What Does Prometheus Mean In Frankenstein

Prometheus- had to give qualities to animals
-had none left when it came to humans-Prometheus loved humans so he stole fire from the gods
-Fire (spark)- spark of creativity/civilization
Jupiter was mad, and he tortured Prometheus- by making birds come and eat at his liver and he would heal and he would start again
Romantics see him as the divine rebel
Victor Prometheus
- steals back from gods -over reaches -steals from gods

Paradise-Lost-God,(victor)(The monster can manipulate him) Adam,([victor] his amazing eden like childhood)([monster]created by victor) Satan, ([victor] goes beyond what he should )([Monster]fiend, demon who tries to destroy)
-the creature gets to see the face of his god , and he gets to say what he wants
Seen as a gothic novel, has hero and heroine, the interest lies in the bad guy-ex phantom of the opera, hunchback of Notre dam
-good and evil characters have conflict
-more realistic because no one is completely good or bad
Victor is somewhat good- he creates for his mother-he is good and gets out of hand- he wants to be a father to his creature
Narrator Walton-letters-he writes letters to his sister- he wants to be famous [he is ambitious, crave recognition, obsessed, lonely, relations with their fathers-Walton’s father forbade him from becoming a sailor-when his father dies he goes and buys a boat, belief in the marvellous, self-educated, social class, unwilling to trust people close to him ]

Victor Creature (heart of the story) [he tells his story to victor so victor can understand-he is like god- he also wants a female companion] Victor Walton
Victor wants Walton to understand the prisuit of knowledge, to chase the monster, finish his job
He can talk to victor, but not to the commander
(pg 29) Walton is very romantic, he is an unreliable narrator
(pg 28) Shows his ambition, he is showing that he would sacrifice the life of another
Margret
- Must be a good relationship between them
- Younger than Walton
- He says she will enjoy this letter
- (pg 15) shows she is worried about him, at the end of the letter he says she should not worry about him
- (pg 213) shows the two opposing sides that Walton has with his sister
Personal Ambition Domesticity
(pg 56) brings gains but harm out ways good Life is better in domesticity
(pg 36)
Who has a happy family life?/and/or\Childhood

Walton
-no because his father was a pressure
-has no mother
- rejected by sister
-father causes downfall

Caroline Beaufort
-Beaufort could have gotten help but had false pride and treated her unfairly
-dead mother
-father causes downfall

Elizabeth
-mother died of child birth
-Italian father too poor to help them
-father causes downfall-Italian politics get the money taken away-will

Safi
-Doesn’t have mother
-poor relations with father
Justine
-has no father
-mother abuses her

Clerval
- Father won’t let him study
Victor wants domesticity but there is no example of a good domesticity
(pg 43) mothers death reaction= life goes on
It shows how there is a childhood he wants and a childhood he actually has
Victor is seen as god,
Creature-hideous, monster
(pg 57) did he want a beautiful monster-creature
Qualities he possess when he makes the creature- labour being described? Or embodiment of desires of victor
-sub conscience desire

Failure of domesticity comes from the people who fail their duties
Elizabeth’s letter to Victor why it is so confusing?
Pg 63)
-talk of Justine
-talk of William
-she hints at marriage
- he doesn’t pick up this hint
Pg (69)-(70) delaying his travel
(71)-letter about William
-Victor is careless what he says is not what he does

Death of William
- Monster kills William to get revenge on victor
- To make him feel isolated
- Anger
- Child(innocence)- the innocence of the world/natue has been moved
- Everyone takes responsiblitiy for it
- Victor, he created the creature- he had the dream of his mother
- -Elizabeth, the crime was motivated by the locket she allowed the picture to be put in
- Justine she would not have been seen as guilty but she isn’t Justine looks like caroline- he associates them [her virtues, and beauty kill her in the end]
- -Monster, pg 143
Vengeance-jelousy

Mothers-when they talk about nature they say “she” ie mother nature

Repetition of the gesture of bending over- fusion of life and death.
- caroline-father
Monster- Victor (sleeping)
Monster-Victor( death)

Justine-name
The death of justice= the priest makes her lie
When Victor is imprisoned

How is the monster Victor’s double?
-the closer they become it becomes harder to tell between them (pg 90)
spirit
-stays in solitude when upset
-the creature has to shun man because of the way he looks
-he contemplates suicide- caring for family
-the monstor would not have killed the family
- pg 93- what might have driven them the sympathy makes
-pg 94- dates his woe from the death of Justine but he doesn’t he is self-involved and selfish
How self-involved is the creature-
BUT the creature has no one else to be with
Victor takes no steps to protect his family
He is self educated

Romantics were interested in the thought of the sublime- fusion of beauty and terror
-secnes of nature that instill in you feeling of beauty or terror

Spirit-understandable = beauty
Power indifference =Terror

Time, scenery- November created, huge mountains, large seas- he goes to them to make him feel smaller and humbler and gives him comfort
The creature is more human than victor he wants humanity but victor does not
John Locke-tabularasa
Pain and pleasure

+Animal parts
Victor=reason
Creature=emotion