Chapters 4 & 5 are due on Monday.
Consider the following statements by Victor
I paused, examining and analyzing all the minutiae of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death and death to life until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me - a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I bedcame dizzy with the immensity of the prospect it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius, who had directed their inquiries toward the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
Remember, I am not recording the vision of a madman. ... Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
In your own words, what did Mary Shelley seem to think about Frankenstein's ambitions?
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Frankenguides & Supplemental Reading
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 1-3
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 4-5
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 6-9
- The Myth of Prometheus
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 10-14
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 15-18
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 19-21
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 22-24
4 comments:
Frankenstein is eager to use his genuis mind to make something that other genuis never done before. His idea is the kind a madman would think about but Frankenstein is willing to try something that has never been done before.
Mary Shelley believed that Frankenstein was eager to discover the generations of life. He was eager to discover how to bring one back from the dead. He wanted to do something that is beyond the ideas of previous, famous, scientists. He was curious about the secrets of life and death.
Mary Shelley tries to express that Frankenstein wanted to try something different and new. He was very ambitious to the point where he wanted to bring someone from the death to the world. He wanted to go beyond what any scientist has ever proposed and with his ambitious ways he began to create something so unmaginable!!
I think Frankenstein's monster was a lot like Shelley with her book. He created this terrible and scary thing but it was amazing and she created this wild and out there book but it is also amazing. I think Shelley thought he needed his ambitions or he wouldnt have been able to make this thing.
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