LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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His habitat is equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
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He is a mistake.
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He is the first of his kind.
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He is responsible for the burden of original sin.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Victor Frankenstein’s creation of his creature puts him at a parallel to God, his dismissive abandonment of his “Adam ” makes him the tyrannical God from Milton’s Paradise Lost while his over achieving ambition and apathetic lack of concern towards the pain and suffering of others puts him at par with Lucifer.
Detailed explanation-2: -The monster conceives of himself as a tragic figure, comparing himself to both Adam and Satan. Like Adam, he is shunned by his creator, though he strives to be good.
Detailed explanation-3: -The monster would be like Adam because Adam was a creation of God. Adam then committed a sin by disobeying God, and the monster ended up killing Victor ‘s friends and family, which would make them both evil. Shelley could be mocking the concept of a god, and Christianity itself.
Detailed explanation-4: -He pleads, “I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.” In these lines, Shelley alludes to the Biblical creation story of Adam and to Milton’s Paradise Lost. The monster likens himself to Adam, the first human created in the Bible.
Detailed explanation-5: -When Frankenstein came out in 1818, many critics bashed it. “What a tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity this work presents, ” John Croker, of the Quarterly Review, wrote. But gothic novels were all the rage, and Frankenstein soon gained readers.