Interpreting Patterns In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '
Setting → Victor goes to Mount Montanvert, where talks to the monster.
Colours → White or light from the mountains to represent dreams or knowledge again.
Plot → A flashback from Victor, who is narrating about his past to Walton about when encounters the monster for the first time after creating it.
Chapter 11:
Narration → The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains.
Setting → The monster talks about many cities and villages he is not welcome in, lives in forest / a hovel (nature again) and spies on family in cottage (winter-spring).=
Colours → Green from the forest may represent goodness.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The monster is not welcomed from any towns, villages, or cities- so he decides to …show more content…
live in the forest. note- the forest is always described as a good place and this is definitely a symbol
Character Names → Three characters have meaning to their name in this chapter, that’s more than the rest of the book- Mary Shelley was trying to make it obvious. The first, Felix, can be translated to Latin which means “happiness.” The second is Agatha and in Greek means “good.” Lastly Safie or rather “Safi” is a male name, that the Arabic meaning, is “pure,” if changed to a girl name, Sophia, then in Greek it means “Wisdom.” Therefore; wisdom/ purity, goodness, and happiness, very obvious that it means something in the near future.
Symbolism → The forest is a symbol for purity, this can be related to Shakespeare’s “Othello” where Desdemona is pure and the odd one out just as this monster is in a different way in Frankenstein.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor. Chapter 12:
Narration →The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains. Setting → The setting has not changed from the previous chapter.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The monster again proves he is good by bringing firewood to the house everyday from winter to spring.
Symbolism → The wood represents the Monster’s purity. He also sees his reflection in a puddle and feels sad about how unordinary he looks, this does change his mindset or make him stop being kind.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 13:
Narration → The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains. Setting → The setting has not changed from chapter 11.
Sensory Imagery → Feels compassionate towards the family even though he has never talked to them.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The Monster counts the De Lacey’s as “his protectors” this shows how he, just like Robert Walton, needs a friend.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 14:
History about the De Lacey Family, no patterns, imagery, or symbols can be taken from this chapter that would have good contribution.
Chapter 15:
Narration → The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains.
Symbolism → The Monster decides to read and learn how to speak better, this is mainly through three books, Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Goethe's Sorrows of Werter. This symbolizes his choice to be with humans and a part of them, even though he is neglected, he is making himself easier to talk to and maybe get a friend.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs→ The Monster tries to talk to the old man who is blind (Mr. De Lacey) and they become friends quickly, once the family comes they chase him off and leave the cottage in fear. This shows that just because the Monster is not good looking the family did not like him, Mary Shelley is trying to show that looks do not mean anything it is how good of a person you are.
Character Names → This shows that the three name meanings earlier; Felix, Agatha, Safie, which mean wisdom/ purity, goodness, and happiness, are actually the opposite and this is supposed to be irony.
Important Note → The Monster makes a biblical connection between himself and Adam, comparing their …show more content…
existence.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 16:
Narration → The narration of the Monster and Victor catch up to each other at this point, and this is when the stories get integrated.
Setting → The Monster leaves the cottage and lives off the land, thereafter he enters Genova.
Sensory Imagery → The Monster gets mad when he sees the family inside leave, he then burns the cottage to the ground.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The Monster, once in Genova seeks revenge “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?” The Monster goes on to murder Victor’s little brother, puts his locket in Justine’s clothes, and then the story snaps to present- where he asks Victor to create a mate for him. This is contradicting because he just killed two people yet asks Victor to create the life of another. note- the monster had a revenge thing going when he killed William and led Justine to her death, this may happen again if he is unhappy with Victor or vice versa
Symbolism → Fire is also light, and this can mean that light can be good but it can also be bad. As mentioned previously, light meant dreams or knowledge, whereas now it symbolizes anger and revenge.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 17:
Narration → Victor now narrates, still talking to Robert Walton about his life leading up to when they met.
Setting → The story goes back to Montanvert.
Sensory Imagery → Not really sensory but Victor sees where the Monster is coming from and that’s why he agrees to make a female.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The monster demands a female monster or he will destroy Victor. Victor agrees- if follows through with the female monster he will live. note- if he creates something that is good he will live, if he creates nothing then the monster that is good will kill him, it is kind of contradicting
Symbolism → The female monster could represent both good / pure life, or bad / death everywhere around it, this depends on if Victor makes it or not.
Plot → Frankenstein is talking to Robert Walton about the choices he made and what happened to him during the course of his life.
Chapter 18
Narration → Victor now narrates, still talking to Robert Walton about his life leading up to when they met.
Setting → Victor leaves for London with Henry, passing through France, Germany, Holland/Netherlands, and then arriving in London in late
December.
Symbolism → Victor promises he will marry Elizabeth, his marriage may very well represent one one between the female monster he is about to make or the opposite, his happy times with marriage make the male monster feel even more lonely.
Plot → Frankenstein is talking to Robert Walton about the choices he made and what happened to him during the course of his life.
Chapter 19:
Narration → Victor now narrates, still talking to Robert Walton about his life leading up to when they met.
Setting → Winter spent in London, Oxford, then they split up and Victor goes to the Orkney Island chain.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → Since he has been so disconnected from science he needs to catch up, this shows his relentless stupidity towards science and the pursuit of knowledge yet again.
