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Character study on the Creature
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Character study on the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Creature Vol 1Page Quote Analysis Theme
45 “I had selected his features as beautiful… but these luxuriance’s only formed -Characterisation- Creature is rejected due
a more horrid contrast.” to horrid features, not truly beautiful
46 “One hand was stretched out seemingly to detain me…” -Innocence of a baby or detaining monster
-Unreliable Narrator
46 “It became a thing even Dante could not have conceived.” -Allusion to Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’
highlight hellish nature of creature
“Wretch” “daemon” “enemy” “Demonical corpse” -Anger at creation on how evil he is.
-Use of names or lack there off
63 “Its gigantic structure and the deformity of its aspect, was more hideous than -Imposing and destructive creature, ref. to
the beauty of humanity” sublime
-Double/Characterisation
63 “The murderer of my brother” -Blame on superficial grounds
-1st Embedded Narrative
Creature Vol 2
85 “his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and -Even from a distant the effects of the
malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for Creature’s trials are visible
human eyes.” -Characterisation
86 “Do your duty towards me and I will do mine towards you and the rest of -Promise to behave and abide in peace, away
mankind” from man should his lust for companionship
be met
-Overall structure of the text separates the
creature from the rest of humanity as a
lone identity
96 “I ought to be thy Adam, but instead I am rather the fallen angel.” -Satan like not a perfect creation
-Paradise Lost allusion
89 “It’s with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being.” -Childlike forgetfulness
-Characterisation
89 “The light became more and more oppressive to me…” -Evil is oppressed by lightness
-Use of light/dark imagery as a motif
90 “I thrust my hand into the live embers but quickly drew it out in a cry of pain” -Childlike forgetfulness
-Secondary embedded narrative
90 “I sat down and wept…all was confused. I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, -Sympathy resulted from feeling
and darkness.” -Secondary embedded narrative
92 “I retreated and lay down to find a shelter… from the barbarity of man.” -Wishes to find solace from how evil man is
-Eloquent, emotional narrative voice
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