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Concetti Chiave

  • The plot of "Frankenstein" revolves around a Swiss scientist who creates a monstrous being from corpse parts, leading to murder and ultimately his own demise.
  • Mary Shelley's creation of "Frankenstein" draws from personal anxieties, surrounding deaths, and inspiration from ghost stories.
  • The novel is influenced by revolutionary themes, scientific interests, Rousseau's natural man, gothic taste, and romantic poetry.
  • Utilizing an epistolary narrative, the story unfolds through multiple narrators, offering different perspectives and disrupting chronological order.
  • Key themes include forbidden knowledge, the duality of characters, social injustice, and the usurpation of traditional roles by science.

Indice

  1. La trama di Frankenstein
  2. Influenze storiche e scientifiche
  3. Struttura narrativa del romanzo
  4. Temi principali del romanzo
  5. Il tema del doppio
  6. Cosa rappresenta il mostro

La trama di Frankenstein

The plot:

-is simple, Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist try to create a man combining parts selected from other corpses,

-the result of experiment is ugly and revolting,

-the monster become a murderer and in the end he kills his creator;
The origin of the model:

Probably “Frankenstein” is born from:

-Mary’s anxieties about her role of mother;

-the death that surrounded her life;

-also from other ghost stories;

Influenze storiche e scientifiche

Influences:

-historical background (the age of revolution with the theme of social justice and with the personification, in the monster of the age of revolution)

-science, she reads a lot of scientific books and she was very interested in chemistry, evolutionism and electricity, and she knew the latest scientific theories, (the monster is the result of science that is a key of the story;)

-Rousseau (the monster is the typical man of the state of nature, not influenced by civilization)

-the taste of gothic (although this novel doesn’t respect the tradition: there isn’t a castle and there aren’t supernatural events)

-romantic poems like Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. That is a story of a physical and psychological travel but it is also the tale of a crime against nature (two fundamental points of the novel)

Struttura narrativa del romanzo

Narrative structure:

-the story is not told chronologically

-this novel is told by different narrators that inform different characters giving different points of view, according to this chronological scheme: Walton to his sister, Frankenstein to Walton, Monster to Frankenstein.

-the form of the novel is epistolary, Mary Shelly wanted to disguise her voice behind male narrators.

Temi principali del romanzo

Themes:

-the research of forbidden knowledge;

-the overreacher (in Walton and Frankenstein);

-the double (Frankenstein and the monster seem to be two parts of the same being, in anticipation of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson),

-social injustice;

-the usurpation of female and god’s roles (the creation of a man become possible without the participation of women and god);

-scientific actions (of Frankenstein);

Il tema del doppio

The double:

the three most important characters are all linked to the theme of double

-Walton is a double of Frankenstein (because they have the same ambition of overcoming human limits);

-Frankenstein is the double of his creature (because they both suffer from a sense of alienation and isolation, both have the desire to be good but become observed with hate, the creature is the negative self of the scientist)

Cosa rappresenta il mostro

What the monster represents:

-the monster symbolizes the fear of technology and the repercussions of man “playing God”, it represents the product of the industrialization that can gives bad results;

-It may be a symbol of the outcast from society: the weak the poor the dispossessed and a comment on the way that society treats them.

-It may be a symbol of human nature;

-It may be a symbol of the parent child relationship;

Domande da interrogazione

  1. Qual è il tema principale del romanzo "Frankenstein" di Mary Shelley?
  2. Il tema principale del romanzo è la ricerca della conoscenza proibita e le conseguenze di "giocare a fare Dio", rappresentato dalla creazione del mostro da parte di Frankenstein.

  3. Quali influenze storiche e letterarie hanno ispirato Mary Shelley nella scrittura di "Frankenstein"?
  4. Mary Shelley è stata influenzata dal contesto storico dell'epoca delle rivoluzioni, dalla scienza, dalle teorie di Rousseau, dal gusto gotico e dai poemi romantici come "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" di Coleridge.

  5. Come è strutturato narrativamente il romanzo "Frankenstein"?
  6. Il romanzo è strutturato in forma epistolare e non è raccontato cronologicamente. La storia è narrata da diversi personaggi, offrendo vari punti di vista: Walton scrive alla sorella, Frankenstein racconta a Walton, e il mostro narra a Frankenstein.

  7. Cosa simboleggia il mostro nel romanzo "Frankenstein"?
  8. Il mostro simboleggia la paura della tecnologia e delle sue conseguenze, l'emarginato dalla società, la natura umana e il rapporto genitore-figlio.

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