Name:- Rayjada Mitalba J. Paper:- Romantic Literature
Enrollment No:-2069108420190040. Roll No:- 20
Submitted to:- S.B.Gardi Department of English, Maharaja krushnkumarsinhji University, Bhavnagar.
Frankenstein:-
Mary shalelley:-
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley bron 30 August 1797 she die 1 February 1851. she was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Frankenstein Main character:-
Victor Frankenste.:- in Thedoomedprotagonist and narrator of the main portion of the story.
The Monster: -
The eight-foot-tall, hideously ugly creation of Victor Frankenstein.
Robert Walton -
The Arctic seafarer whose letters open and close Frankenstein .
Elizabeth Lavenza -
An orphan, four to five years younger than Victor, whom the Frankensteins adopt.
Henry Clerval -
Victor’s boyhood friend, who nurses Victor back to health in Ingolstadt.
William Frankenstein -
victor young brother.
Justine Moritz -A young girl adopted into the Frankenstein household while Victor is growing up.
Peasants- A family of peasants, including a blind old man.
Caroline Beaufort – Beaufort's daughter, Victor's mother.
Ernest – Victor's brother. Seven years younger than Victor.
Frankestein Summary(key points):-
1. While searching for a passage through the Arctic, explorer Robert Walton encounters a man adrift on an ice floe, whom he invites onboard. The man reveals himself to be Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who tells the story of his search for his own terrible creation.
2. As a university student, Victor becomes obsessed with discovering the secret of life. In his experimentation, he gathers and assembles body parts in an effort to recreate human life. When he succeeds in bringing the ghastly Creature to life, Victor flees in terror.
3. The Creature roams the world, hiding from humans who reject him out of fear and disgust. By learning to read, he comes to realize the horror of his existence, of which Victor was the cause.
4. The Creature begins to hunt down and kill Victor’s loved ones, including his friend Henry and his wife, Elizabeth. The Creature pursues Victor to the Arctic, where Victor dies on Walton’s ship. The Creature wanders into the Arctic alone after Victor's death, and plans to end his life there.
Themes:-
1. Sublime Nature :- The sublime natural world, embraced by Romanticism as a source of unrestrained emotional experience for the individual, initially offers characters the possibility of spiritual renewal. Mired in depression and remorse after the deaths of William and Justine, for which he feels responsible, Victor heads to the mountains to lift his spirits. Likewise, after a hellish winter of cold and abandonment, the monster feels his heart lighten as spring arrives. The influence of nature on mood is evident throughout the novel, but for Victor, the natural world’s power to console him wanes when he realizes that the monster will haunt him no matter where he goes. By the end, as Victor chases the monster obsessively, nature, in the form of the Arctic desert, functions simply as the symbolic backdrop for his primal struggle against the monster.
2. Man and God:- This subject appears frequently, and sometimes in a mythical as well as religious context. For example, the subtitle of the book is "The Modern Prometheus", alluding to Victor's power and the suffering he endures because of it. The novel must also be taken in the context of the time it was written and the memes common to the Romantic movement; science was new and exciting but dangerous and corrupting, at least according to those who saw it as a force that was diametrically opposed to spirituality. In Shelley's depiction, science "gone mad" is amoral, deluding itself to be Godlike, when in fact its creations lack the divine spark that distinguishes humanity. That is the central tragedy for Adam; he is aware of his own monstrosity and the sin that his creator has committed to create him.
3. Loneliness:- Both Victor and Adam spend considerable amounts of time alone, for various reasons, but often to the same effect; they meditate upon their problems and come to the conclusion that few people, if anyone at all, can help them. Loneliness only serves to corrupt the mind and bring despair, and it is no surprise that the story ends in the Arctic, one of the most desolate places of all, with only Adam and Victor remaining. We might interpret that Adam's loneliness was the offspring of Victor's; but where Victor's loneliness was a choice, brought on by his antisocial tendencies, Adam's was a necessity. In fact, Victor's isolations may have cost him the social skills that would have made the hubris and error of his experiments obvious, lending more weight to the monstrous nature of Adam's existence.
4. Appearances:- Much is made of Adam's hideous appearance - not simply his ugliness but the fact that he stirs an instinctive revulsion in many people who see him (something akin to the "Uncanny Valley" effect that plagues humanoid creations in digital media and robotics). Yet, he thinks, feels emotion, and has ambitions; it is clear that he is indeed "human" in the ethical senses of the word. Yet, he concludes that humans will never be able to accept him because of his appearance; this is a strong commentary upon the value of appearances and the way that we tend to equate beauty with good, and ugliness with evil.
5. Dangerous Knowledge:- The pursuit of knowledge is at the heart of Frankenstein, as Victor attempts to surge beyond accepted human limits and access the secret of life. Likewise, Robert Walton attempts to surpass previous human explorations by endeavoring to reach the North Pole. This ruthless pursuit of knowledg.of the light, proves dangerous, as Victor’s act of creation eventually results in the destruction of everyone dear to him, and Walton finds himself perilously trapped between sheets of ice.
