Character
3 key moments for Victor Frankenstein
When the monster kills William – This key moment pushes Victor and his family into anger, which creates the hate that victor has for the monster in the first 2 chapters. “I expected this reception,” said the daemon. “All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!”
When victor gets threatened to make a second monster – The monster and victor share words and the monster threatens victor to make him a mate or companion. “make me a mate or I will destroy you.”
When victor destroys the second monster – As victor creates the second monster, he realises he was doing the same 3 years ago; which makes victor look over his past. “I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it with the bitterest remorse.”
Key Traits in gothic fiction
A God Complex – The key sign that Victor displays God Complex is when he creates the monster; as he wanted to create life. “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation,”
A distressing event in earlier life – When victor was a child, his mother Caroline, passed away. “I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil“
A flaw in their moral compass – A moral compass is a personal natural feeling that says what is right and wrong. Victor agrees to make the master a friend, which is morally correct in victors eyes. Then he got scared and destroyed it. “I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise to creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged”
A moment of recognition or revelation – When victor realises what’s scientifically possible. “I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being.”
Setting
3 Key Settings
- Frankensteins’ home in Lake Geneva
- Frankensteins’ University in Bavaria
- Chamonix in France
Frankensteins’ home in Lake Geneva – “My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.”
This metaphor explains how the monster has almost no memory, and how isolated the monster is from everything as he has no memory or connection with anything or anyone. As he tries and tries to make friends with humans, the monster becomes overwhelmed with despair and loneliness, leading him to take a war upon makind.
Frankensteins’ University
Soon after monster disappeared after Victor had created it, Victors Father wrote to him to try and get him to come home as His brother had been strangled to death. When he arrives home, he sees the monster in a flash of lightning and decides to head to the mountains. Here the grief and anger that Victor experience lead him to isolate himself and head to go and kill the monster. This evidence shows how isolation is destructive and how it is one of the main themes in the book.
Chamonix
When Victor follows the monster to the alps in France, he is on a quest to kill. Here, both the monster and Victor seek isolation in their times of difficulty so the monster resorts to a place of sanctuary and solitude. “[The mountain] elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it”
Hey Oliver,
Looking at your work, I have figured out why you are confused about the post changing! It looks like you are working from an old blog post on one of my previous blogs for this course.
I will email you the correct link but this will be why it looks like the questions have changed. Some of this can be transferred to the work we have been doing so not all is lost!
Mrs. P