Outline For Frankenstein Research Paper

Frankenstein Romantic novel by Mary Shelley Themes
• Anxiety about science o Natural philosophy (hybrid) [bunk!]
• Philosophical
• Religious
• Scientific
 Fascination with electricity and magnetism
• Thought that electricity was the key to life
 Intense interest in the origins of life
• Beginning to find fossils and pre-Darwin evolution
• Life and Death (see below) Romantic Triad Divine / nature / humanity Frankenstein is the opposite (upside down triangle). Prometheus Unbound (Romantic Hero) Advocate of humanity
Good intentions = happy ending
Suffers, gains wisdom
Wisdom leads to final decision
Isolation leads to redemption of society
Filled with the virtues of sacrifice, love, protection,
Passages that support the Inversion of Romantic Themes And then I thought again of his words--"I
WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT." That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny. In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice. The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.

Passages that support the Inversion of Romantic Themes The wind, which had fallen in the south, now rose with great violence in the west. The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected
Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended. At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been. When will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the daemon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die, and he yet live? If I do, swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death. And do I dare to ask of you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone? No; I am not so selfish. Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live--swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes. He is eloquent and persuasive, and once his words had even power over my heart; but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Hear him not; call on the names of
William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched
Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near