Colours → White or light from the mountains to represent dreams or knowledge again.
Plot → A flashback from Victor, who is narrating about his past to Walton about when encounters the monster for the first time after creating it.
Chapter 11:
Narration → The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains.
Setting → The monster talks about many cities and villages he is not welcome in, lives in forest / a hovel (nature again) and spies on family in cottage (winter-spring).=
Colours → Green from the forest may represent goodness.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The monster is not welcomed from any towns, villages, or cities- so he decides to …show more content…
live in the forest. note- the forest is always described as a good place and this is definitely a symbol
Character Names → Three characters have meaning to their name in this chapter, that’s more than the rest of the book- Mary Shelley was trying to make it obvious. The first, Felix, can be translated to Latin which means “happiness.” The second is Agatha and in Greek means “good.” Lastly Safie or rather “Safi” is a male name, that the Arabic meaning, is “pure,” if changed to a girl name, Sophia, then in Greek it means “Wisdom.” Therefore; wisdom/ purity, goodness, and happiness, very obvious that it means something in the near future.
Symbolism → The forest is a symbol for purity, this can be related to Shakespeare’s “Othello” where Desdemona is pure and the odd one out just as this monster is in a different way in Frankenstein.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor. Chapter 12:
Narration →The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains. Setting → The setting has not changed from the previous chapter.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The monster again proves he is good by bringing firewood to the house everyday from winter to spring.
Symbolism → The wood represents the Monster’s purity. He also sees his reflection in a puddle and feels sad about how unordinary he looks, this does change his mindset or make him stop being kind.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 13:
Narration → The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains. Setting → The setting has not changed from chapter 11.
Sensory Imagery → Feels compassionate towards the family even though he has never talked to them.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The Monster counts the De Lacey’s as “his protectors” this shows how he, just like Robert Walton, needs a friend.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 14:
History about the De Lacey Family, no patterns, imagery, or symbols can be taken from this chapter that would have good contribution.
Chapter 15:
Narration → The narration changes to the Monster telling his story to Victor in the mountains.
Symbolism → The Monster decides to read and learn how to speak better, this is mainly through three books, Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Goethe's Sorrows of Werter. This symbolizes his choice to be with humans and a part of them, even though he is neglected, he is making himself easier to talk to and maybe get a friend.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs→ The Monster tries to talk to the old man who is blind (Mr. De Lacey) and they become friends quickly, once the family comes they chase him off and leave the cottage in fear. This shows that just because the Monster is not good looking the family did not like him, Mary Shelley is trying to show that looks do not mean anything it is how good of a person you are.
Character Names → This shows that the three name meanings earlier; Felix, Agatha, Safie, which mean wisdom/ purity, goodness, and happiness, are actually the opposite and this is supposed to be irony.
Important Note → The Monster makes a biblical connection between himself and Adam, comparing their …show more content…
existence.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 16:
Narration → The narration of the Monster and Victor catch up to each other at this point, and this is when the stories get integrated.
Setting → The Monster leaves the cottage and lives off the land, thereafter he enters Genova.
Sensory Imagery → The Monster gets mad when he sees the family inside leave, he then burns the cottage to the ground.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The Monster, once in Genova seeks revenge “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?” The Monster goes on to murder Victor’s little brother, puts his locket in Justine’s clothes, and then the story snaps to present- where he asks Victor to create a mate for him. This is contradicting because he just killed two people yet asks Victor to create the life of another. note- the monster had a revenge thing going when he killed William and led Justine to her death, this may happen again if he is unhappy with Victor or vice versa
Symbolism → Fire is also light, and this can mean that light can be good but it can also be bad. As mentioned previously, light meant dreams or knowledge, whereas now it symbolizes anger and revenge.
Plot → The Monster flashes back and talks about his life recently to Victor.
Chapter 17:
Narration → Victor now narrates, still talking to Robert Walton about his life leading up to when they met.
Setting → The story goes back to Montanvert.
Sensory Imagery → Not really sensory but Victor sees where the Monster is coming from and that’s why he agrees to make a female.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → The monster demands a female monster or he will destroy Victor. Victor agrees- if follows through with the female monster he will live. note- if he creates something that is good he will live, if he creates nothing then the monster that is good will kill him, it is kind of contradicting
Symbolism → The female monster could represent both good / pure life, or bad / death everywhere around it, this depends on if Victor makes it or not.
Plot → Frankenstein is talking to Robert Walton about the choices he made and what happened to him during the course of his life.
Chapter 18
Narration → Victor now narrates, still talking to Robert Walton about his life leading up to when they met.
Setting → Victor leaves for London with Henry, passing through France, Germany, Holland/Netherlands, and then arriving in London in late
December.
Symbolism → Victor promises he will marry Elizabeth, his marriage may very well represent one one between the female monster he is about to make or the opposite, his happy times with marriage make the male monster feel even more lonely.
Plot → Frankenstein is talking to Robert Walton about the choices he made and what happened to him during the course of his life.
Chapter 19:
Narration → Victor now narrates, still talking to Robert Walton about his life leading up to when they met.
Setting → Winter spent in London, Oxford, then they split up and Victor goes to the Orkney Island chain.
Repeating Patterns / Motifs → Since he has been so disconnected from science he needs to catch up, this shows his relentless stupidity towards science and the pursuit of knowledge yet again.