Frankenstein AO5

Marilyn Butler

“Victor is a failed Romantic; his tragedy lies in his isolation.

Anne K Mellor

"The monster is not born evil, but made so by the rejection he suffers."

Mary Poovey

"The absence of a female creator is Shelley's warning against patriarchal hubris."

Chris Baldick

"Frankenstein warns of the dangers of science without conscience.”

Anne K Mellor

"The monster is the ultimate outsider, shaped more by rejection than by nature."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Treat somebody ill and he will become wicked.

'Divide a social being from society and you impose upon on him.. malevolent and selfishness'.

Marie Mulvey

'The modern prometheus, Victor is an over-reacher'.

'Who transgresses boundaries between the human and the divine'.

Ellen Moers

"The book embodies a male fantasy of creation'.

David Punter

The creature's compassion is 'his most humane quality'

David Punter (sin)

Victor’s main sin is not creation, it’s his failure to take responsibility

Hindel

Victor displays an innocent desire to penetrate the secrets of heaven.