Prose Comparison Fact Sheet
FRANKENSTEIN NEVER LET ME GO
NAMES: the monster NAMES: donors, carers, normals, possibles, guardians
Euphemisms
“The wretch - the miserable monster”
“Devil”, “daemon”, “vile insect” SEMANTICS & JARGON
The Creature only has the identity given to him by “Guardians”:
Frankenstein and society, and that is the one that he Raised in a structured setting with detached emotions
internalises:
The human, the inhuman, and the less-than-human
“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly
what a wretched outcast I was” The dramatic revelation with which the narrative culminates is
not so much the identification of Kathy and her classmates as
The creature or ‘monster’: passive in an image that has been
clones, however, but rather the disclosure of Hailsham’s identity
constructed for him
as a social experiment established to ‘prove’ the humanity of
Monster: name is shaped by an external force, his ‘creator’
clones
A new spirit, but a decaying body
PERFORMATIVE MOTIF
Kathy and her peers have been unknowingly schooled in
assimilation; they are taught to ‘pass’ as normals within a
culture which exploits them
, SALES & EXCHANGES
used possessions by which the students are encouraged to
construct their own identities only underline their commodified
status
Their struggle for personalized space is countered by the
surveillance
NARRATIVE - FRAME NARRATIVE & EPISTOLARY NARRATIVE - NON-LINEAR & EPISODIC
FORMAT Childhood, adolescence, adulthood
Walton, Frankenstein, the creature
= a story written in the form of letters Complex temporal context: contemporary medical & ethical
controversy is depicted as a past reality
Unreliable narration. Victor tells his story to Walton, who
relates it to the reader: Consider the agenda of the narrator “Told and not told”
Victor’s editorial power A process of excavation; reveals the indirect and insidious way
she and her peers learn the truth about their origins and fate. A
Consciously constructed: 3 framed narratives method of gradual and partial disclosure
STRUCTURALLY & METAPHORICALLY MUTILATED STRUCTURALLY & METAPHORICALLY MUTILATED
Like the creature, it’s a narrative that’s been deconstructed & A patchwork narrative: like the clones
sewn back together: tacked into place
UNRELIABLE NARRATOR & BIASED NARRATIVE
Imposition of Male Perspective on the Narrative Must rely on the telling of the subjective memories of Kathy.
Elizabeth, Justine and Margaret. She is the singular, first person narrative voice
- All described by men. Kathy’s more modest storytelling
- Margaret is simply used by Shelley to demonstrate the
FRANKENSTEIN NEVER LET ME GO
NAMES: the monster NAMES: donors, carers, normals, possibles, guardians
Euphemisms
“The wretch - the miserable monster”
“Devil”, “daemon”, “vile insect” SEMANTICS & JARGON
The Creature only has the identity given to him by “Guardians”:
Frankenstein and society, and that is the one that he Raised in a structured setting with detached emotions
internalises:
The human, the inhuman, and the less-than-human
“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly
what a wretched outcast I was” The dramatic revelation with which the narrative culminates is
not so much the identification of Kathy and her classmates as
The creature or ‘monster’: passive in an image that has been
clones, however, but rather the disclosure of Hailsham’s identity
constructed for him
as a social experiment established to ‘prove’ the humanity of
Monster: name is shaped by an external force, his ‘creator’
clones
A new spirit, but a decaying body
PERFORMATIVE MOTIF
Kathy and her peers have been unknowingly schooled in
assimilation; they are taught to ‘pass’ as normals within a
culture which exploits them
, SALES & EXCHANGES
used possessions by which the students are encouraged to
construct their own identities only underline their commodified
status
Their struggle for personalized space is countered by the
surveillance
NARRATIVE - FRAME NARRATIVE & EPISTOLARY NARRATIVE - NON-LINEAR & EPISODIC
FORMAT Childhood, adolescence, adulthood
Walton, Frankenstein, the creature
= a story written in the form of letters Complex temporal context: contemporary medical & ethical
controversy is depicted as a past reality
Unreliable narration. Victor tells his story to Walton, who
relates it to the reader: Consider the agenda of the narrator “Told and not told”
Victor’s editorial power A process of excavation; reveals the indirect and insidious way
she and her peers learn the truth about their origins and fate. A
Consciously constructed: 3 framed narratives method of gradual and partial disclosure
STRUCTURALLY & METAPHORICALLY MUTILATED STRUCTURALLY & METAPHORICALLY MUTILATED
Like the creature, it’s a narrative that’s been deconstructed & A patchwork narrative: like the clones
sewn back together: tacked into place
UNRELIABLE NARRATOR & BIASED NARRATIVE
Imposition of Male Perspective on the Narrative Must rely on the telling of the subjective memories of Kathy.
Elizabeth, Justine and Margaret. She is the singular, first person narrative voice
- All described by men. Kathy’s more modest storytelling
- Margaret is simply used by Shelley to demonstrate the
