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Summary notes of Part 2, Chapter 5 of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
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Summary notes of Part 2, Chapter 5 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 5When a dark and beautiful "Arabian" woman named Safie arrives at the cottage, the family's mood, and Felix's in par
brightens. Safie does not speak the family's language, and Felix teaches her from a history book. As she learns, so do
monster, which is disgusted that a race as noble as mankind is also capable of such evil. As he learns about society an
humans, the monster realizes that it has no society of its own. It is a monster, doomed to be always without family o
It wishes it had never gotten this knowledge about society, which makes it so miserable.
Themes – highlight themes and add a quote for each that are present. Links to HT
Social status/class In terms of society, one of the main things t
Loneliness and Isolation monster discovers is the vast divisions and i
Violence between different classes, races, and the ad
Language and Power of those who have money and power. Paral
Playing God between the faults of society in the 16 th/17t
Relationships and family (in which Shelley sets her novel) can be mad
Treatment of women dystopian society of Gilead in The Handmaid
Science Furthermore, in Gilead those who are of a h
Mankind and nature and respectability also hold the most wealth
Victims therefore the most power within society, w
Warnings contrasts to the inferiority and powerlessne
Quotes within the lower orders of society, such as t
Martha’s and handmaid’s, who must live in
Social status and Class- The creature learns through the reading of fear and repression. The creature lacks all t
the book ‘Ruins of empires’, the unfairness of the world ‘The division qualities that he learns can give man power
of the poverty, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, of Offred’s ability to reproduce, and status as a
descent, and noble blood’ , Shelley introduces inequality within married to a man who had been previously
society, which seems so ridiculously unfair in the eyes of the monster, means that she is forced to live a difficult an
who is unexposed to society. This makes his feelings about himself all unenjoyable life, just as the monster realise
the more worse, as he realised that he possesses nothing that is
deemed as important in society ‘no money, no friends, and no kind of
property’. Here Shelley uses repetition in the form of anaphora, first
of the preposition ‘of’ which reiterates this learning of new ideas.
Then, through the repetition of the determiner ‘no’ the creature
emphasises the negative impact of the things that he lacks.
Loneliness and isolation/ Playing god- At this point, the creature is
having a sort of existential crisis. As a topic also prominent in the
previous chapter, the creature feels isolated in the fact that he looks
different, but also that he came into the world in a different way ‘no
father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with
smiles and caresses’ he knows that this lack of a ‘mother’ and ‘father’
makes him different to the other inhabitants which walk the earth,
and this makes him feel unimaginably alone. ‘When I looked around I
saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon
the earth’ , Shelley’s separation with the use of commas, to create the
short clause ‘then’ shows the progression of the creature’s realisation
of himself as a monster, he begins to believe he should be loathed,
speaking metaphorically as himself ‘a blot upon the earth’
Treatment of women- All of the main female characters described in
the novel are beautiful, and the new character of Safie, introduced in
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