https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose en-us 2017-01-24 14:57:25 UTC 2017-01-24 15:24:57 UTC hello@padlet.com oliviashearon https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149034068 Justine tried - Guilty, condemned to death at insistence of priest, confesses of crime, confides in Victor and Elizabeth of innocence.Victor filled with guilt and anguish. Responsible for Williams death.

]]> 2017-01-24 15:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149034068 oliviashearon https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149035478 Frankenstein is playing God - resembles Satan from Milton's Paradise Lost. Satan - archangel, punished for vanity, arrogance and thirst for forbidden knowledge. Victor attempts to take away gods role - creator. Victor imagines he'll be superior and the creature, will worship and honour him. The romantics - especially Blake, Byron and Percy Shelley - interpreted Milton's account of the biblical story of genesis  as a celebration of Satan. They regarded Satan not as evil but as the victim.]]> 2017-01-24 15:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149035478 oliviashearon https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149037806 Mary Shelley was conscious of political issues of time - was a keen reader of books written by her parents.]]> 2017-01-24 15:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149037806 oliviashearon https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149038565 The most influential political event of the period during which Frankenstein was conceived. Took place in 1789. The French Revolution had an enormous impact on British public opinion. British responses to the French Revolution-the right to resist abuses of power, the right to choose and dismiss government, ]]> 2017-01-24 15:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149038565 oliviashearon https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149042840 Funded the society to the abolition of the slave trade - 1787. Several attempts to introduce a law banning the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Met strong opposition, largely for economic reasons. Mary Shelley's mother was a supporter.]]> 2017-01-24 15:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviashearon/Frankensteinchapter8prose/wish/149042840