FRANKENSTEIN

The lettersLetter 1• Letter from Walton to his sister regarding his arrival in St.

Petersburg, Russia. Walton discusses his efforts to procure a vessel and a crew for his adventurous expedition to the North Pole, to find a passage to the North Sea.

Letter 2• Three months have passed. Still in Russia, Walton now writes

from the port of Archangel, and in this letter provides a fair description of his commanding officers and his feelings on the eve of this dangerous mission.

The lettersLetter 3• Now upon the sea, Walton writes to say that all is well thus

far, and that with some determination, he can accomplish his quest.

Letter 4• Less than one month later, Walton writes of a strange

occurrence. Having taken in a haggard man off the ice, he introduces the fact that he will now do his best to capture the man’s story as precisely as possible.

• Frankenstein describes his parents’ courtship

• He is their first child, and treated as an “idol” and “plaything”

• discusses his family's compassion toward the poor and shares that they eventually “adopted” a girl, Elizabeth

• “My more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only”

Chapter 1

• Elizabeth and Victor grow up together but remain diverse. Elizabeth is calm but Victor intense. She likes poetry and nature; he leans toward the sciences

• Henry Clerval, Victor's closest friend is also introduced in this chapter. Clerval loves to read and write tales of chivalry, King Arthur, etc.

• Frankenstein compares himself to Sir. Isaac Newton—they both search for truth!

Chapter 2

• Victor prepares to go to the University of Ingolstadt but delays because Elizabeth comes down with scarlet fever

• Victor’s mother becomes ill. Her dying wish is for Victor and Elizabeth marry, and Elizabeth to act as a mother figure to her younger children, Victorss brothers, Ernest and William

• At University, two professors become an influence: Prof. Krempe is appalled that Victor wasted his time studying outdated concepts and ideas, and Prof. Waldman is more positive and sparks Victor’s interest in chemistry.

Chapter 3

• Victor’s sole occupation is natural philosophy, especially chemistry

• When absorbed in his study and project, Victor neglects the outside world (nature) and his friends and family

• He begins a fascination with endued life and how life proceeds and studies anatomy and natural decay and considers the supernatural

• This lead to the creation of the monster

Chapter 4

• Monster created • Victor is horrified over his creation• Victor has nightmares about Elizabeth and his

mother’s corpse• He wakes up and monster is looming over his bed

and rushes out of the apartment• In town he meets his friend Henry Clerval- which

reminds Victor of his recent isolation from his friends and family

• Victor returns to apartment, but monster is gone• Horribly weakened by overwork, Victor falls ill

Chapter 5-6

• Victor receives letter from Elizabeth and wants him to write to his family

• The Frankenstein's hire Justine Moritz as maid• Victor and Henry visit University classes, which the

sight of anything chemical or scientific worsens Victor’s illness

• Victor and Henry walk in the country, uplifting their spirits and connection to nature’s beauty

Chapter 5-6

• Victor receives a letter from his father telling him that his brother William has been murdered

• Victor returns to Geneva, and while in the wood, he sees the Monster

• Victor discovers that the maid, Justine has been found with a picture of Mrs. (Caroline) Frankenstein that was in Williams's possession

• All believe Justine is innocent, but cannot beat the circumstances, and Victor will not admit that the Monster did it

• Justine confesses (in hopes of salvation) and is executed (hanged)

Chapter 7-8

• Victor is melancholy- considers suicide• Mr. (Alphonse) Frankenstein takes family to

country home• Victor travels by himself to the top of a glacier in

search of nature’s beauty and purity• Monster is sighted and Monster speaks

(eloquently) and convinces Victor to join him by the fire in a cave

Chapter 9-10

• Beginning of Monster’s story• Tells of how he has discovered the good and bad

side of fire• He scares away man in hut, then scares villagers• Hides near a hut with a family in it that he can spy

on• Feels guilty for stealing their food- leaves them

some wood for fire• Monster tries to imitate their language• Monsters sees his own image in a pool of water

and is shocked

Chapter 11-12

• Foreign woman (Safie) visits hut family• They teach her language and Monster learns along

with her• Monster realizes (through their conversations)

that he is alone, different, isolated, deformed• Their (hut family) stories add another voice to the

novel’s structure• Monster is an “outsider” just as Victor is with his

“secret”, and Safie and her father are (Turks in Paris)

