Thursday, January 28, 2010

Blog Essay Summary Chapter 16

To what extent do you sympathsis with Frankensteins monster?

Talk about how the creature is feeling and his human emotions. Is his thought evil or are they the way that any normal human being would feel when they have experienced the same amount of regection as him.

"I could with pleasure destroyed the cottage"
"unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury to inanimate objects"

This shows his human qualities which are no where near evil which everyone has tarnished him with.

Talk about his large range of emotions;
  • anger
  • tiredness
  • upset
  • fury
  • calmness
  • revenge
  • frightened
  • pity
  • lonliness

When he killed, talk about the reasons behind it. He feels guilty but also has a sense of satisfaction with it.

He only wanted the young child to be his companion as he is lonely. He thinks that the child isnt someone who will look down on him. He thinks he can teach the child to be a friend.

"the little creature was unprejudice"

He also wants Victor to make him a companion so he doesnt have to go on living alone. He wants a companion who is the same as him so they can sympathsis with each other.

" My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you mist create"

Talk about how he wants to be free and free will. (links with him being human like)

Link it to the way that society looks at people who are different and have a 'disability'

1 comment:

  1. This is a good plan. Remember to stress AO4 and also try to look at some points from two different viewpoints.

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