Mary Shelley
Point of view
| Robert Walton | Victor | The Creature |
| Letter 1 | Vol I chapter 1 | Vol II ch 3 |
| Letter 2 | Vol I chapter 2 | Vol II ch 4 |
| Letter 3 | Vol I chapter 3 | Vol II ch 5 |
| Letter 4 | Vol I chapter 4 | Vol II ch 6 |
| Note 26 august | Vol I chapter 5 | Vol II ch 7 |
| Note 2 september | Vol I chapter 6 | Vol II ch 8 |
| Note 5 september | Vol I chapter 7 | |
| Note 7 september | Vol I chapter 8 | |
| Note 12 september | Vol II ch 1 | |
| Vol II ch 2 | ||
| Vol II ch 9 | ||
| Vol III ch 1 | ||
| Vol III ch 2 | ||
| Vol III ch 3 | ||
| Vol III ch 4 | ||
| Vol III ch 5 | ||
| Vol III ch 6 | ||
| Vol III ch 7 |
Themes
- youth
- great enterprise
- peril
- sacrifices – hard work
- adventure – desire to achieve great objectives
- relationship between creator and creation – the object of creation:
God/man
father/son
artist/work of art
teacher/student
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setting: young and positive England of the first Industrial Revolution (the mood of The Tyger by Blake?) that dives into the conquest of the world, that wants to dominate the elements, that wants to dominate the foundations of life, counting on its own knowledge and strength.
Sources
Dr. Faustus (Marlowe); Romanticism in Europe is fascinated by the mith of Faustus. J.J.Rousseau for the effect of society on human beings (innocence spoiled by society);
The Tempest by Shakespeare (the relationship between Caliban and Prospero (I acknowledge this thing of darkness as mine) (You taught me language and the profit I got is that I can curse);
Wordsworth and Shelley for their idea of nature– Sublime;
The rhyme of the ancient mariner – Coleridge
Paradise Lost – Milton