CONTEXT: PROSE
Frankenstein – Shelley NLMG – Ishiguro
NV 1 3 male narrators emphasise the Kathy as an unreliable narrator may
consequences of the lack of women be transcendent of Ishiguro’s
in society = infuenced by mother message in which the consequences
who was a feminist writer of this sort of science is unreliable
“Vindication of the Rights of Women” i.e. we don’t know what may
happen
NV 2 Theme of the unexpected. Creature is The novel is writen retrospectivelyy
presented as educated (language) & Kathy is retelling her story/life
he overthrows Frankenstein therefore suggesting that such
(unexpected). Like 1789 French cloning in society may have already
Revolution whereby it was happened (alarming to society)
unexpected for the people to give examples of cloning already
overthrow the landed gentry occurred e.g. Dolly the Sheep 1996
Setting 1 Romanticism – focus on the subline Clones don’t return to Hailsham
and profound things e.g. the Arctic once they leave. Like how Ishiguro
large expanses of ice (born in Japan 1954) only returned
many years later in 1989
Setting 2 Quite dark setng i.e. mountainsy Ishiguro sets the novel in England as
darkness etc. like the endless winter a message illustrating how these
of 1816 concepts are not so far-fetched and
is enhanced by the 1998 1st hybrid
human cloning by Advanced Cell
Technology (ACT)
Time 1 Shelley = born in 1797 & so was At the beginning and end of the
aware of the French Revolution novel Kathy is 31y the novel is set in
Initial peasant uprisings of the the 1990s so the clones were
Revolutiony desperate for food and created in the post-war era.
shelter (like the creature in his early Similarlyy Ishiguro was born in in the
days). Howevery they turn post-war era and lived in England
increasingly to violence with the rise from the 1960s onwards.
of Marat and Robespierrey like the
creature also turns to violence as it
seems to be the only method that
humans take notice of
Time 2 Shelley takes things out of sequence - Ishiguro talks about Tommy's donor
at the moment of making the centre being an ex-1960s holiday
creature Victor dreams of his village with all the expectations of
mum/Elizabeth (voice of cautionn) Butlins/cheap concrete building etcy
he doesn't listen - but Shelley is no longer ft for purpose but now
suggesting we do have a sense of being used for dodgy science making
moral right wrong but allow this concept not seem so far-fetched
ambition to obscure it typically as these are relatable concepts/
Romantic that the lesson comes from places and relate to the readers time
innate nature rather than from period perfectly = unsetling
external government.
Characterisatio Regarding the creaturey it seems to All the clones are seen as sub-
n1 refect the Phhilosopher John oocke’s human with no rightsy they are
Frankenstein – Shelley NLMG – Ishiguro
NV 1 3 male narrators emphasise the Kathy as an unreliable narrator may
consequences of the lack of women be transcendent of Ishiguro’s
in society = infuenced by mother message in which the consequences
who was a feminist writer of this sort of science is unreliable
“Vindication of the Rights of Women” i.e. we don’t know what may
happen
NV 2 Theme of the unexpected. Creature is The novel is writen retrospectivelyy
presented as educated (language) & Kathy is retelling her story/life
he overthrows Frankenstein therefore suggesting that such
(unexpected). Like 1789 French cloning in society may have already
Revolution whereby it was happened (alarming to society)
unexpected for the people to give examples of cloning already
overthrow the landed gentry occurred e.g. Dolly the Sheep 1996
Setting 1 Romanticism – focus on the subline Clones don’t return to Hailsham
and profound things e.g. the Arctic once they leave. Like how Ishiguro
large expanses of ice (born in Japan 1954) only returned
many years later in 1989
Setting 2 Quite dark setng i.e. mountainsy Ishiguro sets the novel in England as
darkness etc. like the endless winter a message illustrating how these
of 1816 concepts are not so far-fetched and
is enhanced by the 1998 1st hybrid
human cloning by Advanced Cell
Technology (ACT)
Time 1 Shelley = born in 1797 & so was At the beginning and end of the
aware of the French Revolution novel Kathy is 31y the novel is set in
Initial peasant uprisings of the the 1990s so the clones were
Revolutiony desperate for food and created in the post-war era.
shelter (like the creature in his early Similarlyy Ishiguro was born in in the
days). Howevery they turn post-war era and lived in England
increasingly to violence with the rise from the 1960s onwards.
of Marat and Robespierrey like the
creature also turns to violence as it
seems to be the only method that
humans take notice of
Time 2 Shelley takes things out of sequence - Ishiguro talks about Tommy's donor
at the moment of making the centre being an ex-1960s holiday
creature Victor dreams of his village with all the expectations of
mum/Elizabeth (voice of cautionn) Butlins/cheap concrete building etcy
he doesn't listen - but Shelley is no longer ft for purpose but now
suggesting we do have a sense of being used for dodgy science making
moral right wrong but allow this concept not seem so far-fetched
ambition to obscure it typically as these are relatable concepts/
Romantic that the lesson comes from places and relate to the readers time
innate nature rather than from period perfectly = unsetling
external government.
Characterisatio Regarding the creaturey it seems to All the clones are seen as sub-
n1 refect the Phhilosopher John oocke’s human with no rightsy they are
