theme- alienation

Question 1

how is alienation shown through victor?

Answer 1

-favours ambition over his friends and family

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Question 2

explain the Faust Myth?

Answer 2

-created by John Wolfgang Von Goethe, suggesting that a superior individual could throw off the shackles of traditional convention and alienate himself from society

Question 3

what did english romantic poets believe about alienation?

Answer 3

-they believed that only in solitude could they produce great poetry

Question 4

what does isolation lead to in Frankenstein?

Answer 4

• leads to despair, readers realise Victors inquisitive nature caused him emotional and physical peril because he cannot balance his intellectual and social interactions
• evidence: when he leaves home for Ingolstadt, he doesn’t see or correspond with them for 6 years