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Frankenstein

By:Mary Shelly

Chapter Analysis by:

Jeremy Ryan

Bastian Vsquez

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Mary Shelly

(borned on 30th of august,1797 and died on 1st of

febreaury ,1851)

She got the inspiration in a dream. Later she had

to put a scientific background and got the

inspiration from the scientists: Luigi Galvanni,

(nephew) Giovanni Aldini, Andrew Ure, Konrad

Dippel.

Mary Shelly wrote the book when she was 18

years old.

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Gothic literature

Includes opposing ideas , like in frankenstein

:good/evil, innocence/guilt, etc.

Mary Shelly expands this concept, and we can

see it in this story because there is no hero or

villan but we as readers feel attracted and

repulsed by V. Frankenstein and the monster.

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Writing style

Diction : During this two chapters Mary Shelley

selected words that arent very common, or they

exaggerate things. From the diction we can know

the style and get the imagery the author tries tomake us sense.

Imagery: In this chapters M.S. make us feel the

monster like a horrible thing and the nature like a

sublime one.

Style: We think is rich and flowery.

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Writing style

We think that its rich because it uses a large

vocabulary: quoting from the book

http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/Frankenstein_NT.p

df page 139-140Abhorred monster! Fiend that thouart! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance

for thy crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me

with your creation, come on, then, that I may

extinguish the spark which I so negligently

bestowed.

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Writing style

And flowery because it describes the enviroment witha lot of details. Now quoting fromhttp://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/Frankenstein_NT.pdfpage 134

I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stoodbeside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in aglacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from thesummit of the hills to barricade the valley. The abrupt sides ofvast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacieroverhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around;and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber ofimperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or thefall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of theavalanche or the cracking, reverberated along the mountains,of the accumulated ice.

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Diction

Another word used a lot in both chapters is woe.

In chapter 9 V. Frankenstein mention the Andes,

which shows the knowledge of V. Frankenstein

and Mary Shelley.

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Characters in the chapters

9-10Victor frankenstein (Narrator)Alphonse frankenstein (Victors father)

Elizabeth (adopted sister and wife of Victor)

Monster (Victors creation)

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Before chapter 9-10

Assassination ofVictors brother (William)

Execution of Justine Moritz, accused of the

murder of William.

Alphonse takes Victor on a trip to the mountains .

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Chapter 9

Victor,his father and elizabeth ,are shocked

because ofwilliams and Justines dead.

Victor feels guilty of the dead of Justine.

Elizabeth does her work with less charm and his

father tells Victor his sorrow.

Victor thoughts about suicide throwing himself to

the lake.

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Chapter 9-10

When Victor thinks of committing suicide, it

represents one of the characteristics of the gothic

literature. H e thought in suicide while he is in the

river (he feel like in an abyss of guilt), and inchapter 10 he feels freed while he is in the

mountains (happy state of mind).

The river (low) and the mountains (high) are

metaphors to express the dualism.

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Chapter 10

Victor F. went to the arveiron (there are the

glaciers)

Victor F. went to summit of Montanver

He feels freed and good remembering the

glaciers .

Victor meets the monster , they confront , he

went with the monster to listen his story.

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Importance of this chapters

in the storyV. Frankenstein feels less pain from the dead ofWilliam and Justine, because of being in contact

with nature.

He confronts the monster and agreed to hear themonsters story.

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Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

Decoding the Past: In search of the real

Frankenstein (Documentary).

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