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Ambition and Power - Coggle Diagram
Ambition and Power
Power of the creator
Frankenstein
abused power of creator - attempting God like position
“Trembling with passion; tore to passion the thing on which I was engaged”
no longer able to create only destroy
Paradise Lost epigraph equates Frankenstein to God, creature to Adam ??
this is inverted when creature exclaims " I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" - Victor is a perverse God
power abused so creation put into question - Victor looses power as creature acquires knowledge - creature well-spoken - more lines of dialogue indicative of more power
"do your duty to me" - moral implications of creation - Franknestein ignored - downfall of creature
NLMG
those with knowledge abusing power at expense of those without
lack of power of students
Consequence of ambition - onset of guilt
Frankenstein
refusal to create second monster, attempt to distance himself
sense of regret - telling Walton to not do the same - but Walton ignoring this message shows hoe ambition will always win over benevolence
gothic setting - conveys horror of story
after creation - hallucinatory images - perversity of creation affect on him "I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death"
use of singular "I" pronoun shows how he alone is to blame - his actions directly creating direction
NLMG
feeling of revulsion, but ignoring morality, continuing to use students for personal gain
blaming immoral actions on post-war England as attest to justify societal loss of morals
Scientific ambition and societal morality
NLMG
accepted by society, but pushed aside. loss of morals
Research into stem cells - ethical debates about what should be considered human - use of clones demonstrates conflict over what should be granted moral status - if science going too far
clones seen as "shadowy objects"
uncertain and not completely real - "shadowy" suggestive of liminal space between being human and not human (ref. monster)
"reared", "test tubes" scientific and animalistic language dehumanises students