Thank you for watching or reading..
Enrollment No:-2069108420190040. Roll No:- 20
Submitted to:- S.B.Gardi Department of English, Maharaja krushnkumarsinhji University, Bhavnagar.
Frankenstein:-
Mary shalelley:-
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley bron 30 August 1797 she die 1 February 1851. she was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Frankenstein Main character:-
Victor Frankenste.:- in Thedoomedprotagonist and narrator of the main portion of the story.
The Monster: -
The eight-foot-tall, hideously ugly creation of Victor Frankenstein.
Robert Walton -
The Arctic seafarer whose letters open and close Frankenstein .
Elizabeth Lavenza -
An orphan, four to five years younger than Victor, whom the Frankensteins adopt.
Henry Clerval -
Victor’s boyhood friend, who nurses Victor back to health in Ingolstadt.
William Frankenstein -
victor young brother.
Justine Moritz -A young girl adopted into the Frankenstein household while Victor is growing up.
Peasants- A family of peasants, including a blind old man.
Caroline Beaufort – Beaufort's daughter, Victor's mother.
Ernest – Victor's brother. Seven years younger than Victor.
Frankestein Summary(key points):-
1. While searching for a passage through the Arctic, explorer Robert Walton encounters a man adrift on an ice floe, whom he invites onboard. The man reveals himself to be Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who tells the story of his search for his own terrible creation.
2. As a university student, Victor becomes obsessed with discovering the secret of life. In his experimentation, he gathers and assembles body parts in an effort to recreate human life. When he succeeds in bringing the ghastly Creature to life, Victor flees in terror.
3. The Creature roams the world, hiding from humans who reject him out of fear and disgust. By learning to read, he comes to realize the horror of his existence, of which Victor was the cause.
4. The Creature begins to hunt down and kill Victor’s loved ones, including his friend Henry and his wife, Elizabeth. The Creature pursues Victor to the Arctic, where Victor dies on Walton’s ship. The Creature wanders into the Arctic alone after Victor's death, and plans to end his life there.
Themes:-
1. Sublime Nature :- The sublime natural world, embraced by Romanticism as a source of unrestrained emotional experience for the individual, initially offers characters the possibility of spiritual renewal. Mired in depression and remorse after the deaths of William and Justine, for which he feels responsible, Victor heads to the mountains to lift his spirits. Likewise, after a hellish winter of cold and abandonment, the monster feels his heart lighten as spring arrives. The influence of nature on mood is evident throughout the novel, but for Victor, the natural world’s power to console him wanes when he realizes that the monster will haunt him no matter where he goes. By the end, as Victor chases the monster obsessively, nature, in the form of the Arctic desert, functions simply as the symbolic backdrop for his primal struggle against the monster.
2. Man and God:- This subject appears frequently, and sometimes in a mythical as well as religious context. For example, the subtitle of the book is "The Modern Prometheus", alluding to Victor's power and the suffering he endures because of it. The novel must also be taken in the context of the time it was written and the memes common to the Romantic movement; science was new and exciting but dangerous and corrupting, at least according to those who saw it as a force that was diametrically opposed to spirituality. In Shelley's depiction, science "gone mad" is amoral, deluding itself to be Godlike, when in fact its creations lack the divine spark that distinguishes humanity. That is the central tragedy for Adam; he is aware of his own monstrosity and the sin that his creator has committed to create him.
3. Loneliness:- Both Victor and Adam spend considerable amounts of time alone, for various reasons, but often to the same effect; they meditate upon their problems and come to the conclusion that few people, if anyone at all, can help them. Loneliness only serves to corrupt the mind and bring despair, and it is no surprise that the story ends in the Arctic, one of the most desolate places of all, with only Adam and Victor remaining. We might interpret that Adam's loneliness was the offspring of Victor's; but where Victor's loneliness was a choice, brought on by his antisocial tendencies, Adam's was a necessity. In fact, Victor's isolations may have cost him the social skills that would have made the hubris and error of his experiments obvious, lending more weight to the monstrous nature of Adam's existence.
4. Appearances:- Much is made of Adam's hideous appearance - not simply his ugliness but the fact that he stirs an instinctive revulsion in many people who see him (something akin to the "Uncanny Valley" effect that plagues humanoid creations in digital media and robotics). Yet, he thinks, feels emotion, and has ambitions; it is clear that he is indeed "human" in the ethical senses of the word. Yet, he concludes that humans will never be able to accept him because of his appearance; this is a strong commentary upon the value of appearances and the way that we tend to equate beauty with good, and ugliness with evil.
5. Dangerous Knowledge:- The pursuit of knowledge is at the heart of Frankenstein, as Victor attempts to surge beyond accepted human limits and access the secret of life. Likewise, Robert Walton attempts to surpass previous human explorations by endeavoring to reach the North Pole. This ruthless pursuit of knowledg.of the light, proves dangerous, as Victor’s act of creation eventually results in the destruction of everyone dear to him, and Walton finds himself perilously trapped between sheets of ice.
Thank you for watching or reading..
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