1. FRANKENSTEIN MODERN PROMETHEUS
NAME :- SHEIKH NUSRATJAHA R.
SEM:- 2
ROLL NO. :- 26
ENROLLMENT NO. :- 2069108420180047
EMAIL ID :- nususheikh1@gmail.com
SUBJECT :- PAPER NO:- 5 ROMANTIC LITERATURE
BATCH :- 2017-2019
SUBMITTED TO :- DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH , MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI
, BHAVNAGAR.
2. Mary Shelley (London, 30 August 1797 February 1, 1851) was an
English novelist, essayist and biographer. She is the author of the
gothic novel Frankenstein, published in 1818. Edited editions of the
poems of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Romantic poet and
philosopher. She was the daughter of the philosopher and feminist
Mary Wollstonecraft and the forerunner of the political philosopher
William Godwin. Mary Wollstonecraft died ten days after birth of Mary
who grew up with her father. When Mary was three years her father was
married to Mary Jane Clairmont. She provides rich and informal
education, to encourage them to adhere to her politics. In 1814, Mary
fell in love with Percy. They married in 1816. In 1822 her husband was
drowned while crossing the Bay of La Spezia. A year later, Mary
returned to England where she devoted herself entirely to her writing
career. she spent the last decade of her life in the disease, probably
caused by a brain tumour, which kills the age of 53 in 1851.
Mary
Shelley
3. PLOT
Frankenstein is a great scientist who decided to
attend Ingolstadt , a university in Germany.
Here he shows his qualities and decides to combine
in animation with life.
He succeed in his plan.
He leaves the creature because he is disgusted.
Stolen his personal diary , the monster find the
doctor in France
The monster killed William, Victor's brother.
When they meet the monster confesses his misfact
and supply the doctor to create an other being like
him, a "woman" .
4. The doctor promises he would be able, but in the end he
renounces.
Frankenstein accepts to marry Elizabeth.
The monster kills Elizabeth.
The doctor wants to revenge his wife and follows the
monster.
He arrives even to north pole.
Here he is saved by his friend Walton.
He manages to narrate his story but he dead because of
temperature and fatigue.
5. SETTING
The novel is settled in different places:
From Switzerland to north Pole.
From homes, university to cemetery.
Both close and open places.
6. THEMES
Dangerous Knowledge Both Frankenstein and victor
attempt to surge beyond human limits. But this
knowledge is really dangerous. Infect the doctor is
driven to death by his creature. And Walton too is
trapped between sheets of ice. So he gave up his
mission because he saw the unhappy end of his friend.
7. Sublime Natural
Sublime natural world, embraced by Romanticism,
initially offers characters the possibility of spiritual
renewal. Victor heads the mountains to lift his spirit.
The influence of nature on mood is evident, except
for victor who realizes that the monster will hunt him
forever, infect even the monster feels spring.in the
end artic desert acts as the symbolic backdrop for his
primal struggle against the monster.
8. Monstrosity
This theme pervades the entire novel. Monstrosity of the
monster result from his grotesque appearance and from
the unnatural manner of his creation ( amicsog stolen body
parts) . He is a product of a dark and supernatural working.
It is only the most literal of the monstrous entities in the
novel. For example the knowledge that Victor used to
create the monster. Victor himself is a kind of monster
because his ambition and selfishness alienate him from
society. (ordinary outside while monster inside). The novel
is a monstrous combination of different voices, texts and
tenses.
9. Texts
Frankenstein is a over flew of texts:
letters, notes, books, nestled inside each other or
simply quoted. Paradise lost fits inside the monster's
story. The profusion of texts serves as concrete
manifestations of characters attitudes an emotions.
Language plays an enormous role in monster's
development. By hearing he learns to speak and read
which enables him to understand the manner of his
creation(as described in Victor's journal).
10. Secrecy
It is secrecy who combines Victor and the monster.
The doctor conceives of science as a mystery to be
probed and its secrets once discovered must be
jealously guarded. Victor obsession is shrouded in
secrecy until! he talks to Walton. The monster is
forced to seclusion. Walton serves as the final
confessor for both and the tragic relationship
becomes immortalized in Walton's letters.
