ENGL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2103
• Professor: Henderson Jennifer

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In some sense they are interchangeable or their nature is bound together. Victor frankenstein is extended in his monster: victor and the monster are complementary characters. The monster: represents victor"s reason cut loose from feeling; reason in isolation from emotion. The monster does"t have a name: he is sometimes called a wretch"; the monster in the. Rst play was cast with a dash from his name. The monster is more like a depraved infant: he has deep feeling; he feels how the poor family"s lives are. He masters language: reads the intertext that he nds in a satchel in the forest. Intertext: woven into the fabric of the text you are reading; can be a background structure or a speci c reference or allusion. The story of adam and eve (milton"s version); paradise lost, The monster is good, articulate (is one of the narrators)