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Mythological approachIN FRANKENSTEIN

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“Defined us a complex of stories-some no

doubt fact, and some fantasy which, for various reasons,

human beings regards as demonstrations of the inner meanings of

the universe and of human life”

“ Fundamental, the dramatic representation of our deepest instinctual life, or primary awareness of man in the universe, capable of many configuration, upon which all particular opinions & attitudes depend”

What is Myth?

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Significance of myth

• Myth are symbolic projections of people’s hope, values, fears & aspirations.

• Mythos is a worldview-based traditional story or body of mythology.

• In reality myth reflects more profound reality.

• Study of myth reveals about the mind and character of people.

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Myth of Prometheus

• Greek Mythology

• Prometheus created man and taught everything

• Zeus kept fire from mankind and gave it to mankind

• Give hope to the world

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Myth of Narcissus

• A tale told by Roman poet Ovid

• Echo, a young girl falls in love with Narcissus

• He was the son of a river

• Narcissus unable to leave the beauty of his refection, and because of curse he died.

• Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself.

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Myth of Paradise Lost

• As a Christian myth

• John Milton takes this from Bible, Chapter 1 “Genesis”

• A long epic in English literature

• A tale that says, ‘fall of mankind’

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‘Frankenstein’ &Mythology…

• Shelley incorporated a number of different sources into her work• Promethean myth from Ovid• John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’• S.T. Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient mariner’

• Victor Frankenstein’s innovative work of the Titan in creating humans as he break rules of Nature

• The novel also uses subtitle ‘The modern Prometheus’

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‘Frankenstein’ &Mythology…

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Interpretation of myth

• Myth-past, present is what??

• A writer tries to fit the past in the present. In present the situation is different.

• Is it the repetition of the history-past? In a new way?

• Study of social ‘structure and the texture of the novel. Use of myth is retelling the story …

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Quotes about myth

“Myth are public dreams, Dreams are private myth.”

~ Joseph Campbell

“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession it is a inflection.”

~ Roland Barthes

“Myth convert history into nature.”

~ Roland Barthes

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Conclusion

Hence one can say that in every culture has their own myth and here Marry Shelley has

presented it very proper way and writes Sci-Fi that takes the charm of the novel a higher one.

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