In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we find that Monster gets a knowledge to think , make an argument, etc. What is the key aspect that makes the monster a real monster ? If he doesn't read books and then what is happening.

1. M. K. Bhavanagar University
Department of English
sem : 2
Name : Ravina P. Parmar
Roll no. : 18
Paper Name : Romantic Literature
Email address : ravinaparmar827@gmail.com
Batch : (2019- 2021)
Date : 24 February 2020
Enrollment No. : 2069108420200031
Topic : How Monster get knowledge from three books
Submitted To : Department of English (MKBU)

2. How Monster get
knowledge :
- He found a leathern
portmanteau
containing several
articles of dress and
some books.
- Language : Which he
acquired at the
cottage.

3. The Sorrows of Young
Werther Paradise Lost Plutarch's lives
Monster reads three books

4. Why she selects these three books
(Possible Reasons)
✍ To make an interesting plot.
✍ Victor’s tragic end.
(Monster’s knowledge became
Tragedy for him.)
✍ She portrays Monster as evil.
✍ Turnining point of the novel.
✍ Evilness of Monster

5. ✍ How books affect his mind and
behavior :
“ I can hardly describe to you
the effect of these books. They
produced in me an infinity of new
images and feelings, that sometimes
raised me to ecstasy, but more
frequently sunk me into the lowest
dejection “. - Monster
👉 Books are disturbing his mind, with
argument.

6. Paradise Lost
● He himself said that : “ Paradise Lost excited different and
far deeper emotions.
● He start hating “ Hateful day when I received life”
● " When I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter fall of
envy rose within me”.
● “ But Where was mine ? He had abandoned me, and in the
bitterness of my heart I cursed him ”
● Camapre himself with Satan and Adam.
● He thoughts about companion like Eve.

7. Plutarch's lives :
● “This book developed new and mightier scenes of action. I
read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or
massacring their species”
● Got high thoughts.
● He gets a knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country,
mighty rivers, and boundless seas.
● He was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon,
and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.

8. The Sorrows of Werther :
Elizabeth
Charlotte
Victor
Monster
Albert
Werther
Both truly love
Don't like each other
Charlotte and
Monster die with
broken heart

9. ● This Novel is written by Goethe in German language and
published in 1774 ( in English 1779 ), presented as a
collection of letters written by Werther.
●
● “ What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Where did I come
from? What was my destination? These questions continually
recurred ”
●
● But I thought Werter himself a more
divine being than I had ever beheld
or imagined;

10. Reference :
● Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. London:
Hughes,Harding,Mavor and Jones, 1818.

11. Thank
you