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Frankenstein

Frankenstein. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft. William Godwin. Early feminist Concerned with women’s dependency on men, inferior educations, inability to work, unable to speak minds. Philosophical Anarchism

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Frankenstein

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  1. Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  3. Mary Wollstonecraft William Godwin Early feminist Concerned with women’s dependency on men, inferior educations, inability to work, unable to speak minds Philosophical Anarchism Government = Corrupting force Perpetuates ignorance Rendered powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge.

  4. Her Life before Shelley • 1797 Born in London to • influential parents • Mother died ten days later • Father had great expectations for Mary • Lived exciting but sorrowful childhood • Propensity for Depression

  5. Percy Shelley

  6. Her Life with Shelley • Ran away with Percy at age of 16 • Moved to Lake Geneva, Switzerland • Shelley’s wife drowns herself; • Shelley marries Mary • 1816-Writes and publishes Frankenstein • Pregnant 7 times, only one child survives • 1822-Shelley is drowned in a boating accident

  7. Geneva, Switzerland

  8. University College, Oxford

  9. Her Life after Shelley • Worked in Paris as a journalist • Surrounded by literary figures • Felt punished by society • Invalid at age 48 • 1851-Died of brain tumor

  10. Frankenstein The Modern Prometheus

  11. Verisimilitude • Translated from the Latin, • “life’s appearance” • Use real places and real things • Leave out scientific details • to make book seem plausible

  12. Shelley uses a framed narrative; Story within a story Mary Shelley Walton Frankenstein Creation

  13. MajorThemes • Ignorance is bliss/ Dangerous Knowledge • Monstrous side of Man/Injustice towards Outsiders • Loneliness/ Need for Companionship • Scientific & Medical Ethics • Nature vs. Nurture • Feminism/Marriage/Gender • Sublime Nature-Influence of Nature on Man

  14. Romanticism and the Gothic • Late 18th, early 19th centuries • Emphasis on individual, subjective, irrational, imaginative • Appreciation of nature • Preoccupation with the hero • Importance of self-reflection • Macabre, mysterious, fantastic, or violent incidents • Atmosphere of irrational violence or decay • Settings-castles, monasteries, trapdoors, dungeons • Medieval themes

  15. Prometheus Titan in Greek mythology “the one who thinks in advance” He symbolizes belief in humanity even against divine decree; Prometheus symbolizes the creative thinker’s stubborn refusal to yield to fate.

  16. Prometheus created man out of clay, outwitting Zeus for the benefit of mortals, which lead Zeus to withhold from them the gift of fire. Prometheus stole it from the heavens and brought it to man creating civilization. Consequently, Zeus sent Pandora as a punishment for mortals. Prometheus was bound to a rock in the Caucasus, where his liver was torn from his body by an eagle- only to grow back every day, until Hercules killed the bird with an arrow.

  17. without ice Without Ice

  18. The Northwest Passage Water routes through the Arctic Archipelago, N Canada, & along the northern coast of Alaska between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Even though the explorers of the 16th century demonstrated that the American continents were a true barrier to a short route to East Asia, there still remained hope that a natural passage would be found leading directly through the barrier. The search for the Northwest Passage continued even though at that time such a route had no commercial value. Proof of the existence of the passage in the mid-1800s only revealed how difficult its transit would be, and it was not until the early 20th century that the first transit was accomplished.

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