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Frankenstein

Frankenstein . Or, The Modern Prometheus. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Born: August 30 th , 1797 Died: February 1 st , 1851 1818 Frankenstein 1823 Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca 1833 The Last Man 1837 Falkner.

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Frankenstein

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  1. Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus

  2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Born: August 30th, 1797 Died: February 1st, 1851 1818 Frankenstein 1823 Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca 1833 The Last Man 1837 Falkner

  3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) (1759 – 1797) (1756 - 1836)

  4. Timeline 1797 Mother dies ten day after giving birth 1799 & 1806 Mary & Fanny listen to Samuel Taylor Coleridge recite “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 1801 Godwin marries Mary Jane Clairmont - Charles (6 yrs) and Jane (Claire) (4 yrs) 1811 &1812 Sent to Scotland; Meets Percy Shelley on one of her trips home 1814 Scandalous affair with Shelley; leave for France with stepsister, Claire, and Shelley; Disowned; travel through Europe 1815 Return to England, near London 1816 Travel to Lake Geneva, Switzerland to Villa Diodati; Lord Byron John Polidori, Claire, Mary and Shelley write ghost stories. Frankenstein is born.

  5. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1813 Queen Mab 1818 Ozymandias 1820 Prometheus Unbound 1792 - 1882

  6. Galvanism A Galvanized Corpse. Harpers Weekly. 1836

  7. 1780 -1790 Luigi Galvani & Allesandro Volta • “Animal Electricity” – Electricity applied to the body tissue of dissected animals produces muscle movement. • 1791 Galvani believes electrical fluid emanates from the brain. • Life is identified with electricity from an organic source, like a battery.

  8. Natural Philosophers Cornelius Agrippa: Three Books of Occult Philosophy; On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Arts and Sciences: An Invective Declamation (1530); On the Nobility and Superiority of the Female Sex Paracelsus: Great Surgery Book (1530) Albertus Magnus: est. study of nature as legitimate science within Christianity

  9. Literary Allusions in Frankenstein The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Paradise Lost by John Milton Plutarch Lives The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Ruins of Empires by Volney

  10. Purpose of Literary Allusion Literary allusion creates a comparison of the characters and ideas presented in the text. By alluding to work familiar to everyone, all connotations in one is transferred to the other. A great deal can be expressed in a title, character or epigram

  11. Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1667

  12. Satan rebels against God, is thrown out of heaven with his army, and tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, which gets them thrown out of Eden, hence Paradise Lost.

  13. Book 10: 743-5 Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

  14. Romantic Comments by William Blake on Milton’s Satan: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling. And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire. The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, and the Governor or Reason is called Messiah. And the original Archangel, or possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is called the Devil or Satan, and his children are called Sin & Death. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.” [From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, ca. 1790–93]

  15. Myth of Prometheus Prometheus, a wise Titan, fought with Zeus against other Titans. He created man to walk upright and gave him fire. He tricked Zeus to take offering of bones and fat, leaving meaty part for man. Zeus stole man’s fire in anger, which Prometheus returned. Zeus created Pandora to punish man, and chained Prometheus to a rock in Caucasus Mountains and had an eagle tear at his liver day and night. Freed by Heracles and sacrifice of Centaur. Scott Eaton Prometheus = “Forethought”

  16. The Legacy of Frankenstein The Bride of Frankenstein The Curse of Frankenstein Blackenstein Ghost of Frankenstein The Bride of Frankenstein Young Frankenstein Frankenstein Unbound

  17. Adaptations More differences than similarities 1920 Rise in Eugenics – Nature vs. Nurture – Frankenstein’s monster is given brain of a criminal. Monster communicates with guttural grunts and moans.

  18. Topics in Novel Dangerous Knowledge Impact of Nature Ambition Isolation Loss of Innocence Responsibility

  19. Sublime Longinus: "On the Sublime" Edmund Burke: "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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