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Diego Arreguin, Chad Sievert, Grant Shafer

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Diego Arreguin, Chad Sievert, Grant Shafer

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Victor is a perfect example of a Byronic hero. Victor has a thirst for knowledge for the supernatural and becomes quite obsessed with his discoveries so much so that it affects his health. “My cheeks have grown pale with study, and my person had become emancipated with confinement.” Victor is saying that he had developed such an unhealthy obsession with his work that it was affecting his well being.

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The villain is the monster that was created by Victor. He was brought to life and then left to figure everything out about life by himself. This as well as observing certain parts of human nature like love and belonging made him desperate for these things and led him to swear on getting revenge on Victor for giving him nothing but a horrible life

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Elizabeth was a prime example of innocence, as she was always so loving and happy towards Victor. When the monster kills her, she screams knowing she can’t do anything about it. Victor comes in and sees her laying on the bed, questioning why he is here to “relate the destruction of the best hope and the purest creature on earth?”.(Page 89) These words from Victor state how innocent and happy she saw her, she is pure and loves him.

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Victor was inspecting every single corner of the building and found nothing. He heard a scream coming from one of the rooms and it was Elizabeth screaming. Elizabeth was physically very attractive in Victor’s eyes and in that encounter with the monster, she was helpless and needed rescuing. (Page 89)

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Victor represents ice, or knowledge as he is the creator of the monster and spent so much time working on this. On the other hand, the monster represents fire because he is evil and out to kill to gain revenge on humans. (Page 35) William is discovered dead while the monster is the culprit.

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When the monster requested that Victor make a female version of him, he denies and the monster has to convince him to do so. Victor finally agrees and starts working on this project in hope that this is the monster's last request and he will finally leave him alone. Victor begins to think about the monster’s request and realizes that the monster may not keep his promise and he could unleash chaos on the future by creating a race of demons. (page 75)

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Absent mothers and the fear of the maternal

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Absent mothers and the fear of the maternal

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1. ”No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.” pg 54 The creature was born into the world without fatherly or motherly care. He was neglected by Victor and shunned. This had a major impact on the creature. The very bottom of Maslow's needs were not given to him. We see examples of this in chapter 10.

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Adventure and experience: Pg. 13, Chapter 1: “When I was about 5 years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.”
Here it’s a little less romanticized, but it shows the adventure and experience the character had when he was child.

Humanitarian sympathy for the common man:  Page 50, “The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized with their joys.” As the monster observed the lives of the cottagers, he began to learn and adapt the nature of humans such as the ability to be empathetic. He also learned their vocabulary which he began to admire and wants to be closer to the common man.

Paradoxical combinations:“ He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated from hardly appeared capable” chapter 11 pg. 47. The monster was just observing the cottage wishing he could live in one like it, But a human saw him and got scared because of his looks but in reality the monster meant no harm, he was just admiring the cottage.

Setting: Pg. 33, Chapter 7: “Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me. Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. The picture appeared a vast and dum scene of evil, ...”
Here we not only get the setting of the character's surroundings but also his feelings, giving us the full idea of what to feel for the rest of the chapter.

supernatural or  otherwise inexplicable events: Page 59, “God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him”. The religious reference of creation such as God, Satan, and other demons are examples of supernatural beings.  Gothics explore more Anti-Catholic explanations in their perception of religion in society.

Nature: “The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and nature bade me weep no more, then again the kindly influence ceases to act” Chapter 9 pg.42  The description of nature in this quote tells us that he was upset because of his looks, but the soothing winds helped calm him down because the winds were like a mother helping victor not cry anymore.

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“As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathized with and partly understood them, but I was unformed in; I was dependent on none and related to none. ‘The path of my departure was’, and there was none to laminate my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. “ (Frankenstein 58)

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The Id:

1. Pg(47) “One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.”
The Ego:Pg(50) “This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.”
Super Ego: Pg(61-62)

1. “There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.”