Summary of The Bloody Chamber x Frankenstein - AO2,3,5 + Gothic Context
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Comparative and contextual study (8100)
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OCR
Condensed Notes covering The Bloody Chamber x Frankenstein loaded with quotes, context and critics by theme for each text - perfect to formulate that A* essay !
❖ MCRAE: “Frankenstein is the new God”
❖ GARNER: “Shelley creates a situation in which it
becomes impossible to know the reliability of a given
narrator”
❖ MOERS: “The rejection of the creature is more horrific
than its creation”
❖ MELLOR: “By stealing the females control over
reproduction, Victor eliminated the female’s primary
biological function and source of cultural power”
❖ PUNTER: “Frankenstein is searching after forbidden
knowledge, and refuses to accept limitations and is
punished”
❖ MELLER: “Nature punishes Victor by denying him the
authority of creation”
❖ LODGE: “Names are never neutral, they always signify”
– Victor = Conqueror/ Elizabeth = Oath of God
❖ ROBERTS: “Shelley was fascinated by the vast but
prehaps ominous potential of science”
❖ BOTTING: “Monster’s are a terrible threat to established
order”
❖ MCWHIR: “Frankenstein’s monster can only be
educated as a human being only if society is willing to
accept him”
❖ NORTON: “The dark, irrational side of human nature”
❖ DAVENPORT-HINES: “Ambition is evil in Shelley’s
book”
AO2:
,➢ C “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear”
➢ C “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”
➢ C “You are my creator, but I am your master- Obey!”
➢ F “I was dependant on none and related to none”
➢ F “A new species would bless me its source and creator”
➢ F “I penetrated nature to her hiding places”
➢ F “Nature gave me strength”
➢ F “Your threats cannot move me to do an act of
wickedness”
, AO3:
• ‘Overreaching Heroes’ PS – Idea that men had divine
powers
• Dangerous knowledge is deeply embedded in western
culture
• Power reverses throughout the novel, you don’t have to
be born into it, you are able to earn it with the correct
information
• Male dominance and power is present in Shelley’s book
of Matilda, where there is a link to an incestual
relationship
• William Godwin believed in utilitarianism; no person is
individually important
• French Revolution (1789) was a period of racial social
and political change throughout Europe, that began with
an uprising against the king of France
• Industrial revolution was a transformation from an
agricultural nation to an industrial one
• The enlightenment was a philosophical movement which
started in Europe in the 1700s
• Bourgeoisie was the middle class whilst the Proletariat
was the working class/ FR show what happened when
lower classes are treated badly by state – they rebel
• Felicia Hermans was a 19 century poet who wrote about
th
the ways in which imperialism leads to dispersal and
breakdown
• Don Quixote was read by Shelley as she wrote the novel
and both novels start out with the noble intention of
helping their fellow creature up their aspirations are
doomed by their pursuit of a single vision
• Fraser Magazine in 1830 stated that “A state without
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