!! Frankenstein Master Deck Flashcards
(51 cards)
Walton
Failure
“If I fail, you will see me again soon, or never”
Knows when to quit unlike Victor
Walton
Creature
“had the shape of a man… of gigantic stature”
unnatural and inhuman
Walton
Victor
3
“celestial spirit”
“melancholy and desparing”
“beam of benevolance and sweetness”
byronic hero, beautiful but despairing - parallels to creature
Walton
Victor noble
“a noble creature in his better days being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable”
creature repetition
Walton
Victor creature
“creature destoryed by misery”
Walton
Ambition
“Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?”
“slave of passion”
addiction symbolism, hamartia of ambition
Victor
Elizabeth ownership
2
“my more than sister”
“since till death she was to be mine only
women as objects to be owned and gained, incest, taboo
Victor
Elizabeth supernatural
3
“shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp”
“celestial eyes”
“spirit of love”
women to be worshipped - still dehumanised and objectified
Victor
Henry supernatural
3
“noble spirit”
“so full of kindness and tenderness”
“his passion”
similarities to the way Elizabeth is described, link to critic
Victor
Lightning strike
4
“frightful loudness”
“stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak”
“nothing remained but a blasted stump”
“I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed”
first fascination with death and life
Victor
M. Waldman
3
“expressive of the greatest benevolence”
“his voice was the sweetest I had ever heard”
“as he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling a plapable enemy”
appreciates and is in awe of men similar to Elizabeth, but moreso??
Victor
Churchyard
5
“whence… did the principle of life proceed?”
“supernatural enthusiasm”
“observe the natural decay and destruction”
“delicacy of the human feelings”
“change from life to death, and death to life”
distances himself from humanity, being more unnatural, clinical
Victor
Churchyard arrogance
“among so many men… that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret”
Victor preparing to make the creature
“renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption”
philosophical, foreshadowing, supernatural
Elizabeth insecurity
3
“do you love another?”
“but it is your happiness I desire”
“I know you will comply” - Victor
submissive women
Walton to Victor
First impression
2
“noble creature in his better days”
“even now in wreck so attractive and amiable”
from nobility to wreck, fall from grace, bryonic hero
Waltons first impresson of the creature
2
“a being”
“gigantic stature”
detaching creature from humanity, terror
Creature
nature of man
“I was not even of the same nature as man”
isolated, otherness. abject
Walton returning home
“I have consented to return if we are not destroyed”
ambitious, but has learnt boundaries unlike Victor
Creature wanting a companion
2
“rage that burned within me”
“I am malicious because I am miserable”
violent imagery, madness & isolation, women as healing
Victor destroying Creature
“I persued my path towards the destruction of the deamon”
ambiguous ending, liminality man and monster, ambition = doom
Creature
Monster
2
“That I was in reality the monster that I am”
- linked to “I grew alarmed at the wrech I percieved that I had become” (V)
anaphora, parallel syntax
Victor about Elizabeth
3
“Celestial eyes”
“spirit of love”
“shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp”
supernatural language, worship and objectifying
Victor about Justine
4
“exquisitely beautiful”
“she fell into violent hysterics”
“unhappy victim”
“the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts”
women being objectified, being spoken for
