Frankenstein
Frankenstein Project:
Compare works that express a universal theme and provide evidence to support the ideas expressed in each work.
Themes:
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
-Dangerous pursuit of knowledge
-The nature and importance of friendship and love
-Obsession and the consequences and causes
-Outcast and monstrosity, secrecy
-Creature tries to fit in to society, and is still shunned by differences
-Prejudiced
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
-Outcast in society
-Fitting into society, either individual or society must change, John Savage accepts that he does not fit into society, shunned
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
-Prejudice against Boo Radley, expected to be a monster, actually has honorable, heroic qualities
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
-Lennie Small, Crooks-defomities
• Flowers to Algernon by Daniel Keyes
-Obession to improve, knowledge
Romantic Nature:
-Sublime nature, the affects it has on the person, emotions and feelings, expressive
• Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth (1798)
-Both return to places that bring back a rush of emotions and feelings
In Tintern Abbey:
“…I have owed to [these beauteous forms]/In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,/ Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;/ And passing even into my purer mind,/ With tranquil restoration…” (Wordsworth 26-30).
-In Frankenstein:
“I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorry or care. When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. A serene sky and verdant field filled me with ecstasy” (Shelley 57).
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge (1798) -Excerpts taken from the books, dangerous pursuit of knowledge, traveling to north pole Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
Over hundreds of years, similar themes...
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