Prose Conetxt

Question 1

Biblical ideas on women

Answer 1

• puritan doctrine and the teachings of St Paul speak about female interchangeability and subservience
• the idea of women being a ‘vessel’ mimics the teachings of St Peter - co-opting how he speaks of treating women well due to their weakness
• Elizabeth and Caroline are interchangeable and embody the idealised female figure

Question 2

John Jack Rousseaus “Emile’

Answer 2

• a tutor raises and educates an orphan, teaching him the ideal natural education as rousseau feels is needed by humans. This Formulates an ideal compassionate human.
  -In context of the novel: the monster begins in the woods as a ‘noble savage’ drawn to nature and compassion and only when he is abandoned does he lose an educator to develop his innate sense of compassion, creating a societally deemed malevolent monster.
  -He thinks of taking in a child to raise it in his agricultural/natural housing as he had taught himself.
  -Conversely, whilst Frankenstein has an education of caring people they teach him misguided science, untempered with benevolence and humility.

Question 3

When was emile written

Answer 3

1762

Question 4

What and when was Kane’s essay

Answer 4

• dare to know
• 1785

Question 5

Rime of the ancient mariner

Answer 5

-eerie tale of a mariner who brings a curse upon himself and his crew after killing an albatross.
- Frankenstein’s obsession with science and playing God ultimately leads to destruction Similarly, the mariner defies nature by killing the albatross, bringing suffering upon himself and his crew. Both characters suffer as a result of their hubris.
-The Rime portrays nature as both beautiful and vengeful. The mariner’s crime against nature (killing the albatross) leads to supernatural punishments.
-Frankenstein also emphasizes the power of nature. Victor often seeks solace in nature, but nature also punishes him—his creature is formed unnaturally, disrupting the balance of life. ‘I will kill no albatross’ ‘deadly weight yet hanging around my neck’

Question 6

john Locke: essay concerning human understanding (1689):

Answer 6

-created the theory of tabula rasa (blank slate) which implied our upbringing/expeirences in society dictate out characters.

-This underlines the experience of the monster as he is a bare person with no genetic makeup, thus a product solely of society. ‘
-When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness’ SAME W ROSSEAU

Question 7

When was an essay concerning human understanding

Answer 7

1689

Question 8

Walstonecrafts a vindication of the rights of woman

Answer 8

-1792
- argued women are as capable as men but as socially conditioned through education and values into subservience
- both novels are siutated in the context of her first wave feminism ideas

Question 9

Elizabeth’s death

Answer 9

-symbolic of ‘the nightmare’ by Henry fueselli
- aesthetisied suffering

Question 10

Foucaultstheory of language

Answer 10

• 1969 essay ‘the archaeology of knowledge’ equates language and thus truth to not be a neutral thing but completely defined by who holds the power
• true in the sense of the framed narrative, gileads appropriation of religious rhetoric

Question 11

Goodrebel

Answer 11

• introduces a nuanced idea of rebellion as a moral endeavour for an ethical purpose

Question 12

When was laugh oof the medusa written

Answer 12

1975