Transcript ENG 3U – Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s
FRANKENSTEIN
Chapters 11-16
Chapter Summaries
Is the Monster Really a Monster?
Modern Frankensteins
Themes/Allusions/Symbols
Mary Shelley’s
FRANKENSTEIN Chapters 11-16
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 11
• Creature tells story
• Learned basic survival:
night/day; food; warmth and
shelter
• Saw other people and
surprised at their fearful
reactions to him
• Retreated both for
“inclemency of season” and
“barbarity of man”
• Begins watching young family
Chapter 14
• History of DeLacey family (once
rich and respected)
• Met Safie’s family, enemies of
state, which caused DeLacey
downfall
• Safie and Felix in love
Chapter 12
• Learns more about family:
poor; young boy and girl plus
old man
• Creature does small jobs to
help them
• Begins to learn music,
language, culture, etc. and
becomes quite intelligent
• More about family: Felix,
Agatha
• Spirits elevated from nature
Chapter 15
• Creature continues to learn
through books and learns to
question self from books and
letters from Victor it finds
• Creature visits old man (blind)
alone, talks to him, but man
freaks when Creatures touches
hands
Chapter 13
• Introduction to Safie and how
she brightens household
• Felix teaches Safie their
language so Creature also
learns through observation
• Creature questions self; thinks
it is a monster: “blot upon the
earth, from which all men fled
and whom all men disowned”
• Agony through knowledge
Chapter 16
• Creature curses Creator
• Feels all things enjoying life
while it is in Hell; hears Felix
saying how Creature destroyed
family’s senses
• Creature resolves to find Creator
• Rescues girl but is shot
• Kills William and plants evidence
on Justine
Mary Shelley’s
FRANKENSTEIN Chapters 11-16
Is the Monster Really a Monster?!?
Human
Monster
What’s the difference between
HUMAN and MONSTER? Is there
one? Could Shelley be on to
something?
Mary Shelley’s
FRANKENSTEIN Chapters 11-16
Modern Frankensteins
The thought of the Creature being
FRANKENSTEIN has existed for over a
hundred years... It has developed into a
cultural phenomenon...
WHY IS FRANKENSTEIN
EVERYWHERE?
Some fun Frankenstein facts:
-First film in 1910
-Igor created in 1939 Son of Frankenstein
-Over six sequels in 1930s and 1940s
-Even included Blackenstein, a “blacksploitation” film
-1960s TV Show The Munsters used Herman Munster
character
-The Creature has been used to advertise Twix,
Volkswagen, Pepsi and Radio Shack
Blackenstein, 1973
Mary Shelley’s
FRANKENSTEIN Chapters 11-16
Themes, Allusions, Symbols
THEMES
Chapters 11-16
contain references
to many allusions,
several significant
themes and some
recurring symbols.
What are they?
ALLUSION
SYMBOLS