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Frankenstein

Frankenstein. A scene taken from the film version of Frankenstein directed by James Whale in 1931, starring Boris Karloff. Frankenstein. 1. Mary Shelley’s life. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, both believers in the Enlightened power of reason .

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Frankenstein

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  1. Frankenstein A scene taken from the film version of Frankenstein directed by James Whale in 1931, starring Boris Karloff.

  2. Frankenstein 1. Mary Shelley’s life • The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, both believers in the Enlightened power of reason. • She eloped to France with the Romantic poet Percy B. Shelley. • The writing of Frankensteintook place at Villa Diodation the banks of Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley The Prose and the Passion

  3. Frankenstein 2. Frankenstein and its plot • Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, creates a human being by joining parts selected from corpses. • The result of the experiment is uglyand revolting. The Prose and the Passion

  4. Frankenstein 2. Frankenstein and its plot • TheMonsterbecomes a murderer. • At the end he destroys his creator. • The story is introduced by a series of letters written by Walton, a young explorer on an expedition voyage to the North Pole, to his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. The Prose and the Passion

  5. Frankenstein 3. The influence of science The protagonist of Frankenstein is the first embodiment of the theme of science The latest scientific theories of chemistry and electricity influenced Mary Shelley He creates a human being through the use of electricity and chemistry The Prose and the Passion

  6. Frankenstein 4. Influences: from Prometheus to Frankenstein • The myth of Prometheus  Frankenstein is an example of overreacher. • Rousseau The Monster is a noble savage. • Locke The Monster’s self-awareness and his education. The Prose and the Passion

  7. Frankenstein 4. Influences: from Prometheus to Frankenstein • Gothic stories read by Mary and Percy B. Shelley. • S. T. Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner Both the novel and the poem are stories of a crime against nature. The Prose and the Passion

  8. Frankenstein 5. Narrative structure: an epistolary novel Walton’s narration to his sister Margaret Walton Saville (chapters 1-10) Frankenstein’s narration to Walton (chapters 11-17) The Monster’s narration to Frankenstein (chapters 18-24) The Prose and the Passion

  9. Frankenstein 6. Main characters • Both Captain Walton and Doctor Frankensteintried to go beyond human limits. • The Monsteris complementary to his creator: they both suffer from isolation and they both begin with a desire to be good. The Prose and the Passion

  10. Frankenstein 7. Themes • The quest for forbidden knowledge(Walton and Dr Frankenstein) is related to the theme of the overreacher. • The double(Dr Frankensteinand the Monster). The Prose and the Passion

  11. Frankenstein 7. Themes • The overcoming of natural and divine rules  the creation of a human being without the participation of a woman. • Social prejudices  the Monster as an outcast. • Education and experience the Monster’s intellectual and emotional development. The Prose and the Passion

  12. Frankenstein 8. Frankenstein on the screen A being created by man Boris Karloff in Frankenstein by James Whale, 1931 Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh, 1994 The Prose and the Passion

  13. Frankenstein 9. Frankenstein and cloning Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copyof another. This means that every single bit of DNA is the same between the two. Can you consider the Monstera sort of a clone? Sheep cloning. The Prose and the Passion

  14. Frankenstein 10. Cloning steps The first transgenic mouse was born European Parliament voted against therapeutic cloning Sheep Dolly was born Scientists discovered stem cells inside placenta and amniotic fluid able to give rise to specialized cells 1952 1982 1984 1996 1998 2000 2001 2007 ‘Embryo splitting’ technique was discovered: from a single embryo, 5 identical sheep were obtained Thomson found out embryo stem cells First nuclear transposition of the nucleus of a frog embryo cell The Advanced Cell Technology announced its success in cloning a human embryo The Prose and the Passion

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