Thursday, March 24, 2011

Dev's Enlightenment Posts

“I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world” said Victor Frankenstein. The quote exemplifies the idea of misused knowledge which spurred Victor to create the Monster. Knowledge was very important to the enlightenment thinkers and they wanted secular knowledge and so Shelley says in this quote that the misuse of knowledge can lead to your downfall. This idea relates to the French Revolution that was sparked by the Enlightenment and led Napoleon Bonaparte to power. Shelley also states the relationship between creator and being, giving a sort of satire of God and us as we were created by God.

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“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.’ Said the Monster. This quote ties into my previous research because it precisely demonstrates to us that the Monster is an evil being worthy of no person’s affection. The hate of the world against him, The Monster does not fight back which unlike the stereotypical perception of a monster we have in our minds. In this way, we can say that The Monster has some compassion and empathy for human life even though he is so despised he wishes he were never born.





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