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FRANKESTEIN - Coggle Diagram
FRANKESTEIN
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MAIN THEMES:
- Forbidden knowledge: Walton and Frankenstein try to overcome human limits;
- The double: Dr Frankenstein and the monster are two aspects of the same being.
- Critique of scientific rationalism: the dangers of interfering with the process of nature and modify their course
- Enquiry on the nature of creation, scientific responsibility and social justice - Social injustice
- Education and experience, represented by the monster’s intellectual and emotional development.
THREE NARRATORS
- Frankenstein who told Walton his story
• Walton informs his sister about the meeting with the scientist Frankenstein ( ho was hunting the monster he had created)
- the monster who informs Frankenstein, who informs Walton, who informs his sister
THE TIME OF THE STORY:
- The story is not told chronologically
- introduced by a series of letters written by Walton to his sister
AUTHOR = MARY SHELLEY
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- Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, manages to create a human being,
The monster become a murderer and in the end destroys his creator.
Coleridge’s Rime is a constant presence in the novel --> common theme of the crime against nature (punished)