Frankenstein Flashcards

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Walton VS Victor

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the both seek to explore the unknown in hopes of receiving glory; think they are entitled to get information no one else has ever gotten before; Victor is successful in discovering what he is seeking and it causes him to go mad; Walton never reaches what he wishes to explore

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Victor VS Creature

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they become similar, because they feel the need to destroy each other; they live for the destruction of the other; power struggle

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Creature VS Walton

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walton hears a lot about the creature but only the version that is edited by Victor; he is warned that he should not trust the creature, because the creature will twist words to make Walton side with him; Walton does not kill the creature like he is asked

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Gothic Literature

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Genre of literature with death fiction horror romance
castles (ruined or haunted), melancholy location, dramatic, or religious settings, or supernatural
characters- passion driven, villain/hero, curious heroin that needs rescuing, heroes true identity revealed by end of novel
nature can be destructive or restorative
start of sci-fi// scientific truths

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Science VS Nature

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using science to go against nature; science isolation is bad, but nature solitude is good

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Adam

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why was i created? both abandoned /\ happy ending for adam– gets a companion

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Satan

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people stay away, because they are scared, forced to seek revenge, satan is fine being alone, but the creature desires company

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Milton

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seeks to go where no one has gone before in his poem; controversial; brags– thinks he is the only one who can write about these things

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Pride/Glory

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Walton and Frankenstein seek glory in their discoveries; victor has too much pride to stop his studies; too much pride to go to jail in place of Justine

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Revenge

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Creature gets revenge for abandoning and not creating a female, victor tries to get revenge for the loss of lives of his family members

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Solitude

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Victor forces himself to be alone by fixating himself on his studies; he is alone in science and is miserable, when he is alone in nature he feels restored; The creature is forced to be alone and feels miserable so he makes Victor be alone too by killing all of his family members

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Acquisition of Knowledge

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Walton and Frankenstein constantly seek more knowledge; creature acquires knowledge through observation

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