ENGL 111W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Iceberg, Natural Philosophy, Lyrical Ballads

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 111W

Document Summary

Frankenstein sculpts humans out of other body parts. Frankenstein monster is made of lots of dead body bits together (body bits victor found beautiful) Robert walton is reading victor"s story and relating it to the reader. Victor is making himself look better in the story. The letters are forwarded in the future where frankenstein is found by the ship sailors on a block of ice in the water where he was chasing the monster. Robert walton, a self-educated english ship"s captain, writes a series of letters to his sister. Margaret saville in england describing the initial stages of his journey to the north pole. Robert feels lonely on the ship and desires for a companion. Robert is starting to worry about the remains of the voyage as there are oating sheets of ice . Robert"s ship was hit by an iceberg, a day after the sailors on the ship nd an english man in the sea and they rescue him.