Frankenstein by Ashley Salgado https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf en-us 2020-12-01 18:24:58 UTC 2025-06-03 14:05:08 UTC hello@padlet.com In Frankstein by Mary Shelley, Victor's monster wouldn't have adopted a complex feeling towards Victor if Victor had help from other professors. ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1011962621 2020-12-12 06:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1011962621 Victor's attitude towards the monster was the projection of his own faults causing the monster to develop his worse traits. ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1011965898 2020-12-12 06:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1011965898 In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the author uses Victor to represent the history of humankind through the desire of progression as self destruction. ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1011967209 2020-12-12 06:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1011967209 In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor claims that the search for knowledge led to his downfall. However, Victor's cowardliness was what prevented him from guiding the monster to be angry. ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1025947381 2020-12-16 22:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1025947381 Victor Frankenstein's lack of ethical morals clouded his judgement that made it easy to play God. ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1025970340 2020-12-16 22:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1025970340 "One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places."(PG40) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026036386 Victor hid most of his emotions and endeavors when searching for knowledge. Nature was the only being that knew what Victor had done. Victor forms this bond with nature in which nature reflects of he feels. Victor has this bond because of his love for nature and science which began his journey in the first place.]]> 2020-12-16 23:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026036386 "As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak, which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had dissapeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbands of wood. I never beheld any thing so utterly destroyed. The catastrophe of this tree excited my extreme astonishment"(PG 27/28) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026041512 Victor's first interaction with fire initiated his interest of knowledge. The description of nature in this particular quote establishes how nature cannot be controlled nor contained. Victor fell in love with nature, but continued to pursue knowledge beyond him almost challenging nature.]]> 2020-12-16 23:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026041512 "The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep. "(PG82) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026051490 Victor's narration of his surroundings does a great job in creating the tone for what will happen next. This quote creates a sense of eeriness. An Eeriness tone is perfect because Victor spots his creation in the following events. The nature is correlating to how Victor feels and how the events will unravel. Victor hadn't confronted his creation and only thinks the worst because of his appearance.]]> 2020-12-16 23:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026051490 "I wept like a child. Dear mountains ! my own beautiful lake ! how do you welcome your wanderer ? Your summits are clear ; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness ?"(PG60) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026099233 This quote displays the complex relationship Victor is developing with nature. He can no longer feel enjoyment because of the horrible creation he has made. He knew nature as only to be this beauty, but when he allowed himself to be apart of creating beauty, it only turned into disaster.]]> 2020-12-16 23:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026099233 "When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy."(PG 55) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026116859 Victor narrates the influence nature has on him. Victor knowledges that he felt happy a few years ago and that being home gave him that same feeling. This will be contrasted by his error in playing God. This same memory of home will be manipulated by the murder of his brother and Justine. Crushing his relationship with nature.]]> 2020-12-17 00:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026116859 "I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky."(PG45) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026127916 Reality hit Victor as soon as he was done finding something nobody else had done before. Victor's emotions coincide with the weather. The weather is used to exaggerate Victor's emotions in order to express how horrible his creation was. His creation was made under bad weather condtions which can foreshadow how nothing good could come from such a gloomy tone. ]]> 2020-12-17 00:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026127916 "I observed, with pleasure, that he did not go to the forest that day, but spent it in repairing the cottage, and cultivating the garden." (PG 95) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026132719 Frankenstein's monster was unfamiliar with nature and what anything was. He described himself as curious wanting to know human life worked. Victor characterizes the creature as evil without even giving him a chance. However, the creatures actions were to be nice and helpful. The monster's actions displayed how he lacked guidance, but was never purposefully evil.

]]> 2020-12-17 00:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026132719 "Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure.' I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.* "(PG 87) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026216135 Frankenstein's monster had no knowledge of what the sun or the moon was, but still had an appreciation for nature's beauty. The setting of the forest is able to give the readers knowledge about the creation and his innocence to something as small as the moon. ]]> 2020-12-17 00:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026216135 "It surprised me, that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure. My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty." (PG 99) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026217668 Frankenstein's monster is seen developing a relationship with nature. This relationship is almost the same as Victor's relationship to nature. They found sought nature as being beautiful and capable of many things. As a result, the creature can be said to be similar to Victor. The creature pays close attention to nature just like Victor had done when he first witnessed fire.]]> 2020-12-17 00:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026217668 "I will revenge my injuries : if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear ; and chiefly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. "(PG 127) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026235617 The monster shows persistence in wanting to feeling love. From its birth, the creature has been alone in the world and is unable to understand the complexities involved. The monster is determined to find love just as Victor was determined to discover something new. The monster is showing its development as he experiences life. Just like humans, the creature has feelings and has endured trauma because he had no guidance. ]]> 2020-12-17 01:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026235617 "If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange than I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched. Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy?"(PG 94) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026241417 This quote not only shows how innocent Victor's monster is, but how negative humans can be. The monster does not understand how poverty can affect the standard of living. The monster only knows that the family has each other. The monster more than anyone understands the feeling of rejection and loneliness. The monster makes a good point in showing how humans sometimes over look the important aspects of living such as love.

