FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Homer’s Odyssey
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Paradise Lost
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Plutarch’s Lives
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Detailed explanation-1: -There are multiple character parallels between Frankenstein and the Creature and God, Satan, and Adam, and furthermore, the text of Paradise Lost is referenced several times in Frankenstein.
Detailed explanation-2: -Paradise Lost is attractive to the creature, because he does not know, where he comes from as he can not tell how his creator made him. He reads it “as a true Wuggenig 6 history” (Shelley, 209). Paradise Lost is thus “the monster’s bible” (Newlyn, 136).
Detailed explanation-3: -Paradise Lost, by the English poet John Milton, is the most significant of the three books. It tells the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, focusing on Satan’s ambition and alienation from God. The Monster frequently compares himself to both Satan and Adam.
Detailed explanation-4: -Victor Frankenstein, playing God, resembles Satan from Milton’s Paradise Lost, in which Satan is an archangel punished for his vanity, arrogance, and thirst for forbidden knowledge. Like him, Victor attempts to take over God’s role as creator and master of the universe.
Detailed explanation-5: -The monster begins his own education, reading the books and notes that he found in Victor’s jacket in the nearby woods. In the jacket pocket are Milton’s Paradise Lost, Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Goethe’s Sorrows of Werter.