Monday, May 3, 2010
Female Frankenstein
In modern day films and shows the female Frankenstein (monster) was depicted as a beautiful female with a strip of silvery gray hair in her full jet black beehive hair style. In the book this is a contradiction of what the monster had asked for. He wanted a female who was just as hideous as he was. He wanted the female to be a mirror image of himself. Victor questioned her creation because he though what if he would be bringing damage to the entire human race. These creatures might create babies and that would be another generation of unwanted an discriminated human beings. Victor also wondered what if the female didn't like the male creature and didn't want to be kept from his society. She possibly could be attracted by the beautiful male form that men in his society represent. Why would modern day society turn the female into a figure of beauty instead of how Frankenstein wanted her to look. Could they have been trying to change the conception of what the monster stood for.
Frankenstien - A Quote
"The hour of my weakness is past, and the period of your power is arrived. Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a resolution of not creating you a companion in vice. Shall I, in cool blood, set loose upon the earth a daemon, whose delights is in death and Wretchedness. Begone! I am fir, and your words will only exasperate my rage."
Should I create another monster
In Volume 3, Chapter 3 Victor Frankenstein battles himself with the question should he create a female figure like the one he had created before. The setting takes place in his laboratory, the sun had already set and the moon was rising. This setting gives off a Gothic environment. Victor quotes
" Had I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophism's of the being I had created"
" I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement".
The words the other uses shows so many elements of Gothic literature in her work. A dark environment is created in this chapter by Frankenstein's thoughts and the presence of the creature.
" Had I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophism's of the being I had created"
" I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement".
The words the other uses shows so many elements of Gothic literature in her work. A dark environment is created in this chapter by Frankenstein's thoughts and the presence of the creature.
" You Dont Know Jack "
I just recently watched a movie entitled " You Don't Know Jack" This movie is about a man who was known as a "Death Doctor". They called him this because he helped assist his patients with their suicide. In one of the scenes he is compared to Dr. Frankenstein. He explains to the listeners on a radio show that it is society who created the monster though it was Frankenstein who made the creature. This was a very interesting story because both victor and Jack are considered to be two men they have no respect for life in the eyes of the viewers. Jack feels that someone who suffers everyday of their life shouldnt be entitled to. Before he helps arrange ones suicide, he talks to them and makes sure they are the right candidate for the procedure. For example if you are labeled clinically depressed he would not help someone commit suicide; this is only for someone who has no other way out of a bad situation. Jack really things about his patients emotions unlike Victor he hardly considered his creations emotions as a human being.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Another Gothic literature
* Explains about another type of gothic literature
Website- http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/gothic.html
GOTHIC LITERATURE
The English Gothic novel began with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765), which was enormously popular and quickly imitated by other novelists and soon became a recognizable genre. To most modern readers, however, The Castle of Otranto is dull reading; except for the villain Manfred, the characters are insipid; the action moves at a fast clip with no emphasis or suspense, despite the supernatural manifestations and a young maiden's flight through dark vaults. But contemporary readers found the novel electrifying original and thrillingly suspenseful, with its remote setting, its use of the supernatural, and its medieval trappings, all of which have been so frequently imitated and so poorly imitated that they have become stereotypes. The genre takes its name from Otranto's medieval–or Gothic–setting; early Gothic novelists tended to set their novels in remote times like the Middle Ages and in remote places like Italy (Matthew Lewis's The Monk, 1796) or the Middle East (William Beckford's Vathek, 1786).
GOTHIC LITERATURE
The English Gothic novel began with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765), which was enormously popular and quickly imitated by other novelists and soon became a recognizable genre. To most modern readers, however, The Castle of Otranto is dull reading; except for the villain Manfred, the characters are insipid; the action moves at a fast clip with no emphasis or suspense, despite the supernatural manifestations and a young maiden's flight through dark vaults. But contemporary readers found the novel electrifying original and thrillingly suspenseful, with its remote setting, its use of the supernatural, and its medieval trappings, all of which have been so frequently imitated and so poorly imitated that they have become stereotypes. The genre takes its name from Otranto's medieval–or Gothic–setting; early Gothic novelists tended to set their novels in remote times like the Middle Ages and in remote places like Italy (Matthew Lewis's The Monk, 1796) or the Middle East (William Beckford's Vathek, 1786).
What makes a work Gothic is a combination of at least some of these elements:
a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not,
ruined buildings which are sinister or which arouse a pleasing melancholy,
dungeons, underground passages, crypts, and catacombs which, in modern houses, become spooky basements or attics,
labyrinths, dark corridors, and winding stairs,
shadows, a beam of moonlight in the blackness, a flickering candle, or the only source of light failing (a candle blown out or an electric failure),
extreme landscapes, like rugged mountains, thick forests, or icy wastes, and extreme weather,
omens and ancestral curses,
magic, supernatural manifestations, or the suggestion of the supernatural,
a passion-driven, wilful villain-hero or villain,
a curious heroine with a tendency to faint and a need to be rescued–frequently,
a hero whose true identity is revealed by the end of the novel,
horrifying (or terrifying) events or the threat of such happenings.
ruined buildings which are sinister or which arouse a pleasing melancholy,
dungeons, underground passages, crypts, and catacombs which, in modern houses, become spooky basements or attics,
labyrinths, dark corridors, and winding stairs,
shadows, a beam of moonlight in the blackness, a flickering candle, or the only source of light failing (a candle blown out or an electric failure),
extreme landscapes, like rugged mountains, thick forests, or icy wastes, and extreme weather,
omens and ancestral curses,
magic, supernatural manifestations, or the suggestion of the supernatural,
a passion-driven, wilful villain-hero or villain,
a curious heroine with a tendency to faint and a need to be rescued–frequently,
a hero whose true identity is revealed by the end of the novel,
horrifying (or terrifying) events or the threat of such happenings.
The Gothic creates feelings of gloom, mystery, and suspense and tends to the dramatic and the sensational, like incest, diabolism, and nameless terrors. Most of us immediately recognize the Gothic (even if we don't know the name) when we encounter it in novels, poetry, plays, movies, and TV series. For some of us--and I include myself, the prospect of safely experiencing dread or horror is thrilling and enjoyable.
Elements of the Gothic have made their way into mainstream writing. They are found in Sir Walter Scott's novels, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and in Romantic poetry like Samuel Coleridge's "Christabel," Lord Byron's "The Giaour," and John Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes." A tendency to the macabre and bizarre which appears in writers like William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor has been called Southern Gothic.
Elements of the Gothic have made their way into mainstream writing. They are found in Sir Walter Scott's novels, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and in Romantic poetry like Samuel Coleridge's "Christabel," Lord Byron's "The Giaour," and John Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes." A tendency to the macabre and bizarre which appears in writers like William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor has been called Southern Gothic.
Sadiyah Henderson
A monster is created
When Frankenstein created the monster his mind was a blank canvas. Though he was looked upon as a monster he didn't have the mentality of a monster. Despite his first horrible encounter with humans he still gave them another chance. He didn't judge all humans based upon that one experience. Though he was scared to trust he took another chance. It was several incidents that led him to become the monster he is claimed to be. society introduced him to his feelings and the hurt corrupted his mind. The dark aspects of society was now knocking at his door. He allowed the evil to take over because this let him know that he too had an influence on society and the people that co exist in it.
Sadiyah Henderson
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