FRANKENSTEIN

Amara Ghorbani, Shraddha Singh, Michelle Nguyen, and Anais Saenz

What is childhood and adolescence?

Childhood is the time span from birth to adolescence, and adolescence is the transition from childhood to adulthood.

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How Topic Relates

Victor Frankenstein was exposed to obstacles and tragedies during his late adolescence that he had not faced as a child which changed his childhood passion for science into a terrifying obsession of recreating life.

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Quote from Frankenstein

“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflection upon self” (Shelley 20).

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Analysis

Victor remembers being content and happy during his childhood and as he grew older he was exposed to the adversities of life which changed his view on life to be more pessimistic.

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• The mentality altered• The childish mentality abruptly altered• After facing adversity, the childish mentality inside Victor

abruptly altered• After facing adversity, the childish mentality inside Victor,

the dream of finding the elixir of life and the philosopher’s stone, abruptly altered

• After facing adversity, the childish mentality inside Victor, the dream of finding the elixir of life and the philosopher’s stone, abruptly altered so that instead he dreamed of creating a new species of human that was invulnerable

After facing adversity, the childish mentality inside Victor, the dream of finding the elixir of life and the philosopher’s stone, abruptly altered so that instead he dreamed of creating a new species of human that was invulnerable which led him to spend endless amounts of time in solitude, reading every theory available on the subject of recreating life, and collecting body parts to build the creature he had envisioned.

The 6-Step Thesis

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Significant Moments

Victor reads a book he found written by Cornelius Agrippa when he is thirteen.

As a young and curious teenager, Victor becomes fascinated concerning the mysteries of the natural world when he comes across Agrippa’s book about natural philosophy. This leads to his studies on the outdated researches of alchemists like Agrippa, in which later turns into an obsession that consumes the rest of his life.

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Significant Moment cont.

When Victor’s attends University at Ingolstadt at the age of seventeen and learns from professor Waldman.

This is the point in Victor’s life where he is at his prime capacity for learning. As a teen in his late adolescence, Victor’s hunger for knowledge is satisfied when he began more accurate studies in science and chemistry suggested by professor Waldman. This leads to his pathway to tragedy in which he will later apply his studies in real life by creating the creature.

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Walton’s letters at the beginning of Frankenstein that express his dream of exploring the Arctic can be tied back into the story expressing the dream of finding the elixir of life which Victor possessed as a child.

Literary Devices – Foreshadowing

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Literary Devices – Point of View

The different point of views throughout the novel are used to express the narrator’s emotions and expressions. If the novel was written in Victor’s point of view the entire time we would feel nothing but resentment and hatred towards the creature, but with the different point of views from both Victor and the creature we are able to understand both characters and how they feel towards the other.

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Literary Devices- Allusion

Throughout the novel, Shelley alludes to different novels, such as Paradise Lost, in order to portray the emotions of the characters and to aid the audience in relating to the characters. The allusion to Paradise Lost in particular shows the creatures' connection to Lucifer, a character who felt guilt, but brushed it off, the same way the creature felt guilt for murdering Frankenstein's brother, but merely brushed it off and continued on his killing spree.

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