The Monsters Education

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The Monsters Education

• By Jessica?Celine?Claire
• Amy Chang?Amy Lin
• Ashley Fu?Ashley Lin

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Introduction

• Hello everyone, the two main topic our group is
  going to talk about today is the monsters
  education and the humans rejection.
• Please sit back and relax ?

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Outline

• The Monsters Changes
• The Monsters Learning, Request and Victors
  Response
• The Story within the Story
• Humans Rejection of the Monster

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Changes of the Monster

• Gaining and distinguishing keen physical
  sensations mobility
• Learning to use fire and survive outdoor
• Instinctual responses and affinity to Nature.
  (Noble savage)

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Physical Responses

• A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me,
  and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same
  time and it was, indeed, a long time before I
  learned to distinguish between the operations of
  my various senses. (p.102)
• Get used to the light (102)
• Bodily coordination (102) dark and opaque bodies
  had surrounded me? walk freely

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The Moon

• Lonely and weeping ? Soon a gentle light stole
  over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of
  pleasure. (p.102)
• Confusion of feelings of light, hunger, thirst
  and darkness. ? the only object that I could
  distinguish was the bright moon (p.103)

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Defining Romanticism

• The implication of Nature, personified as female
• Reveals Natures maternal powers to the main
  characters
• Shelley uses the female Nature to redefine
  traditional Romanticism

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• Surviving Outside

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Fire --1) beginning of human civilization 2)
ref. Prometheus

• Distinguishing insect from herb, and one herb
  from another. 104
• Fire? warmth and pain (physical sensation) In
  my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but
  quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.
  (p.104)
• Raising fire I discovered the cause, and
  busied myself in collecting a great quantity of
  wood, that I might dry it, and have a plentiful
  supply of fire. (p.104)
• Functions of fire (provides warmth, heat to roast
  food) that the fire gave light as well as
  heat and that the discovery of this element was
  useful to me in my food (p.105)

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Shelter

• First finds a hut of a shepherd.
• A hovel joined to a cottage My place of refuge
  was constructed of wood, but so low that I could
  with difficulty sit upright in it. No wood,
  however, was placed on the earth, which formed
  the floor, but it was dry and although the wind
  entered it by innumerable chinks, I found it an
  agreeable asylum from the snow and rain. (p.106)
• Shelter from the inclemency of the season, and
  still more from the barbarity of man.

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The Monsters Learning
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(Language)

• Through close observation, he discovers the
  meanings of the repeated sounds, though he cannot
  use them at first.
• I cannot describe the delight I felt when I
  learned the ideas appropriated to each of these
  sounds, and was able to pronounce them. I
  distinguished several other words, without being
  able as yet to understand or apply them
  (p.112)
• I ought not to make the attempt until I had
  first become master of their language which
  knowledge might enable me to make them overlook
  the deformity of my figure (p.114)

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Learning with Safie

• The stranger learned about twenty words at the
  first lesson, most of them, indeed, were those
  which I had before understood, but I profited by
  the others. (p.117)
• she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of
  language, so that in two months I began to
  comprehend most of the words uttered by my
  protectors. (p.118)

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(Reading)

• Ruins of Empires and Plutarchs Lives
• Through this workof its original
  inhabitants.(119)
• The volume of Plutarchs Lives, which I
  possessed, contained the histories of the first
  founders of the ancient republics.(128)
• -----gt Higher thoughts.
• -----gt Knowledge of human civilization.

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• Sorrows of Werter
• In the Sorrows of Werter, besides..without
  precisely understanding it.(128)
• -----gt He had emotions, too.
• -----gt Question his existence.

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Paradise Lost ? His Desire for a Mate

• I often referred the several situationsthe
  bitter gall of envy rose within me.(129)
• -gtIdentified himself with Adam.
• -gt Long for a mate.

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Victors Response to the Monsters Need

• The monster ask Victor to create a female for
  him.
• Threatening You must create a female for
  mewhich you must not refuse to concede. (144) ?
  Victor refused.
• If I cannot inspire loveso that you shall curse
  the hour of your birth. (145)
• Reasonable I would make peace with the whole
  kinddo not deny me my request. (145-146) ?
  Victor was moved.
• If you consentand persuade you to promise what
  I so ardently desire. (146) ?Victor consent to
  his demand.

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The Monsters Learning A Summary

• ?remember the original era of the monsters
  beginning
• ?the monster didnt know how to distinguish
  between the operation of its senses
• ?the first time monster heard sound
• ?the monster found fire left by beggars
• ?found a small hut and eat the breakfast
• ?walking through the village the residents there
  are afraid of him
• ?found another cottage and the monster had lived
  there for a period of time
• ?the monster observed the people live in this
  cottage

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The Monsters Learning A Summary

• ?The monster heard the old man playing some kind
  of instrument(pp.108)
• ?the first time monster heard reading(pp.109)
• ?monster do favors to the family (pp.111)
• ?the monster start to understand some words are
  used by the family(pp.112)
• ?the monster think the cottagers are
  perfect(pp.114)
• ?the monster imagine when the family accept
  him(pp.115)

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The Story within the Story
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The Story of De Laceys Exile

• a story happened to the cottagers excites to the
  monster with the feeling of indignation, delight
  and wonder.
• a well-off family in France
• Felix wants to rescue the Turkish merchant and
  falls for his daughter, Safie
• Turkish merchant promises to the marriage of the
  two in order to flee safely
• The merchant actually doesnt agree with their
  marriage because Felix is a Christian

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The Story of De Laceys Exile

• French government finds out Felix let him go so
  captures his family
• Felix goes back to France, then be jailed for 5
  yrs
• seeking a shelter in Germany, where the monster
  finds them
• the merchant flees back to Constantinople and
  leaves her daughter to the servant
• Safie finally finds Felix.

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Story in story influenceculture

• knows how to compose fire but dont know how to
  make one
• --p.104p.105
• realize that the food will taste better when it
  had roasted
• --p.105
• the first time the monster heard the music
• --p.108
• the monster found that human use sound to
  communicate
• --p.112

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• the monster learned from the lessons that Felix
  taught Safie
• -learn how to use letter correctly p.119
• -friends and relations p.121
• three books that had taught the monster a lot
• p.128p.129
• -Sorrows of Werter
• -Plutarchs Live
• -Paradise Lost

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Story in story influencesadness

• The emotions he has never experienced p.108
• Affected by their emotions
• -p.110
• -p.112 their unhappiness let the monster feel the
  same
• -p.118
• -p.122127 the story that intrigue the monsters
  feelings
• Sympathy compared with himself(the monster)
• -- in action

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Human Rejection
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A. The reason of being rejected

• Appearance
• People judges others by their appearance
• The monster will never be accepted even he is
  kind inside
• Even though the monster saves the little girl,
  people still regard him as the bad one because of
  his appearance
• The monster thought the old man wouldnt judge
  him by his appearance

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B. Who reject the monster?

• Frankenstein
• Did not give the monster a name
• His own sin
• Villages
• threw rocks and drove away the monster
• Felix
• drove the monster away
• The man
• used a gun to shoot the monster

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C. The influence of Rejection

• Hatred
• Frankenstein
• Creates the monster, but does not have love
  toward it
• Regretful of creating the monster
• Revenge
• Frankenstein deserts the monster
• The monster killed William
• Loneliness
• No one even tries to accept it because of its
  frightening feature.
• humanity is that although there are many humans
  in the
• world, each one is alone.
• isolated himself from the world
• shunned by the world
• Disappointment
• The monster lost his hope toward human