Frankenstein Patterns by Derek Andersen https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3 Derek Andersen en-us 2017-11-21 20:56:35 UTC 2017-12-01 20:41:04 UTC hello@padlet.com "My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized." (Shelley, 29) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210550116 Right after his mother died, Victor felt more lonely than he had ever felt before. This was the first member of his family to die, and the first family death usually hits the hardest.]]> 2017-11-27 17:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210550116 One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and,indeed, any animal endued with life. (Shelley, 36) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210555358 Victor Frankenstein was very into the anatomy of the human body, and this obsession would bring him to create his human-like monster.]]> 2017-11-27 17:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210555358 With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (Shelley, 42) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210557800 This is probably the biggest discovery Frankenstein would make in his life; bringing him monster to life after 3 years of experiments.]]> 2017-11-27 18:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210557800 I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution. I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion. (Shelley, 83) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210558929 Frankenstein was ambitious to catch up to his monster on the ice, as it says, partly for curiosity reasons, but for disclosure.]]> 2017-11-27 18:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/210558929 ‘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. How strange, I thought,that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.' (Shelley, 85-86) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211626580 This quote is shortly after the creature leaves the apartment and first encounters fire. This is one of his first discoveries in the world.]]> 2017-11-29 20:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211626580 "I spent the winter in this manner. The gentle mannersand beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me;when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced,I sympathized in their joys. I saw few human beingsbesides them, and if any other happened to enter the cottage,their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced tome the superior accomplishments of my friends." (Shelley, 93) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211627089 Here, the creature is obsessed with the De Lacey family. He watches them day and night, learns from them, and feels their emotions.]]> 2017-11-29 20:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211627089 "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant,did I not extinguish the spark of existence whichyou had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had notyet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rageand revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottageand its inhabitants and have glutted myself with theirshrieks and misery." (Shelley, 116) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211628014 The creature is wondering why he is still alive, and why he was created in the first place. He wonders why everyone hates him just by looking at him.]]> 2017-11-29 20:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211628014 " If, therefore, I could seize him andeducate him as my companion and friend, I should not beso desolate in this peopled earth." (Shelley, 122) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211629069 The creature wanted to grab William and raise him to like and appreciate the monster so he wouldn't be alone anymore.]]> 2017-11-29 20:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/211629069 "The examination, the presence of the magistrate and witnesses,passed like a dream from my memory when I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me. I gasped for breath, and throwing myself on the body, I exclaimed, ‘Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, mydearest Henry, of life?" (Shelley, 155) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212067678 After Frankenstein's best friend is killed by his creation, he feels even lonelier in life, and is devastated, especially since he created the monster in the first place.]]> 2017-11-30 20:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212067678 "It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night." (Shelley, 147) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212068827 This quote is showing that the creature is upset at Frankenstein for breaking his promise of making a soul mate, so makes an ambitious promise that it would ruin Frankenstein's wedding night.]]> 2017-11-30 20:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212068827 "‘You must create a female for me with whom I can live inthe interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a rightwhich you must not refuse to concede.’" (Shelley, 124) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212069537 The creature is obsessed with getting a female monster to live with, so he threatens and begs Victor to create a female, making a promise to leave and never do harm again.]]> 2017-11-30 20:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212069537 "He had sworn to quitthe neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, butshe had not; and she, who in all probability was to becomea thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to complywith a compact made before her creation. They might evenhate each other; the creature who already lived loathed hisown deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrencefor it when it came before his eyes in the female form?She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone,exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species." (Shelley, 144) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212072352 This is more realization than discovery, but Frankenstein realizes that so many things could go wrong if he finishes his task of creating a female creature.]]> 2017-11-30 20:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212072352 "This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend—‘I will be with you on your wedding-night!’ Such was my sentence, and on that night would the demon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings. On that night he had determinedto consummate his crimes by my death." (Shelley, 166) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212432632 After being happy for a few minutes after getting the letter from Elizabeth, Frankenstein suddenly becomes sad again, remembering that he is to die on their wedding day.]]> 2017-12-01 20:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212432632 "I had formed in myown heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life." dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212435884 Frankenstein is ambitious to kill his monster, no matter what. He needs to get revenge on the creature after it killed Justine, William, Clerval, and Elizabeth.]]> 2017-12-01 20:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212435884 "Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he stillevaded me, I have ever followed in his track. Sometimes thepeasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me ofhis path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some mark to guide me." (Shelley, 180-181) dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212442019 Frankenstein is obsessed with following his creature. He will not stop until either he or the creature is dead, and has felt the agony he has felt.]]> 2017-12-01 20:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212442019 "What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know.Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the barks of the trees or cut in stone that guided me and instigated myfury. ‘My reign is not yet over’— these words were legiblein one of these inscriptions— ‘you live, and my power iscomplete.'" dandersen535 https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212442389 Frankenstein discovers messages and hints left by his creature that keep him going, just for the monsters by pleasure.]]> 2017-12-01 20:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dandersen535/18ce7654hyz3/wish/212442389