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"Frankenstein" and Overreaching - Coggle Diagram
"Frankenstein" and Overreaching
What is overreaching?
overreaching is getting, achieving something that goes beyond human or nature limits
very important concept during romanticism
mytological overreachers
Icarus
Prometeus
"Prometeus Unbound", P.B. Shelley
"Frankenstein" subtitle is: "or the modern Prometheus"
Ulysses
Adam and Eve
overreachers seen as dramatic characters, able to go beyond but miserable because of the greatness achieved
The overreachers in
Frankenstein
(
"Overreaching.pdf"
on Classroom)
Doctor Frankenstein
Manages to give life to something unnatural, artificial, and so goes against Nature
His overreaching is divided in 3 phases
Obsession and desperate researching of knowledge (
Extract from Chapter 4
)
Spends two years of his life only studying and crafting, forgetting about his health and family
Desecrates without esistation various corps
Realization of his mistake and repentance (
Extract from Chapter 5
)
scared by his own creation
Understands how much time and health was sacrificed into giving life to an inanimate body, mostruos and dangerous
Tries to escape and forget what he did
Consequences of the overreach
Giving life to a creature whose feel pain, suffer and lonliness
The creature will be rejected from society although feeling human emotion and having human sense (
Extract from chapter 16
,
Extract from Chapter 10
,
Extract from Chapter 13
)
Ethical problem
The creature, because of his pain and thirst of revenge, kills Frankenstein's family and ruins his life (
Extract from Chapter 10
Extract from Chapter 17, pg2 of the file
)
Captain Walton
wants to reach America through the North Pole
it goes beyond human limits, considered impossible
Wants to risk his life and his men's for reaching his goal
Doesn't want to listen to his mariners and his sister
After hearing Frankenstein's story, understands his limits and sails back home
Only overreacher to save, cure himself
The creature
Hopes and tries to be accepted into human society (Extract from
Chapter 10
)
Impossible because of his nature
Doesn't stand being rejected, rebels (
Extract from Chapter 17, pg2 of the file
)
Tries to overcome his Creator (dr. Frankenstein)
Tries to rule, hostage the doctor
asks for a partner, menaces Frankenstein if the man denies the request
Can't stand seeing his creator dying, his life become meaningless
Religious message (?)