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Context - Coggle Diagram
Context
Fear
Advancement in society/ science
"Horrors of my secret toil"
"Tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay"
"Have lost all soul"
"Dissecting room and the slaughter house"
Negativity/Secrecy
Engaging in an unethical way
Desire to benefit mankind.
Transgress boundaries
Progress in science
The Enlightenment
Narative Structure
Captain Walton
Victor Frankenstein
The Creature
Elizabeth (Walton's sister)
De Laceys
Meet halfway through the novel
Prejudice/ Ailienation
Chapter 11
Blank Slate
Optimism
Vulnerable
Sympathy
No name, yet articulate
Not born a "Monster"
Dehumanising
Rejected by Victor
Framed Narrative
Story told through the eyes of previous narrator
Epistolry Novel
French Revolution 1789
Equality
Working Classes
Opression
Lower classes treated as monstrous
Radical Science & The Enlightenment
Rationally
Creates suffering
Progress
Not dependent on Religion
1816
Re-animated corpse, Galvanism, resurrection men
Shelley visited Switzerland
Dissection/ Anatomical study
Horrifying in England
Murder- Religious beliefs
Biographical Context
Published anonymously
Shelley's parents
Revolutionary Writers
Tensions/ Contradictions
Two ideals
Literary Context
Modern Prometheus
Greek Myth
Willing to challenge
Percy Shelley/ Lord Byron
Paradise Lost
Milton
Battle between hevan and hell
Abandonment
Clues towards Father (William Godwin)
Cold/ Distant
Metaphor for fears in society
Scientific progress