• Monster sees how Felix (hut family) helps Safie, and Monster hopes that Victor would do the same for him

Chapter 13-14

• While in woods, Monster finds bag with books and reads them (most important- Milton’s Paradise Lost), which Monster see a similarity to himself and his own situation

• Monster finds some of Victor’s notes, and Monster learns how he was created

• Monster hopes to talk with old blind man (De Lacey) and show him his gentle nature

• Hut family return and drive him away• Monster now swears revenge on all humanity,

especially Victor

Chapter 15-16

• Monster finds little girl he thinks is drowning, recues her but man thinks he attacked her and shoots him

• Monster sees little boy William (Victor’s brother) and kills him

• Monster places picture of Victor’s Mother on Justine

• Monster begs Victor to create him a mate

Chapter 15-16

The End

• Victor’s sole occupation is natural philosophy, especially chemistry

• When absorbed in his study and project, Victor neglects the outside world (nature) and his friends and family

• He begins a fascination with endued life and how life proceeds and studies anatomy and natural decay and considers the supernatural

• This lead to the creation of the monster

Chapter 17-18

• Victor’s sole occupation is natural philosophy, especially chemistry

• When absorbed in his study and project, Victor neglects the outside world (nature) and his friends and family

• He begins a fascination with endued life and how life proceeds and studies anatomy and natural decay and considers the supernatural

• This lead to the creation of the monster

Chapter 19-20

• Victor’s sole occupation is natural philosophy, especially chemistry

• When absorbed in his study and project, Victor neglects the outside world (nature) and his friends and family

• He begins a fascination with endued life and how life proceeds and studies anatomy and natural decay and considers the supernatural

• This lead to the creation of the monster

Chapter 21-22

• Victor’s sole occupation is natural philosophy, especially chemistry

• When absorbed in his study and project, Victor neglects the outside world (nature) and his friends and family

• He begins a fascination with endued life and how life proceeds and studies anatomy and natural decay and considers the supernatural

• This lead to the creation of the monster

Chapter 23-24

• Edison

• James Whale

• Brannah

• Brooks

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSCBvu_kijo

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcJwt8XB4M

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GRQHsAVjI

The Creation

Themes, Motifs, SymbolsThemesThemes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.

Motifs Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.

Symbols Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.

Light

Themes, Motifs, SymbolsAlienation and Loneliness

Duty and Responsibility

Justice vs. Injustice

Appearances and Reality

Fire ElectricitySecrecy

Dangerous

Knowledge

Victor’s Duty and responsibilityHippocratic Oath

I swear by Apollo…..I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents

and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine,

to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art – if they desire to learn it – without fee and covenant

to give a share of instruction and all the other learning to my sons

Hippocratic OathI will apply lerned measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment

I will keep them from harm and injustice

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick

If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.

The understanding and use of electricity had passed through a number of phases by the time Mary Shelley came to write Frankenstein

The ancient Greeks had some knowledge of how materials might be rubbed together to create a magnetic reaction.

In about 1600, Dr William Godwin conducted further experiments on magnetism and coined the term ‘electricity’.

In 1752, Benjamin Franklin fastened an iron spike to a silken kite, which he flew during a thunderstorm, with an iron key at the end of the kite string. When lightning flashed, a spark or shock was transmitted from the key to his wrist.

ElectricityIn 1786, Alessandro Galvani induced movements in the legs of a dead frog by touching it with a metal knife, and assumed that the muscles must contain electricity.

Luigi Volta, however, showed that the movement was caused by the reaction of the metal knife and the tin plate on which the frog was lying. This led to the understanding of electricity as a flow of current as well as a flash of power. Volta also built the first electric battery.

ElectricityMuscle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZEnqiSa9I

Spark Gaphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXiOQCRiSp0

How can scientific advancement and exploration be both good and bad?

Human Cloning

Note that cloning is not limited to humans

Human CloningHuman cloning for the purposes of creating a human being. Cloning is the process of creating an organism or being that is genetically identical to its parent.

The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning; human clones in the form of identical twins are commonplace, with their cloning occurring during the natural process of reproduction.

Note the singular use of the word "parent".

Do you think human cloning is a good idea?-Why or why not?

Human Cloning

To clone or not to Clone

The End