Reading Journal #1
Frankenstein
Interconnected Motifs
One interconnected motif present in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is “Technology”. The main character Victor Frankenstein creates a monster by reanimating a dead body. As he says in the story, “Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?” (Shelley, chapter 4). This goes with another interconnected motif in the story, which is “Science Fiction”. Once Victor created this “monster” it brought its conflicts and horrors. He ends up feeling guilty for bringing a new life into the world with no provisions for taking care of the “monster”, which also ends up with the destruction …show more content…
Frankenstein. N.p, 1818.
Literary Lingo
The story uses mostly first person narrative. I know this because the other characters in the story are presented as they are related to the main character as “my father”, “my mother”, “my sister”. Although, the narrator changes. It shifts to third person only when the monster tells his protector’s story.
Compare and Contrast
The story “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is a Gothic novel like the other Gothic novels in my textbook., because they are the same as in no matter what sensational elements each novel uses they all have that mysterious, terrifying, suspenseful, and dark nature. As sensationalism is “a subset of the mystery genre, and an outgrowth of and successor to the gaslight thriller, detective fiction allies the gothic elements of suspense, intrigue, terror, and violence with keen deductive logic” (D2L start here section). Although, they are the same in this way, they each have other different gothic elements that make them different from one another. One such gothic element is dark settings, which in Frankenstein there are lots of things that let us know there is a dark setting. When Victor creates the monster, Frankenstein describes how it was “on a dreary night of November” (Shelley, pg. 58). The castle in “The Castle of Otranto” has secret passageways and other things that make it scary for Isabella as she was trying to flee from Manfred when she entered the passageway “every murmur struck her with
Frankenstein
Interconnected Motifs
One interconnected motif present in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is “Technology”. The main character Victor Frankenstein creates a monster by reanimating a dead body. As he says in the story, “Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?” (Shelley, chapter 4). This goes with another interconnected motif in the story, which is “Science Fiction”. Once Victor created this “monster” it brought its conflicts and horrors. He ends up feeling guilty for bringing a new life into the world with no provisions for taking care of the “monster”, which also ends up with the destruction …show more content…
Frankenstein. N.p, 1818.
Literary Lingo
The story uses mostly first person narrative. I know this because the other characters in the story are presented as they are related to the main character as “my father”, “my mother”, “my sister”. Although, the narrator changes. It shifts to third person only when the monster tells his protector’s story.
Compare and Contrast
The story “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is a Gothic novel like the other Gothic novels in my textbook., because they are the same as in no matter what sensational elements each novel uses they all have that mysterious, terrifying, suspenseful, and dark nature. As sensationalism is “a subset of the mystery genre, and an outgrowth of and successor to the gaslight thriller, detective fiction allies the gothic elements of suspense, intrigue, terror, and violence with keen deductive logic” (D2L start here section). Although, they are the same in this way, they each have other different gothic elements that make them different from one another. One such gothic element is dark settings, which in Frankenstein there are lots of things that let us know there is a dark setting. When Victor creates the monster, Frankenstein describes how it was “on a dreary night of November” (Shelley, pg. 58). The castle in “The Castle of Otranto” has secret passageways and other things that make it scary for Isabella as she was trying to flee from Manfred when she entered the passageway “every murmur struck her with