frankenstein patterns - milina mike by Milina Mike https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845 en-us 2017-11-21 20:56:12 UTC 2017-12-04 21:01:43 UTC hello@padlet.com "The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion" (Shelley 18). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271397 Beaufort was so obsessed with not living in poverty and being brought into oblivion that he moved away and ended up with a very small amount of money. He wanted to find work in a merchant's house which didn't end up working out. Beaufort grieved over this and it consumed him so much that he became sick and wasn't able to do anything of use.]]> 2017-11-21 20:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271397 "... I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret. The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture. After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils. But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result" (Shelley 37). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271429 Victor had a new fascination with the human structure and how it was formed. During his many hours of study, he discovered the secret of recreating human life. He describes how he got to this point and how so many men before him had the opportunity of finding this secret, but he was the only one who actually discovered it. ]]> 2017-11-21 21:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271429 "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 amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavoring to bestow mutual pleasure--I was now alone" (Shelley 30). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271456 Victor just almost lost his prized possession, Elizabeth, but instead lost his mother. He is used to having all of these people around him that are happy and full of gratitude. He is now being shipped away to a university in which he knows no one. Victor has to get used to not having his family and friends around him to bring his mood up, as stated, he is alone.]]> 2017-11-21 21:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271456 "One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to dedicate myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labors, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swum with the remembrance; but then a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit" (Shelley 39). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271484 At this point, Victor was making his creature. He devoted every waking minute to this, it was everything he had been working towards and will work towards. Victor continues to give up everything to work and finish this discovery. It begins to ruin him. ]]> 2017-11-21 21:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/209271484 "We may not part til you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create" (Shelley 123). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624673 The monster, which of Frankenstein, has killed his brother and force ably killed another woman by blaming his doings on her. He claims he will not stop doing such things until Frankenstein makes another creature just as awful as he.  ]]> 2017-11-29 20:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624673 "I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles of dress and some books. Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter." mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624736 Frankenstein's monster had learned language and speech by watching the De Lacey's. He then found some books and other things in the woods one day. To him, this was the greatest discovery.]]> 2017-11-29 20:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624736 "I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate" (Shelley 84) mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624806 Upon just being brought to life, the monster was abandoned by his creator almost immediately. He was on his own, alone, with no parent, no guide, no one to care for him or treat him. ]]> 2017-11-29 20:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624806 "All was silent in and around the cottage; it was an excellent opportunity; yet, when I proceeded to execute my plan, my limbs failed me and I sank to the ground. Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat. The fresh air revived me, and with renewed determination I approached the door of their cottage" (Shelley 113) mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624852 Frankenstein's monster was so determined to find a friend and be of good for someone. He waited for months on end, and then formed a plan. He devoted himself to this family and how they taught him, although they didn't even know. His plan was to go to the house when the blind man was alone, so he wouldn't be judged by his monstrous face. He stumbled on his way up, but he was too determined to stop there and knocked on the door.]]> 2017-11-29 20:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/211624852 "You are in the wrong, and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am malicious because I am miserable" (Shelley 124). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212052622 Frankenstein's monster would not stop arguing and reasoning with Victor until he consented with his idea. His idea being, that he wanted a companion that was as ugly as him and he would then leave mankind alone.]]> 2017-11-30 19:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212052622 "I felt as if I were placed under a ban--as if I had no right to claim their sympathies--as if never more might I enjoy companionship with them. Yet even thus I loved them to adoration; and to save them, I resolved to dedicate myself to my most abhorred task" (Shelley 128). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212055001 Never in this quote does it mention loneliness, but you can tell by the way Victor speaks that he feels destruction. He created this monster and now has to create another for him to leave mankind alone. This sort of success has turned into destruction for himself and his monster. He feels as though he can't talk or interact with his family, because he made something that tore them into pieces and he hasn't told them yet.]]> 2017-11-30 20:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212055001 "I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, addressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers" (Shelley 137). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212057181 There had been some research done in which, Victor was going to study to figure out how to recreate his monster as a female. This he discovered in letters at his home in Geneva.]]> 2017-11-30 20:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212057181 "It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged. But now I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands. I grew restless and nervous. Every moment I feared to meet my persecutor. Sometimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground, fearing to raise them lest they should encounter the object which I so much dreaded to behold" (Shelley 142). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212057207 Victor was obsessed with his work again, but this time in a different state. He struggled to do it, but so helplessly knew he needed to get it done. His mind consumed him, believing his family were to be killed by his vicious monster. Victor knew that if he didn't finish he was to be killed as well. It was a constant battle.]]> 2017-11-30 20:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/212057207 "the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race" (Shelley 164). mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213037168 The thoughts of Victor's own monster was consuming him. He couldn't grasp the fact that his own creation murdered his brother, servant and best friend. He blamed his own self to be the murderer of them all, because he created the monster.]]> 2017-12-04 19:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213037168 "Frankenstein has daily declined in health' a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes, but he is exhausted, and when suddenly roused to any exertion, he speedily sinks again into apparent lifelessness" (Shelley 190) mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213040353 Walton is discovering how lifeless Frankenstein is now. He is tired and willing to do no work, even if he tried he would fail miserably. ]]> 2017-12-04 19:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213040353 "I had obtained some knowledge as to the situation of my enemy. She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary. But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate change had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces" (Shelley 172) mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213042607 Victor was so obsessed with finding the monster and confronting him right then and there that he didn't take a second to think that maybe he would go for Elizabeth. Victor left Elizabeth alone to sleep on their wedding night. He didn't even spend her last moments with her. Instead, he was scavenging for his monster.]]> 2017-12-04 19:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213042607 "As time passed away I became more calm; miser had her dwelling in my heart, but I no longer talked in the same incoherent manner of my own crimes, sufficient for me was the consciousness of them. By the utmost, self-violence I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea" (Shelley 164) mmike549 https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213044885 Victor was determined to get rid of his anger and frustration with himself. But instead of taking it out on other people he began to take it out on himself, but gradually he was getting better. He is the best he had ever been since he left.]]> 2017-12-04 19:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mmike549/hj1kmin9l845/wish/213044885