ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bourgeoisie, Az Yet, Lightning

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ENGL1005H: Love and Hate
Sunday, March 18th, 2018
Lecture Notes Week 9 – Frankenstein
The Critics
-Everyone' s favourite monster
oThe dangers of science
oEthical implications
oCreature as the proletariat – turn of the proletariats against the bourgeoisie
oSeeing him as criminal (sources of criminality) nature vs nurture – made bad
oRebellious young teen – acting against his 'father' – father abandoned the son and the son spends his life
trying to get back at his father
oSwiss Republic coming together
The Creature
-Learns through reading and watching the family
-Sees himself as human in the sense that he wants to be human but sees himself cut off from humanity (inhuman
because he is cut off by humanity)
-Sorrows of Wert er and Interiority
oCooperation and conflue nc e of what he is reading about and watching
oThe painful; and disturbin g questions of individual humanity
oFinds himself similar
oAlone in the universe
oSomething that has been made by humans, not a human
oOutsider, not part of society
-Plutarch's Lives and Exteriority
oThe potential trium p h of nurtur e over the individual
-Milton's Paradis e Lost and the Devine
oAn imperfect individual
oNo being to nurture him
oContemplating his relationship to the divine
oCreature is not perfect (created imperfect)
-The Creat ure's Final Word
o"am I thought to be the only criminal, when all of humankind sinned against me?"
ovictim of human cruelty
oa human, but a dead human
omiserable and abandoned, but murdered lovely and helpless – sees his full complexity
oseems to be just as confused as everyone else about what is his and what he offers
Victor Frankenstein
-understands the creature the least out of everyone
-the creator's ass e s s m e n t
othe unknowability and ambiguity of the creation against the unfou n d e d (?) certaint y of the c
its natur e
oinability to comprehend the creature
oobject that disappears
olightning is bringing understanding, similar to the tree in the beginning of the book
obecomes convinced of the truth
oguilty conscience
orecognizing his creation as someone he abandoned (complex response, but undone)
omurderer, or supernatural
The Narrative Triangle
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Sees himself as human in the sense that he wants to be human but sees himself cut off from humanity (inhuman because he is cut off by humanity) Plutarch" s lives and exteriority: the pot e n ti al triu m p h of nurt ur e over the individual. Milton"s paradis e lost and the devin e: an imp erf e c t individual, no being to nurtur e hi m, contemplating his relationship to the divine, creature is not perfect (created imperfect) Walton (as told to his sist er) (theor y) (re m o v e s hi m s elf from his family) (self- justification) Victor (as told to walton) (practic e) (des tro y s his family) (self- justification / moti va tio n) (rev e n g e ) Mr. and mrs. frankenstein: primacy of male intimacy and friendship. Male bonds: assuming the role and place of the father.

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