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Summary Notes on Part 2, Chapter 4 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Summary Notes on Part 2, Chapter 4 of Frankenstein. Includes summary of events, key sections of analysis and links to The Handmaid's Tale.
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Frankenstein Part 2 Chapter 4The monster wonders why the family seems unhappy and realizes it is because the old man is blind and the family is
and hungry. To make up for adding to their misery by eating their food, it gathers wood for them and leaves it outsid
cottage at night. It also realizes they communicate through sound, and sets about learning their language. It learns th
young man is named Felix, and the girl, Agatha. One day the monster sees itself in a pool of water. He realizes finally
people have screamed and run when they see him. Yet the monster becomes convinced that with gentle words and
he could get the family to see past his awful appearance. Spring comes, lifting everyone's spirits. The monster looks t
future with hope.
Themes – highlight themes and add a quote for each that are Links to HT
present.
Social status/class The ‘first little white flower’ that Felix picks fo
Loneliness and Isolation Agatha could be treated as a symbol for wom
Violence fertility, particularly with the colour ‘white’ a
Language and Power symbol for young innocence and purity. This
Playing God be compared to the use of symbolic flower im
Relationships and family throughout the handmaid’s tale; in particular
Treatment of women tulips which are symbolic of the handmaid’s a
Science their clothes but also their role in society- red
Mankind and nature colour of blood which reminds us of the men
Victims function. Therefore, the tulips contrast comp
Warnings to the white flower, through the concepts of
Quotes innocence and purity, compared to the functi
reproduction, which corrupts innocence.
Social status/class- ‘I discovered one of the causes of uneasiness of
this amiable family; it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a The way that the creature relies on his learni
very distressing degree’ The creature does not immediately realise words to improve his life, and hopefully help
that the cottagers are poor, seeing that they must be wealthy, as make up for his appearance in the eyes of the
they have food, and shelter, and people who love them. Through cottagers. This could be paralleled with the w
this, his true innocence and ignorance to the world around him is which Offred is very reliant on the language t
exposed; he simply sees the basic values that should make people uses in her own head to keep herself sane, as
happy in their lives, not the monetary values that other people rely depicted through the use of wordplay throug
on. the novel. So both characters find comfort an
consolidation through language.
Loneliness and isolation- The monster feels isolated by his
appearance in contrast to the ‘Grace, beauty, and delicate
complexions’ , he is miserable and bitter at his own appearance ‘I
became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am’.
His use of tenses is very interesting here, as he ‘became’ convinced,
in the past tense that he ‘was’ the monster that he now presently
claims ‘I am’. It as is he is reflecting on this moment, as a moment of
daunting realisation of his ugliness, and therefore that he will never
be accepted by man.
Language and power- The creature realises that his appearance will
scare the cottagers, however he believes that by learning their
language, he will be able to impress them ‘By my gentle demeanour
and conciliating words, I should win their favour’, at this point
Shelley gives the reader hope in the power of language and
behaviour , ‘conciliating words’. The reader is made to believe in the
potential good of society.
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