The monster finds joy in nature after awakening alone, cold, and afraid. He takes delight in the birds singing and observing his surroundings. The passage shows the monster experiencing humanity and relief from suffering when in nature, highlighting the Romantic view of nature bringing out our humanity. It generates sympathy for the monster by depicting the beauty of nature that the Romantics celebrated.

1. Frankenstein
The Modern Prometheus

2. Title: Nature and
Romanticism
Learning Objectives
We are learning to...
•Understand the significance of Nature in
Romanticism
• Apply this understanding to Chapter 11
S4L: collaboration

3. The Sublime
The Sublime is an overpowering sense of
the greatness and power of nature, which
can be uplifting, awe-inspiring and
terrifying, caused by experience of beauty,
vastness or grandeur (grandness).

4. Watch this programme on Romanticism and
take notes.
http://tinyurl.com/b8x86qw
Then answer the question:

5. Romantic views on
Nature, how does this
influence our reading of
Chapter 11?

6. What did we learn?

7. The overview...
The industrial revolution was crushing the
imagination. The monotonous regime of
production line work was counter to
imagination.
Childhood is important in Romanticism.
Childhood is inseparable from nature and our
early experiences are a source of our
humanity.
Frankenstein was written in the year with no
summer. It was dark and the only light was
from the thunder. Apocalypse?

8. Go through Chapter 11 and
find a quotation/s that you
feels links to nature.

9. How can we link Romantic
views on nature with
emotion/ disturbed mind in
Chapter 11?

10. Skilled work 1. Identify examples of how language is
will used to show nature
2. Annotate with some explanation of
how the Romantic ideas are
presented
Excellent work 1. Develop precise, perceptive analysis
will of how language is used to reveal
the beauty of nature
2. Annotate the text with increasingly
detailed explanations, and
terminology, of Romantic idea are
developed

11. I was delighted when I first
discovered that a pleasant sound,
which often saluted my ears,
proceeded from the throats of the
little winged animals who had
often intercepted the light from
my eyes. I began also to observe,
with greater accuracy, the forms
that surrounded me, and to
perceive the boundaries of the
radiant roof of light which
canopied me.

12. I was delighted when I first
discovered that a pleasant sound,
The monster which often saluted my ears,
takes great joy in proceeded from the throats of the
seeing something little winged animals who had
as simple as often intercepted the light from
birds, which we my eyes. I began also to observe,
might take for with greater accuracy, the forms
granted. that surrounded me, and to
perceive the boundaries of the
radiant roof of light which
canopied me.

13. The monster takes great
joy from nature. His early
experiences of it relieve
the suffering he feels after
his creation. He has gone
from feeling pain on all I was delighted when I first
sides to delight. The discovered that a pleasant sound,
monster’s affinity with
nature makes the reader which often saluted my ears,
feel sympathetic towards proceeded from the throats of the
the monster. The beauty little winged animals who had
of nature was a central
belief for the Romantics often intercepted the light from
and, by placing him in my eyes. I began also to observe,
nature, Mary Shelley is with greater accuracy, the forms
able to show how nature
brings humanity to the that surrounded me, and to
monster; this then places perceive the boundaries of the
the corruption of the radiant roof of light which
monster with
Frankenstein as we see canopied me.
he was benevolent.

14. Homework
Write 3 words in your planner.
Learn how to:
Spell them
What they mean
Write them down

15. It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and
half frightened, as it were, instinctively,
finding myself so desolate. Before I had
quitted your apartment, on a sensation of
cold, I had covered myself with some clothes,
but these were insufficient to secure me from
the dews of night. I was a poor, helpless,
miserable wretch; I knew, and could
distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade
me on all sides, I sat down and wept.