Frankenstein Patterns Ceibhionn by Ceibhionn Stevens https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h en-us 2017-11-21 20:56:15 UTC 2017-12-04 21:11:45 UTC hello@padlet.com "'My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention. Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory wold attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!'" (Shelley 25-26). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209981528 Although this quote had the word discovery in it, I find it to be more about Victor Frankenstein's need to uncover something great. He has this mindset that is telling him he needs to discover something new and powerful. He is obsessed with the idea of becoming someone great.]]> 2017-11-24 21:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209981528 "'I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged in the most melancholy reflections. I, who had ever been surrounded by amicable companions, continually engaged in endeavoring to bestow mutual pleasure-I was now alone'" (Shelley 30). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209982759 Victor was to be gong to school someone where he would benefit intellectually. He had to go on his own, when he was always with people growing up. This was a huge change from everything he grew up around. ]]> 2017-11-24 21:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209982759 "'I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings'" (Shelley 30). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209983579 Even though it was hard to Victor to leave people, he also was very thrilled to be able to have his own adventure, he has ambition for the world he has yet to discover.]]> 2017-11-24 21:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209983579 "'His limbs were in proportion, and I has selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriance only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips'" (Shelley 42). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209987925 Victor Frankenstein had finally discovered something incredible and so odd, that it is surprising it even worked. He was able to create a human being and bring him to life.]]> 2017-11-24 22:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/209987925 "'Having thus arranged my dwelling and carpeted it with clean straw, I retired, for I saw the figure of a man at a distance, and I remembered too well my treatment the night before to trust myself in his power'" (Shelley 88). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211628724 The creature was treated very badly by some people that saw him the night before, the discovery of the man and his family was something he was scared of at first because of that encounter, but he learned from them and became educated in speaking and reading by watching the DeLacey family.]]> 2017-11-29 20:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211628724 "'I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world"' (Shelley 118). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211631452 The creature's "protectors" had left when they saw him, and they would not be returning. He felt alone, and he felt like he wasn't anything but what the people called him. This is when he turned from someone trying to be normal to a true monster.]]> 2017-11-29 20:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211631452 "'My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create'" (Shelley 123). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211634622 The creature  is threatening to kill more people if he doesn't get what he wants, someone that he can love that can love him back without fear. He is obsessed with the idea of love so badly, that he is willing to continue taking innocent lives. ]]> 2017-11-29 21:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211634622 "'You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your native town, and towards this place I resolved to proceed'" (Shelley 119). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211635680 The creature decided that since everyone saw him as a monster he would be just that. He needed to kill to temporarily relive him f the anger he felt about human beings. His ambition was to travel t Geneva to kill Victor's family or just find Victor.]]> 2017-11-29 21:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/211635680 "'What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate: I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me'" (Shelley 125). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212063924 The monster has this desire to have a woman create for him, so that he can be happy with her and they can live in solitude. He is so passionate he says if this isn't going to be done that he will kill more.]]> 2017-11-30 20:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212063924 "'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). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212075630 Victor is discovering the possibility that his whole plan can go terribly wrong, and there can be an even worse result by making this woman for him than saying no.]]> 2017-11-30 20:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212075630 "'You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!'" (Shelley 146). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212078913 The monster was obsessed with the idea of power and control, and he got this idea that he was in control of Victor, that he could make Victor do anything he wanted. ]]> 2017-11-30 20:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212078913 "'how they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me!'" (Shelley 163). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212442056 Victor feels that he cannot tell anyone the truth about the real murderer of now three people, this loneliness is corrosive, and making him think he isn't worthy of even being alive.]]> 2017-12-01 20:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212442056 "'I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly ad not shirk from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished'" (Shelley 172). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212443425 Victor has an ambition to kill the monster or die trying. He knows the only way to stop the monster is to kill him or for the only thing the monster truly hates to be destroyed giving him peace. ]]> 2017-12-01 20:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212443425 "'I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise'" (Shelley 175). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212445513 Victor is now devoted to killing this monster when he saw that the creature had killed Elizabeth. As he put it as mental torment, Victor was no longer going to take this behavior from the monster. ]]> 2017-12-01 20:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212445513 "' began to reflect on their cause-the monster whom I had created, the miserable demon whom I had sent out abroad into the world for my destruction. I was possessed by a maddening rage when i thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have hi within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head'" (Shelly 176). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212446487 Victor is realizing what he had done, and why he needs to stop the monster instead of simply dealing with each thing the creature does to him.]]> 2017-12-01 20:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212446487 "'They were dead, and I lived; their murderer also lived, and to destroy him I must drag out my weary existence'" (Shelley 180). cstevens317 https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212656947 The monster killed everyone he loved; everyone he cared for. Now he lives alone and depressed only so he can kill the monster.]]> 2017-12-03 21:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cstevens317/baln3txw1v5h/wish/212656947