]]> 2020-12-17 01:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026241417 "When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness"(PG 200) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026251109 Victor reflects on his own development throughout his life. He characterizes himself as this naive person thinking that scientific discovery was his sole purpose. He failed to realize that there is so much more to life than discovery. Victor is ruined by his own ambitious ways creating his own enemy. ]]> 2020-12-17 01:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026251109 The moon had reached her summit in the heavens, and was beginning to descend ; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture, and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise. Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended." (PG 174) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026432219
The quote creates darker tone which is seen throughly the gothic novel. The setting is important as it correlates with the event of the creature getting revenge on Victor. Nature plays a big role in predicting what type of events will in unravel. The uneasiness of Victor's surroundings emphasizes the tension between Victor and his creation. Victor is facing his worse mistake and it is not the moment for any happiness. Nature changes to fit how Victor feels in order to describe the relationship and influence they are said to have on each other.

]]> 2020-12-17 02:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026432219 "It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in it highest sense, the physical secrets of the world." (PG 24) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026522182 Victor's desire to discover is what led to the conflict in the plot.If Victor wasn't ambitious and determined to discover something then then Walton could've been the one facing tragedy instead.It is Victor's fall and breakdown that illustrates the consequences that come with knowledge and living a life with only the purpose to seek knowledge.The structure of starting from the beginning displays how naive someone so ambitious could be and the development that helps Victor understand the danger of knowledge.]]> 2020-12-17 03:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026522182 "The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. It requires more philosophy than I possess to bear this injustice with patience." (PG 94) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026524012 Walton was just as ambitious as Victor as he was trying to make a discovery. The plot was connected by preventing another person ending in misery. The structure of having Walton meet Victor and learn from him is to give Victor's tragedy a purpose. It is usefully in trying to repeat history and help others. The plot structure helped understand the nature of human kind and that discovery can be dangerous when seeking glory.]]> 2020-12-17 03:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026524012 "But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept, and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. "(PG 200) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026533663
This quote explains the underlying reason why the monster acted in form of revenge. The monster acknowledges he is a wretch because of the way he reacted as a result of Frankenstein's actions. The creature is over emotional letting his emotions get the best of him. He understood that Victor was the only person with the capability to make the him a creature.  The monster agrees that he became what Victor thought him to be, a wretch.]]> 2020-12-17 03:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026533663 "Remember, I am not recording the vision of a madman. The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable."(PG38) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026549662 Victor is the narrator for most of the novel. He proclaims that everything he is stating is true despite having no significant evidence. This shows how the narration of the novel is how Victor understood it as despite what he states. The monster was not present to verify if what Victor said about him is true. This shows how Victor understand how the story may sound crazy and fictional by any means.]]> 2020-12-17 03:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026549662 "Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries."(PG 37) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026561606
Including the detail about Victor's curiosity allows the reader to understand why Victor chose to stay at the university instead of going back home. The plot of Victor's tragedy led the events to start from the beginning. Readers are able to understand that Victor is curious and needs answers if he is not to continue seeking for discovery. By having the story structured through an organized chronological order, Victor's intentions and motives are clear. The readers are able to understand that Victor is miserable from the start and foreshadows the events through the settings.]]> 2020-12-17 03:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026561606 "My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine."(PG 198) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026579126 The monster is able to explain to Victor his motives and his feelings. This quote explains how the monster was moved by the need for love and attention. The monster was rejected and labeled as evil from the start. He had no guidance which explains why his narration had questioned the nature of humans rather the scientific reasoning of humans. The creature was only trying to seek love and felt robbed of it by Victor. Victor is characterized as having no affectionate habits as he doesn't go to visit his family for over two years.The point of view from the creature is innocent and child like as he had no body to love or have the patience to teach him. The trauma he endured explains why he acted the way he did which he explains through his narrative. ]]> 2020-12-17 04:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026579126 "My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path."(PG 5) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026592426 The plot of the entire novel was based around the theme of the desire to discover. This is introduced through the character of Walton who has everything in his life, but continued to crave more. Walton is a reflection of human kind. Humans have the desire to always want more and never being satisfied with what they have until it's too late. Mary Shelley uses Walton to help bring the plot to a full circle.]]> 2020-12-17 04:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026592426 "For when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion, which afterwards ruled my destiny, I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys."(PG25) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026594396 Victor is regretful of his passion and doesn't exactly understand why he needed to pursue the path of discovery. His ambition had blinded him and he had no sense of morals. It wasn't;t until his family was gone and had no one that he understood that life was so much more than science. By that means, Victor was unable to enjoy life because he had a fixed and narrow mindset about success. ]]> 2020-12-17 04:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026594396 "Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate j I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science." (PG 25) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026597807
Victor is narrating his passions in order for readers to understand how deep he was into discovery. His actions reflect those of someone who is ambitious and only in scientific pursuit, never paying attention to the consequences. He was so blinded by any ethical morals or family values. ]]> 2020-12-17 04:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026597807 "There was none among the myriads of men who 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."(PG118) ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026607193
Everything the monster does is driven by his emotions. The monster is unable to explain why he feels certain ways and retaliates in order to express his feelings. The monster was unable to understand how to communicate with humans at first. The monster's point of view creates sympathy from the readers as the monster was not evil to begin with only developed into an angry creature after Victor's lack of responsibility. Having two narratives portrays Victor as the antagonist as he was the one who made the creature to begin with. Victor was a coward and unable to take responsibility for the monster. When Victor finally did confront the monster he was unable to fix the trauma the monster had faced as a result.]]> 2020-12-17 04:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026607193 In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor stereotypes his creature as a monster based on his appearance resulting in his monster acting as horrible as Victor envisioned him to be. ashleys2613 https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026726323 2020-12-17 05:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleys2613/ddqrucyb8de80qtf/wish/1026726323