Question Comparative topic HMT- quote/note on language Frankenstein-quote/ Context? Comparisons/link to
focus sentence + effects note on language + question
effects
Storytelling There is a sense of ‘this is a reconstruction’- sense of bias as Walton F: In both texts a
methods unreliability and bias shows what she said might not admires Victor -Epistolary followed by fragmented narrative is
through those that be completely factual. “He is so gentle, yet so events in chronological used with a sense of
are telling the story. “Reconstruction” is repeated wise; his mind is so order is typically shown bias coming from
often throughout the novel,
cultivated” - by in Gothic literature. In characters rather than
showing the level of unreliability
continuously listing Gothic literature there an external narrator.
of the text.
‘I can’t remember exactly, admirable qualities of are many unreliable
because I had no way of Victor, Walton’s previous narrators such as Edgar While HMT is non-
writing it down’-her lack of state of loneliness is Allan Poe in the “The chronological and
preciseness shows she can be an reaffirmed as a clear Tell-Tale Heart” where Palimpsests (Offred’s
unreliable narrator. parallel of how his mood he insists to the reader recorded tapes; epitaphs
‘you always have to leave that he is not mad, and inscriptions)
had changed once he
something out, there are too which only serves to And has messages
met Victor is presented.
many parts, sides, convince the reader that rewritten as revised for
Contrasts his previous he is. the purpose of the
crosscurrents, nuances’- listing quote of “I have no
shows the number of factors that storyteller, Frankenstein
friend, Margaret” and “I -Chinese box narrative: is an epistolary style,
Offred is unaware of. “Parts” bitterly feel the want of
and “sides” give connotations to this means that there is chronological text, both
a friend”- constantly narration within texts are able to show
details and intricacy, something
repeating “friend” to narrations. Can show great levels of
Offred cannot obtain
show how he feels Victor unreliability as Walton unreliability.
is his friend due to his is determining how
We learn she is also a flawed change of mood. each character is Both texts can be seen
narrator due to her lies in the reacting. to have a sense of bias,
past e.g., how she first met coming from side
Luke: “when Luke was still in characters (Walton and
flight from his wife”- her being the Professor) narrating
from the viewpoint of
, ok with the cheating questions the protagonist in the
her morals from the outset. But majority of the novel.
shows her contrasting nature to
the regime which would hang There’s disconnect
people for adultery. between story, plot and
narrator
"I would like to believe
this is a story I'm telling.
I need to believe it. I
must believe it. Those
who can believe that
such stories are only
stories have a better
chance. If it's a story I'm
telling, then I have
control over the ending. HMT ending is vaguer
than F as we do not
know what happens to
Male Gaze- masculine
Offred and how society
perspective
Narrators is after the regime as it
Victor’s belief that he is speculated to still be
demonstrate poor
was worse off than sexist due to the
knowledge of self Doppelgänger idea. The
and in doing so Justine through professor. This can be
Professor’s researching men comparative language: creature ironically has
become seen as more
more than women. Has the same ‘poor victim, who on many similarities to
unsympathetic/frustr frustrating, but also
insidious attitudes about women the morrow was to pass Victor. The creature’s
ating to readers. creates hope that Offred
at the end despite the end of the the awful boundary ugliness makes him the
found peace.
regime. After commenting between life and death, image of a purely
mostly only on the men in the felt not, as I did, such intellectual, heartless
regime he ends the novel with deep and bitter agony.’ Victor, the opposite of
Both Victor and the
“Are there any questions?”- the young man who
professor are unaware
ending a feminist novel with the Victor had many begins his studies with
of their hypocrisy.
questioning voice of a man similarities to the hope and the desire to
focus sentence + effects note on language + question
effects
Storytelling There is a sense of ‘this is a reconstruction’- sense of bias as Walton F: In both texts a
methods unreliability and bias shows what she said might not admires Victor -Epistolary followed by fragmented narrative is
through those that be completely factual. “He is so gentle, yet so events in chronological used with a sense of
are telling the story. “Reconstruction” is repeated wise; his mind is so order is typically shown bias coming from
often throughout the novel,
cultivated” - by in Gothic literature. In characters rather than
showing the level of unreliability
continuously listing Gothic literature there an external narrator.
of the text.
‘I can’t remember exactly, admirable qualities of are many unreliable
because I had no way of Victor, Walton’s previous narrators such as Edgar While HMT is non-
writing it down’-her lack of state of loneliness is Allan Poe in the “The chronological and
preciseness shows she can be an reaffirmed as a clear Tell-Tale Heart” where Palimpsests (Offred’s
unreliable narrator. parallel of how his mood he insists to the reader recorded tapes; epitaphs
‘you always have to leave that he is not mad, and inscriptions)
had changed once he
something out, there are too which only serves to And has messages
met Victor is presented.
many parts, sides, convince the reader that rewritten as revised for
Contrasts his previous he is. the purpose of the
crosscurrents, nuances’- listing quote of “I have no
shows the number of factors that storyteller, Frankenstein
friend, Margaret” and “I -Chinese box narrative: is an epistolary style,
Offred is unaware of. “Parts” bitterly feel the want of
and “sides” give connotations to this means that there is chronological text, both
a friend”- constantly narration within texts are able to show
details and intricacy, something
repeating “friend” to narrations. Can show great levels of
Offred cannot obtain
show how he feels Victor unreliability as Walton unreliability.
is his friend due to his is determining how
We learn she is also a flawed change of mood. each character is Both texts can be seen
narrator due to her lies in the reacting. to have a sense of bias,
past e.g., how she first met coming from side
Luke: “when Luke was still in characters (Walton and
flight from his wife”- her being the Professor) narrating
from the viewpoint of
, ok with the cheating questions the protagonist in the
her morals from the outset. But majority of the novel.
shows her contrasting nature to
the regime which would hang There’s disconnect
people for adultery. between story, plot and
narrator
"I would like to believe
this is a story I'm telling.
I need to believe it. I
must believe it. Those
who can believe that
such stories are only
stories have a better
chance. If it's a story I'm
telling, then I have
control over the ending. HMT ending is vaguer
than F as we do not
know what happens to
Male Gaze- masculine
Offred and how society
perspective
Narrators is after the regime as it
Victor’s belief that he is speculated to still be
demonstrate poor
was worse off than sexist due to the
knowledge of self Doppelgänger idea. The
and in doing so Justine through professor. This can be
Professor’s researching men comparative language: creature ironically has
become seen as more
more than women. Has the same ‘poor victim, who on many similarities to
unsympathetic/frustr frustrating, but also
insidious attitudes about women the morrow was to pass Victor. The creature’s
ating to readers. creates hope that Offred
at the end despite the end of the the awful boundary ugliness makes him the
found peace.
regime. After commenting between life and death, image of a purely
mostly only on the men in the felt not, as I did, such intellectual, heartless
regime he ends the novel with deep and bitter agony.’ Victor, the opposite of
Both Victor and the
“Are there any questions?”- the young man who
professor are unaware
ending a feminist novel with the Victor had many begins his studies with
of their hypocrisy.
questioning voice of a man similarities to the hope and the desire to
