Frankenstein

Alchemy

• False chemistry

• Attempting to create gold and achieve immortality

• Romantic perspective

Luigi Galvani

• Uses electricity to contract the muscles of severed frog legs

Guy giving a lecture

• Quotes the ancient teachers of alchemy

He suffers from no superstitions - victor has experience a lot of the world'

Page 53 - figured out the secret

• absolutely consumed by hubris

compares himself to god ~ lucifer

• Mi Ka El - Who is like god?

Chapter 5 - creating the monster

• Immediate recognition of evil

• Beautiful yet incomplete - “in the image” of Victor

Dream - Elizabeth turns into the rotting corpse of his mother

• Victor has usurped the power of motherhood; he created artificial life, distorting the beauty of conception

Had you nurtured me like God nurtured Adam, I would be okay

• The creature was outcast w/o his own actions

Tabula rasa - blank slate

The creature was born fully capable and conscient

• If i am able to speak well, it can make up for my ugly face

irony

• The creature becomes an anarchist - society is fascist and needs to be destroyed

• Mary puts her father’s philosophy in the mind and the mouth of a murderous monster

Chris’s Question

• Spongebob just wants to be everyone’s friend

Humanity focuses on the superficial

• Language was the key - it should be the key’

The creature is still a monster. don’t forget that

• Literary theory ~ Marxism

• Argues that there are only victors and victims

The creature

• Motivated by goodness and the

• Failures:

  • Rejected by his creator

  • Rejected by the village

  • Rejected by the Dulacey’s

• Acts in revenge

• Always thinks to Victor