Biblical imagery

• Gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you


  • Biblical imagery
  • Serpent being threatening and of harm
  • Deadly
  • Cruelty
  • Suffering
  • Verb of sting being agony
  • Regret
  • Discomfort
  • Suffering and unfortunate
  • Messing with creation - tree of knowledge warning against disrupting God's creation
• Bless me as creator


  • Godlike imagery
  • God
  • Worship
  • Power
  • Irony of Victor not honouring God as true and perfectly creator but himself as the better creator but turns out to be imperfect
  • Paradise lost
  • Romanticism
  • Ambition corrupts the duty to respect creation
• Frankenstein meddles with forbidden knowledge like Adam and Eve, suffering misery and isolation as a result.
• What glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man in vulnerable to any, but a violent death?


  Victor (Chapter 2), Ambition, Arrogance, playing God
• Or rather, the evil influence, the angel of destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps to my father‘s door, let me first to M. Krempe


  Victor (Chapter 3), Foreshadow, Religous imagery, power of supernatural
• Have indeed performed miracles/ they ascend into the heavens/ they can command the thunders of heaven / they penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding place


  Waldman’s lecture

  • Playing God.
  • Meddling with nature and creation.
  • Religous imagery.
  • Ambition.
  • Personify nature
• Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm


  Victor (Chapter 4)
• Pour a torrent of light into our dark world

  Victor on creating the creature.

  • Playing God.
  • Genesis ‘Let there be light’