1. Frankenstein
Chapter 5

2. Romantic Movement Romantics- disheartened liberals
Romantics-sought solitude in nature
Romantics-believe that emotional healing found in nature
Nature imagery is the most predominate feature of Romantic literature
Romantics-used the idea of the disenfranchised man-not able to live in society
Frankenstein and creature and disenfrachised men

3. Coleridge and both Shelleys
Dealt with the supernatural
Romantic idea-ordinary thngs seem wonderful and awe-inspiring
Romantic idea- dealt with non-natural things

4. Gothic Literature From Romantic literature
Predecessor of modern horror in theme and style
Spin on the Romantic idea of nature worship and nature imagery
Nature given healing powers and destruction powers
Indication of mood through the weather-foreshadowing
Storms, stormy weather

5. Cornelius Agrippa
Renaissance philosopher and scientist with strong interest in the occult
Ancient mystical sciences of the near East
Magic-astrology planetary motion on human events
Spells, predicting of th future
Numerology
Evil spirits

6. Paracelsus
Renaissance philosopher and scientist who introduced a new concept of disease treatment with the use of chemicals, not herbs, to treat diseases
Alchemy-chemical remedies prepared
Paracelsus- diseases caused by external agents attacking the body, not internal upset of yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm

7. Albertus Magnus Renaissance philosopher and scientist
Natural causes of things apart from the church position that God was the cause of all effects
Roger Bacon advocated against Magnus
Roger Bacon did to reconcile his scientific theories with Church doctrine

8. Literary Allusion Milton’s Paradise Lost Adam and Eve
“Ancient Mariner”
“The Modern Prometheus”
Prometheus was a Greek god in charge of giving out gifts to the various creatures on Earth, speed, instinct,
By the time he got to mankind, he was out of gifts. Went against orders and gave man fire (knowledge)
Angered the Gods because man now is becoming God like
Punished by being chained to a rock, vulture devouring his liver
Liver grew back every night to be eaten the next day

9. The Monster: Chapter 6 Limbs were in proportion Features as beautiful
Yellow skin
Hair was of a lustrous black and flowing
Teeth of a pearly white
Watery eyes
Shriveled complexion
Straight black lips

10. Beauty of the dream vanished
Breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
I rushed out of the room
Slept –had wild dreams
Dream of Elizabeth walking in the streets of Ingolstradt
Embraces her, kisses her, she dies, corpse of my dead mother,
Graveworms,

11. Monster holding the curtain of the bed
Muttered inarticulate sounds
One hand stretched out to detain me
I escaped
“No mortal could support eh horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on hom while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” (61).

12. I felt the bitterness of disappointment
“Dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete” (61) !
Allusion to Coleridge’s
“Ancient Mariner”

13. “Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread,
“Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread”
“ He has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge” (63).
Henry Clerval
Victor Frankenstein
Unrestrained heartless laughter
Wildness in eyes
Jumped over chairs, clapped hands
Hallucinating about viewing the monster
“Save me! Save me!”
Fell down in a fit

14. Chapter 6
Ernest is 16
Justine Mortiz -12 to live with the Frankenstein family
As a servant- educated
Mimicked the aunt’s phraseology and manners
Justine’s brothers and sister died, then mother
William is now 5 or so, dark hair and dimples

15. Function of the letters
Letters are the vehicles by which the first person narrator can relate information that he and the reader has not witnessed