ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1C06
• Professor: Jeffery Donaldson

Document Summary

Daughter of : william godwin, mary wollstonecraft. Education as a cobbling together of parts i. e. others" influences, wide reading. Epistolary: more personal, less authoritative, what one hears and know from another, walton"s letters are themselves accounts of a story narrated to him. The frame of walton"s encounter in the arctic. The period of frankenstein"s narration is the period of his health. When he finished the story, he begins to decline. The kind of world that a novelist projects that is implied in at least every word or phrase. The story inhabits a particular world and the laws/orientation of that world is implicated in the story. Takes on a variety of different forms: where creative powers come from. Individual characters perceive their own understanding to the world they are moving to is different than what we see. The monster"s understanding of the world he lives in as well as victor"s are different from one another.