ao3 Flashcards
(13 cards)
F - what was Mary Shelley’s dream?
she had a dream about a scientist animating a creature from body parts
F - What is Roussseau’s noble savage?
the idea that man is born pure, and society corrupts him.
F - what is John Locke’s tabula rasa?
the blank state, the idea that every life starts the same.
F - who is Luigi Galvani?
introduced ideas of galvanism through using electricity to animate frogs
F - who is Giovanni Aldini?
Luigi Galvani’s nephew, continuasse his work of galvanism and attempted to use it on human limbs, most well known was the reanimation of a man (George Forster) who had been hanged.
F - What do London, Oxford and Inglostadt represent in F?
education and culture.
F - what is Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Sailor committed a crime of killing an albatross, and was forced to live an eternity with the albatross hung around his neck, ideas of eternal suffering
F - What is John Milton’s Paradise Lost?
a retelling of the story of Adam and Eve (genesis), Victor resembles Satan, with a thirst for forbidden knowledge, whilst the creature resembles Adam
F - What is Frankenstein’s other title and what’s the significance?
The modern prometheus.
Prometheus was a figure in GM who stole fire from the Gods to give life, his punishment was to be chained up and have an eagle eternally torment him by eating his liver daily (as his liver regenerates)
HMT - story of Rachel and Leah in genesis 30?
Rachel could not give Jacob children, so she made her maid, Bilhah, to bear them for her.
HMT - what does Gilead mean in the bible?
“The land of the stolen daughters”
HMT - What did the Gestapo do?
The Gestapo were the secret police of Nazi Germany, keeping an eye on the citizens and reporting anything possible.
F - who were Mary Shelley’s parents?
William Godwin - wrote ‘an Enquiry concerning political justice’
Mary Woolstoncraft - Wrote ‘a Vindication of the rights of Women’, she was a Proto-feminist, and was one of the earlier writers discussing women’s rights.
