key quotes

Question 1

prejudice of human nature

Answer 1

• daemon
• wretched
• ugly
• ogre
• some fled some attacked
• generously bruised by stones
• missile weapons

Question 2

creature’s fall into evil

Answer 2

• I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel
• I was benevolent and good, misery made me a fiend
• I am a miserable wretch

Question 3

escape to natural world

Answer 3

• swelled with something like joy
• vast river of ice
  = metaphor of unstoppable glacial force of immense power
  = sublime superiority of nature vs man= makes man feel small
• ardent curiosity

Question 4

walton letters

Answer 4

• ardent curiosity
• dangerous mysteries of the ocean
• epistolary form of letters= sense of distance due to glaciers etc

Question 5

creation of C

Answer 5

• dreary night
  = foreboding tone of gothic trope through pathetic fallacy
• instruments of life
  = clinical lang echo mechanic view of Galvani or Darwin
• uncanny parody of birth= grotesque and unnatural imagery
  = gothic fear of the other

Question 6

level 5 notes

Answer 6

• POV1= Rousseau view that people are born innocent and pure reflected by C= he is good but has been corrupted by rejection of mankind
  = gothic “fiend” contrast to “benevolent”
  = tragic fall of innocence
• POV2= moral ambiguity of C= his narrative is embedded in layers of storytelling= question reliability of narrative= is C manipulating reader and V into sympathy?
• POV3= Shelley influenced by radical politics of parents= C’s emotional development is a metaphor for the voiceless and oppressed= ambiguous moral framing= C as a victim or villain