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If you're reading this, you are either a Brit Lit Scholar, a Landy, or a friend of The Landys. Welcome! I'm so glad that you have chosen to participate in our group reading of Shelley's Frankenstein. For each of the assigned readings, you will see discussion questions to which you are encouraged to respond. Feel free to pose follow-up questions for the group, offer critical or philosophical commentary, or just write what you feel about the text.
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Kathleen Landy
Reading Assignment #3 - Discussion Question A
Chapters 6 & 7 are due on Tuesday.
Consider the Myth of Prometheus (a link is provided below and will be discussed in class on Tuesday) and the fact that Shelley subtitled her book, "Modern Prometheus."
Do you consider Frankenstein to be a stubborn defender of mankind, fighting even against God for the good of humanity? (Provide evidence from the text to support your opinion.)
*This response should NOT be a single sentence.
17 comments:
yes i do think Frankenstein is a stubborn defender to mankind because he wants to rule everything his way,but when reading these chapters it seems as if his stubborness ways are changing and he is becoming freightened with himself, due to the death of his brother and the evil creature he has created.
Yes i think so because Victor is going against God trying to create humans. (Pg.35)"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body." He's trying to create humans that are nearly evil in some way.
I do think that Frankenstein was a strong defender of mankind because he wanted to provide a better world of science for them. He wanted to provide them with what mankind thought to be impossible. "I might i process of time renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption." He did fight against God with the intention of doing good for humanity. He defied God's wishes because what he did something that was unnatural, and God created things of natural creation.
I do not consider Frankenstein to be a stubborn defender of mankind because, him creating this monster is not a way of defending mankind but rather an obssessive way to try to defy the laws of nature and create a super human in his own likeness for example in the book Frankenstein says,"...the work of muscles and arteries...his teeth of pearly whiteness;but these luxuriances..." he is not fighting for the good of humanity at all.
I do think that Frankestein is a stubborn defender of mankind, fighting even against God for the good of humanity. Frankenstein went against anything in his way to create a monster. When he realized that he created something that he thinks is evil, he gets scared. Like Prometheus he forsees the future and understands that if he tells anyone of what he created then something bad will happen. For the good of humanity he tries to go beyond what he really knows, what anyone knows.
Yes, I do consider Frankenstein to be a stubborn defender of mankind, to some extent. "Fighting even against God for the good of humanity" that can be compared to how Frankenstein rejects some of the professors information about the older scientists that he first learned about because he thought they were good, and had all the right information. He doesnt want to believe that professors teachings because he thinks it is wrong.
It does not seem like he is a defender of the earth. There is nothing in the book which can show me this. The monster is just ugly that it.
I also agree with Cefe that i don't consider Frankenstein to be a stubborn defender of mankind because he just want to see if he would be able to create a human being out of corpses. "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."p.35
I think Frankenstein is a stubborn defender of mankind because he is trying to make something lifeless have the same characteristics, if not greater to a living thing. For example,"I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself"..."but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man." Pg.32 He is trying to play the role of God by being a creator.
Frankenstein is a stubborn defender against God because he challenges God by creating life. He is not trying to do good for humanity because he creates a creature instead of a person. Frankenstein even says "Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance." (pg.36) This just goes to show that Frankenstein himself cannot stand the appearance of his monster.
I don't see Frankenstein as a defender of mankind. He may think that he can change GOD's ways and make life eternal just to trick death but that impossible. Frankenstein trying to create life into things that are dead is like fighting against GOD because with life there is death. Without death there is no point in life.
I do not think Frankenstein is stubborn defender of mankind because i do not think its wrong because he is really not defending mankind , i think he is making it better in his own unique way.
I do believe Victor is betraying God because he is creating his own human being. He is creating him with the knowledge that he has learned about science and believes he is going to pull through with this human being and he does. It took Victor two years to finish his project against God's will. When performing this project he thought about nothing except this human of some sort. "...for the sole purpose of infusing life..." His whole purpose of the experiment was to create a human being, created by a human being. Because Victors human is not a real being he is going to have evil in some way. Also because he was not created by God maybe he'll have more than regular because he is not born with original sin....
I do believe that Victor is a stubborn defender of mankind because he challenges God. "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."p.35 That quote shows that he was trying to create life, and we know only God is creator.
i dont think that frankenstein is stubborn but i do think that he is going against god in trying to create a human and on page 35 he says , "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."
yes i do think that frankenstein is stubbborn defender of mankind he seem to be a little self center and everything has to be his way. and he starts to reject the information that the professor try to give him because he feel that they are wrong and he know what he is taking about in terms of creating life
I do not consider Frankenstein to be a defender because even though he created a monster it was done out of his own perspective and his vision.
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