LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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He reads the Bible.
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He is taught by Victor about the Bible.
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He reads Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
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He listens outside church services.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Paradise Lost, in particular, teaches him a variety of subjects, from persuasive rhetoric to the possibilities of his own creation. He learns from and imitates the innocent characters, Adam and Eve, as well as the sinful, empathetic Satan, as the Creature desires and disrupts paradise.
Detailed explanation-2: -Paradise Lost is one of the texts that the Creature in Frankenstein reads to acquire language. After being abandoned by his creator, the Creature lives in the forest and takes solace for a short time with a family. He finds Paradise Lost among books in a forgotten knapsack.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Monster learns to read when he finds three books abandoned on the ground: Paradise Lost, Plutarch’s Lives and The Sorrows of Werter. These books point to major themes of the novel.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eden is described as a garden on a plateau-like mountain. It is surrounded by a wall and has only one entrance, guarded by angels. Milton depicts the Garden itself in lush, sensuous detail with the two trees-the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge-singled out.