Frankenstein Part 3 Chapter 2
Victor and Clerval arrive in London in October. Victor continues to despair, avoiding people unless they have informa
that can help him create a second monster. Clerval, in contrast, is how Victor used to be: excited by learning and wan
meet and talk to everyone. Victor and Clerval travel to Scotland. There, Victor leaves Clerval with a friend and travels
alone. He goes to a remote island in the Orkney's, sets up a lab, and works in solitude on his secret project.
Themes – highlight themes and add a quote for each that are Links to HT
present. Shelley keeps a certain ambiguity as to what Victo
Social status/class actual scientific methods actually are, which adds
Loneliness and Isolation ominous and mysteriousness to the gothic genre o
Violence novel. Atwood similarly uses the unreliable narrat
Language and Power Offred, who frequently misses out key pieces of
Playing God information that the narrator would like to know a
Relationships and family Gilead, and about her past. So similar to Shelley, A
Treatment of women creates a certain element of ambiguity for the rea
Science
Mankind and nature
Victims
Warnings
Quotes
Social status/class and society- The people of Orkney, the
Scottish island which Victor inhabits, evidently live in ‘squalid
poverty’. Victor seems to show no evident sympathy for the
way that these people live, despite the fact that he is
immensely more rich and privileged. Instead he seems to
portray distaste for their ‘gaunt and scraggy limbs’ ,
repeatedly using the pre-modifying adjective ‘miserable’ ;
‘miserable fair’, ‘miserable huts’, ‘miserable penury’ . He has
lost his kindness and seems not to care at all for others, just as
he states ‘So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest
sensations of men’. Victor could be seen as representative of
the issues of class division, wealth and poverty within society.
Loneliness and isolation- Despite the fact that Victor has
already metaphorically isolated himself from the domestic
sphere, by leaving his home and loved ones behind. However,
in this chapter, Victor becomes more geographically isolated-
he chooses to reside in Orkney, one of the furthermost Scottish
islands ‘I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland, and
finish my work in solitude’ . Before reaching Scotland, Victor
even attempts to be light-hearted and happy in the company of
others, however Shelley uses metaphor to portray his ultimate
feeling of restriction ‘I dared to shake of my chains and look
around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten
into my flesh’ . Here, the chains which confine Victor are used
to represent the confines of his constant guilt and worry about
the creature, the idea that it had ‘eaten into’ his flesh suggests
that his burden has consumed him so much that it is now
permanently part of his being.
Victor and Clerval arrive in London in October. Victor continues to despair, avoiding people unless they have informa
that can help him create a second monster. Clerval, in contrast, is how Victor used to be: excited by learning and wan
meet and talk to everyone. Victor and Clerval travel to Scotland. There, Victor leaves Clerval with a friend and travels
alone. He goes to a remote island in the Orkney's, sets up a lab, and works in solitude on his secret project.
Themes – highlight themes and add a quote for each that are Links to HT
present. Shelley keeps a certain ambiguity as to what Victo
Social status/class actual scientific methods actually are, which adds
Loneliness and Isolation ominous and mysteriousness to the gothic genre o
Violence novel. Atwood similarly uses the unreliable narrat
Language and Power Offred, who frequently misses out key pieces of
Playing God information that the narrator would like to know a
Relationships and family Gilead, and about her past. So similar to Shelley, A
Treatment of women creates a certain element of ambiguity for the rea
Science
Mankind and nature
Victims
Warnings
Quotes
Social status/class and society- The people of Orkney, the
Scottish island which Victor inhabits, evidently live in ‘squalid
poverty’. Victor seems to show no evident sympathy for the
way that these people live, despite the fact that he is
immensely more rich and privileged. Instead he seems to
portray distaste for their ‘gaunt and scraggy limbs’ ,
repeatedly using the pre-modifying adjective ‘miserable’ ;
‘miserable fair’, ‘miserable huts’, ‘miserable penury’ . He has
lost his kindness and seems not to care at all for others, just as
he states ‘So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest
sensations of men’. Victor could be seen as representative of
the issues of class division, wealth and poverty within society.
Loneliness and isolation- Despite the fact that Victor has
already metaphorically isolated himself from the domestic
sphere, by leaving his home and loved ones behind. However,
in this chapter, Victor becomes more geographically isolated-
he chooses to reside in Orkney, one of the furthermost Scottish
islands ‘I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland, and
finish my work in solitude’ . Before reaching Scotland, Victor
even attempts to be light-hearted and happy in the company of
others, however Shelley uses metaphor to portray his ultimate
feeling of restriction ‘I dared to shake of my chains and look
around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten
into my flesh’ . Here, the chains which confine Victor are used
to represent the confines of his constant guilt and worry about
the creature, the idea that it had ‘eaten into’ his flesh suggests
that his burden has consumed him so much that it is now
permanently part of his being.
