1. How is the night that the creature is born an
example of Gothic prose?
2. What is ironic about the creature’s physical
appearance?
3. What is Romantic about the creature’s physical
appearance?
4. How does Dr. Frankenstein feel about his
creation? What does he do after the creature comes to life?
5. What event is foreshadowed in the beginning of
Chapter V?
6. What does Frankenstein feel when the creature
reaches out to him? What do you think is the creature’s reason for reaching out for Dr.
Frankenstein?
7. What is most likely the cause of Victor’s
reaction to his success?
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ReplyDelete2. What is ironic about the creature’s physical appearance?
ReplyDeleteThe irony of the Frankenstein monster's appearance is that it is a hideous monster but is not out to harm anyone. The monster is misunderstood due to its hideous appearance.
5. What event is foreshadowed in the beginning of Chapter V?
In Chapter 5, Victor completes his creation. But when he brings it to life, its awful appearance horrifies him. He rushes to the next room and tries to sleep, but he is troubled by nightmares about Elizabeth and his mother’s corpse. He wakes to discover the monster looming over his bed with a grotesque smile and rushes out of the house. This foreshadows the eventual appearance of Frankenstein.
1. The night the creature was born is an example of Gothic prose due to that night being described as a "dreary night of November" night being dark and unknown and November is a cold month not associated with being bright or sunny.
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is Gothic prose?
Delete4. Victor has immediate regret that he gave life to a creature so hideous. He feels disgust in his heart towards what he has done and when the monster reaches out for Victor he panics and leaves the apartment. He is shaken up from what he has experienced.
ReplyDeleteI agree he was filled with regret and disgust, but before he leaves his apartment, he tries to get some sleep and has a disturbing dream about Elizabeth: "...I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep... I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams."
Delete6. What does Frankenstein feel when the creature reaches out to him? What do you think is the creature’s reason for reaching out for Dr. Frankenstein?
ReplyDeleteWhen the creature reaches out to him, Frankenstein felt terrified, so he escaped. The creature might have been reaching out to help or calm Frankenstein. The creature's actions may have been harmless, but Frankenstein viewed them as a threat.
7. What is most likely the cause of Victor’s reaction to his success?
ReplyDeleteThe cause for Victor's terror may have been the creature's appearance when it moved. As Victor worked, he was blinded by the desire to succeed and create life himself. He never considered the outcome of his efforts; therefore, he realized that he created a creature with a grotesque form when it came to life. The physical appearance of the creature inevitably led him to the conclusion that it was monster only capable of violence.
1. The nigh is dark, rainy and stormy. Victor is horrified, filled with mad excitement and revulsion. (shelly 35)
ReplyDelete4. Frankenstein feels "the beauty of dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." He runs away out of the apartment. (Shelly 35)
2 the creature's appearance is ironic because it had good qualities such as "teeth of pearly whiteness" and "lustrous black [hair]". Although physical quantities like these enhance the attractiveness of a normal person, on this creature they contrast the rest of the body so much that it is horrifying rather than attractive.
ReplyDelete6. When Frankenstein found the creature at his bed he was horrified. The image of it traumatized him and first thought was to flee. The creature most likely reached his hand out to comfort Frankenstein from reacting negatively to his presence. The creature could have also reached his hand out as a sign of friendship and compassion.
ReplyDelete2. In the process of creation, Victor viewed the creature as nothing less than beautiful, but as soon as it came to life, he was horrified. In contrast, when parents meet their newborns covered in amniotic fluid and blood, they feel nothing but love despite the grotesquery. Additionally, referring to the God-Adam relationship, God created Adam as an image of Himself. Victor did not do so.
ReplyDelete2. the creatures's physical appearance is ironic because the creature is made out of dead limbs and looks horrific, but in reality he is a loving, caring creature.
ReplyDelete4. victor immediately regrets making the creature and is horrified and in panic, and he runs out of his compartments.
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ReplyDelete5. After the Creature comes to life, Victor tries to get some sleep, but his disturbing dream depicts himself kissing Elizabeth who then turns into a corpse. The event of the Creature murdering Elizabeth is foreshadowed by this dream.
ReplyDelete7.The most likely cause to Victor's reaction to his success, is shock, he has been striving towards this goal for two whole years explicitly, and now that he has attained it he fails to believe it, the success has him awestruck because he has completed the goal which he lived for, this is also combined with dread because of the sudden realization of the "monster" he has created, his total immersion in his work caused him to overlook the appearance of the creature and now that he has come back to his senses the physiognomy of the creature blindsided him.(Shelley 34-36)
ReplyDelete3. What is Romantic about the creature’s physical appearance?
ReplyDeleteThe creature is ugly and disporportional in all aspects, even Frankenstein is terrified of his creation. What makes the creature Romantic although, is how even though Frankenstein might view him as horrendous thing, the details describing the creature are of "pearly whiteness," "lustrous black, and "shrivelled complexion" which gives the creature some beauty in all that uglyness. Also, when Frankenstein awakens from his dream he says "a grin wrinkled his cheeks" (Shelley, 35) which shows the creature might have emotions.
3. What's Romantic about the creature's physical appearance is that it's eccentric, romanticism revels in the unique, add this to the seeming compassion that the creature expresses when he reaches his hand to his creator, though misconstrued by Victor suggests that he is a friendly being which is very paradoxical considering Victor describes him as a "demoniacal" yet his manner suggest quite the opposite. (Shelley 35-36) Though his outward appearance is unsightly and unappealing he seems to have å kind soul, not unlike another Romantic figure, the hunchback of Notre Dame creåted by Victor Hugo, which relishes in the fact that things are much more than they seem, and beauty can be found anywhere as long as one is willingly to look.
ReplyDelete1. How is the night that the creature is born an example of Gothic prose?
ReplyDeleteThe night the creature comes alive is "on a dreary night of November" (Shelley, 34) and it "was already one in the morning" "the rain pattered dismally" and the "candle was nearly burnt out" (Shelley, 35). These are images that make the atmosphere of the night Frankenstein's creature came to life dark and haunting. It fills the prose that something terrible is about to happen and leaves a chilling environment that is dreaded.
2. Although the monster he created is made of dead matter and different parts it is somehow still like a human with the characteristics described by Victor. It can also be ironic that the monster is not the best looking creature in the world but he is nice. Hideous looking things don't seem like nice things.(Shelley,35)
ReplyDelete5. Victor views his creation as a monster. It foreshadows how the rest of the people will view the monster. They will interpret it as just a monster and nothing else which is a horrible and dangerous mistake that Victor made and probably the people will make too. (Shelley,34)