connections

Both Victor and Macbeth suffer from isolation. Victor suffers moreso, I think, since his isolation at first is of his own doing. He chooses to spend months at his unsavory experiments--visiting charnall houses and graveyards to collect his materials. He does not go out into the world to enjoy nature, he does not sleep or eat well. Later, his isolation is because he is trying to protect those he loves from the creature (so he says). Macbeth is isolated due to his guilt for killing Duncan, and then because everyone recognizes him for what he is--an evil, ambitiious, killing machine who will cut down anyone in his way.



Fate is evident in both the novel and the play since there are similar themes-playing God will only bring you trouble. Macbeth tries to tempt fate by hurrying events along and murdering Duncan. Victor attempts to play God by creating a human being which, after being abandoned, turns on him. In both, the outcome is not pleasant. Those who take faith out of the equation are destined to suffer horrible consequences. Had Macbeth allowed Fate to "stir" his future for him, he might have been King without murdering Duncan and losing favor with his friends. Had Victor allowed his father and professors to steer him away from the countles antiquated books he was studying, he may not have created the creature and suffeed so many losses.

Frankenstein can be seen as a novel identity

Frankensteins can be seen as a novel of indentity because it has to deal with the identity issues of both frankensteins monster and victor frankenstein. another main issues to be dealt with is Mary Shelleys identity.

Frankensteins view of himself within paradise lost: does he see himself as adam or eve?

Mary Shelley: why didnt she put her name on the novel at frist?

Victor frankenstein: playing god, does he see himself as the monster?

Key Issues From the Bloody Chamber

• Shock Value

Use of explicit language in the fairy tales, is using the shock factor because the reader isn't it. this creates shock value and read-on-ability as the reader wonders if she has included other graphic language.

• Feminism

You can see feminist views in these novels by the way Angela carter allows the female characters to be much more dominant in these fairy tales then they bare in the original. They originals used females as damsels in distress and allowed the men to rescue them, Where as in this the female are a lot more independent and allow for the men to be rescued such as in "the courtship of Mr Lyon" this is one of the main feminist stories as the name itself shows that the female is stronger because a man would court a women but now it is the women courting the man.

• Fairy Tale
• Entrapment
• Sympathy

In chapter 10 to what extent is nature a key point???????? ey ey ey!

Nature is a key point in this chapter because it helps us see the monster in a lot of different lights. It helps you feel sympathy for the monster as it makes him very child like, because he is finding solace and prosperity in something else that is so innocent and natural.
The monster can also be related to nature in the way in which nature is something so big and intimidating can be so peaceful and harmful. The way both victor and the monster find peace in the mountains that at the point in time seemed so harmful and frightening makes them relate to each when they both want to be so far away from each other.
Mary Shelley began writing about the mountains in a new to everyone else to show how they could be seen in a different light to frightening and daunting to readers. She allows the reader to link Romanticism and Aesthetics with the mountains and the monster together as they have both been created by a force higher then their own power because they both have picturesque qualities about them but are both sometimes shunned by the human race because of the infinite amount of power behind them. The human race is so fearful of objects more powerful and different to themselves that they stick together and refuse its acceptance into a society that is created around vanity and judgments, i think this is the point Mary Shelly is trying to make by saying how society at the time was very judgemental towards things that were different, and by writing Frankenstein was trying to show people how something so different could in fact be more beneficent towards everyone.