Friday, September 3, 2010
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Motivating Factors
Based on our examination of change's role in Frankenstein, it leaves me with the following question:
When Victor begins his pursuit, does he, himself, want to change?
OR
Does he want to change the world around him but remain unchanged?
If the answer is the latter--does that immediately implicate failure for Victor?
And really, for this response, you can examine his motivation from the inception of this idea to generate life. In trying to gain the ultimate knowledge about human life, does that imply that Victor is looking to change the world around him for the better? or merely change his role in this world?
When Victor begins his pursuit, does he, himself, want to change?
OR
Does he want to change the world around him but remain unchanged?
If the answer is the latter--does that immediately implicate failure for Victor?
And really, for this response, you can examine his motivation from the inception of this idea to generate life. In trying to gain the ultimate knowledge about human life, does that imply that Victor is looking to change the world around him for the better? or merely change his role in this world?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Change?
"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardor that exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." (Chapter 5)
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man. But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event? Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you. Know that, one by one, my friends were snatched away; I was left desolate. " (Chapter 23)
Above are two famous quotations from Mary Shelley's novella Frankenstein. The role of change is so monumental in this story, that it almost takes on a role as its own character.
Are these two quotations saying different things about the concept of change? Or do they work together to provide one common statement relating the effect and importance of this concept?
How do their placements in the text relate to your understanding of their meanings/your response?
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man. But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event? Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you. Know that, one by one, my friends were snatched away; I was left desolate. " (Chapter 23)
Above are two famous quotations from Mary Shelley's novella Frankenstein. The role of change is so monumental in this story, that it almost takes on a role as its own character.
Are these two quotations saying different things about the concept of change? Or do they work together to provide one common statement relating the effect and importance of this concept?
How do their placements in the text relate to your understanding of their meanings/your response?
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