creatures enlightenment

What does enlightenment of the creature do

Self improvement/ knowledge

What are the 4 books the creature reads

•paradise lost

•the ruins of empire

•the sorrows of young Werther

•victors lab journals

What do victors lab journals do for the creature

He learns how he is created and what science is , Leanne’s what he is and who made him, why people hate him and how he is the only one of his kind (isolation)

What do victors lab journals make the creature feel

Feeling violated -disgusted by his own creation

What does the creature learn from paradise lost

Realises that God creates man making him jealous or self loathing of a natural ‘birth’ , reinforces his isolation as Adam had Eve but he has no one making him identify more to satan than anyone else

What does the creature learn from the ruins of empire

Humans inevitably ruin everything through greed and corruption (Victor) and how humans can achieve amazing things so quickly but also be ruined just as quick as humans are so flawed - questioning the duality of men reinforcing the rise and fall of indigenous people of great power

What does the creature learn from the sorrows of young Werther

Romantic relationships and friendships and how the protagonist can’t even fall in love (just like him). Showing the duality of what he is missing out on but also not really. The demand and desire for love but love isn’t always reciprocated (unrequited)

What is the effect of enlightenment

Agony

Knowledge of the poisoned challace - knowledge only increases sorrow