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Frankenstein critics
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- 1Shelley is the first to invite sympathy for the monster, to allow him to explain the origins of monstrous behaviourPunter
- 2The moral of Frankenstein is ‘treat a person I’ll, and he will become wicked’Percy Shelley
- 3Man was born free and he is everywhere in chainsRousseau
- 4The boundaries between the human and the monster remain blurredWilliams
- 5The monster functions as a parodic mirror image of victorJackson
- 6Freedom comes not in eliminating the shadow but in recognising him in yourself If we see we also have these qualities in ourself we may have more sympathy and feel less tormented by their existence and thus be free from psychological torment.Mahoney
- 7Each night the actors switched roles reinforcing the motif of the doubleDanny Boyle 2011 production
- 8Victor is a narcissistic stand in for Percy He represents Percy’s lack of parental concern through Victor’s abandonment of his creature.Bodalamenti
- 9The absence of independent, self fulfilled women records Mary’s recognition that such a woman does not survive in the world she knewMellor - women
- 10She used knowledge of recent scientific developments to criticise the dangerous implications of the scientific methodMellor - science
- 11A culture that mothers all its members can prevent the making of monsters capable of destroying us allMellor - mothers
- 12The death of Clara, to which Shelley’s carelessness had distinctly contributedHolmes
- 13Fearing sexual contact, Frankenstein wanted the woman dead, through the creature Victor himself is grinningKestner - Doppelgänger, his darker alter ego that portrays the repressed aspects of his psyche.
- 14Monstrous births were to be blamed on the female as results from either excessive or insufficient nourishmentErasmus Darwin
- 15Men are the superior sex due to their 'confidence', thus women need to have the 'confidence' to fight back against their oppressionVirginia Woolf 'A Room of Ones Own'
- 16What Victor really fears is a woman who is sexually liberated, who defies the aesthetic that insists women be small and passive - This is represented through his destruction of the female monster.Mellor - Women sexual liberation
- 17An anxiety with no possibility of escape is the main theme of gothic talesPraz
- 18The fear that there is 'someone or something behind you' is the refusal of the self to acknowledge its darker counterpartMahoney - link to Mariner- A frightful fiend doth close behind him tread
- 19The encounter between Frankenstein and the being almost approaches the expostulations of Caleb and FalklandPercy Shelley
- 20The story is one born of 'the fear of the bourgeois civilisation' - In which the monster represents the emerging industrial proletariat which the upper class are scared of.Moretti
- 21I am not for violent extremes I have no wish to ally myself wight the radicalsMary Shelley after the death of Percy
- 22It will not amuse readers, unless their taste has been deplorably vitiatedCroker - Dedicated his revere to mr Godwin, believing it to have been written by one of his literary family , with the book expressing their insane ideas
- 23We like a story better that is disjointed and irregularAnonymous critic- contrasts to Croker's review
- 24It’s a story about what happens when a man tries to have a baby without a womanMellor - This is significant considering her father brought her up without her mother and she felt as though he neglected her.
- 25The book is not a warning against science at allBennett- it’s about not looking after those around you. Ambition leads him to become isolated from his family and friends. He then does not look after the creature.
- 26The justice is indisputably on his sideNew Yorker Article - Unknown 1824
- 27Romantic traits of Victor are not portrayed positivelyBlumberg
- 28It is a claustrophobic novel. It presents us not with the landscape of the world, but of a single mind and its powerLevine
- 29The rebellion against Victor 'reminds us of the rebellion against the king'Tanabe
- 30The working class were perceived as 'ignorant and vulgar, uneducated and extremely vicious'1830s medical journal
- 31Gothic novels were the result of revolutionary shocks felt throughout EuropeMarquis de sade
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