Mythological approach in "Frankenstein" That you will never forget.

1. Mythological approach
IN FRANKENSTEIN
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Kaushal Desai
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2. What is Myth?
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3. Significance of myth
• Myth are symbolic projections of people’s hope, values, fears
& aspirations.
• Mythos is a worldview-based traditional story or body
of mythology.
• In reality myth reflects more profound reality.
• Study of myth reveals about the mind and character of
people.
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4. Myth of Prometheus
• Greek Mythology
• Prometheus created man and taught everything
• Zeus kept fire from mankind and gave it to mankind
• Give hope to the world
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5. Myth of Narcissus
• A tale told by Roman poet Ovid
• Echo, a young girl falls in love with Narcissus
• He was the son of a river
• Narcissus unable to leave the beauty of his
refection, and because of curse he died.
• Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a
fixation with oneself.
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6. Myth of Paradise Lost
• As a Christian myth
• John Milton takes this from Bible, Chapter 1
“Genesis”
• A long epic in English literature
• A tale that says, ‘fall of mankind’
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7. ‘Frankenstein’ &
Mythology…
• Shelley incorporated a number of different sources
into her work
• Promethean myth from Ovid
• John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’
• S.T. Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient mariner’
• Victor Frankenstein’s innovative work of the Titan in
creating humans as he break rules of Nature
• The novel also uses subtitle ‘The modern
Prometheus’
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8. ‘Frankenstein’ &
Mythology…
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9. Interpretation of myth
• Myth-past, present is what??
• A writer tries to fit the past in the present. In present the situation is
different.
• Is it the repetition of the history-past? In a new way?
• Study of social ‘structure and the texture of the novel. Use of myth is
retelling the story …
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10. Quotes about myth
“Myth are public dreams, Dreams are private myth.”
~ Joseph Campbell
“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession it is a inflection.”
~ Roland Barthes
“Myth convert history into nature.”
~ Roland Barthes
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11. Conclusion
Hence one can say that in every culture has their own
myth and here Marry Shelley has presented it very proper
way and writes Sci-Fi that takes the charm of the novel a
higher one.
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