Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley
Yesha Bhatt
Department of English
M. K. Bhavnagar University

Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851)
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin’s mother (Mary
Wollstonecraft) was a philosopher and activist and w...

Frankenstein Or The Modern
Prometheus (1818)
 Frankenstein is the novel that tells the story of Victor
Frankenstein, a yo...

Characters
Victor Frankenstein
Elizabeth
The creature Robert Walton
Henry Clerval

Characters
Captain Robert Walton (Writes
letters)
Mrs. Margaret Saville (Sister of
Robert Walton)
Henry Clerval (Victor’s ...

Brief
Overview
 Robert Walton writes a series of letters to his sister
Margaret and tells her about his dangerous mission...

Brief
Overview
 After his hard-work, finally one night in his lab,
he brought his creation to life.
 When he observed hi...

Brief
Overview
 When he arrived at Geneva he found that Moritz has
been accused for the murder of William. Victor was
fee...

Brief
Overview
The monster vowed revenge, swearing that he will
be with Victor on Victor’s wedding night.
 Victor takes ...

Brief
Overview
 Victor tracks the monster ever northward into the ice.
Victor almost catches up with the monster, but the...

Frankenstein Myth and
Morality
 Study of myths reveals about the mind and character
of people. Myths are symbolic project...

Morality
 Self-realization v/s Existence of God
 Freedom of the creature – death of his creator
 Biblical symbolism - t...

 It is evident from these (cottagers) examples from Frankenstein that the
creature is capable of learning moral and virtu...

The Vitruvian Man
 The Vitruvian Man is a drawing made by
the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci in
about 1490.
The draw...

$Frankenstein – Psychological complexity  Frankenstein's fractured psyche  The monster is a creation of Frankenstein's "f...$

Frankenstein – A Modern
Narcissus
 The myth of Narcissus ( Eco – Prophet -
narcissistic personality disorder )
 Victor e...

Title – Frankenstein – A Modern
Prometheus
 The Creature as Adam - Did I request thee, Maker, from my
clay To mould Me ma...

Frankenstein – Racial Reading
 Belief that one’s own race is superior
 Creature - Grotesque and marginalized one
 Physi...

Female characters in Frankenstein
 Shelley published this anonymously
 Much of the novel has a male voice and female cha...

Female characters in Frankenstein
 Transgression occurs on the thematic level of the novel. Victor Frankenstein, the
bear...

Gothic fiction in Frankenstein
 Gothic fiction is a genre or mode
of literature that combines fiction, horror and
Romanti...

• “Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” – Victor
• “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. ...

• “‘My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me
su...

Frankenstein

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