Your mission is to come up with a creative title for Chapters 12 & 13.
Write the title out in quotations
Below the title, write out a justification for your choice -- be sure to pull from those chapters specifically in order to support your title completely.
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Amy Dietz
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"Knowledge Yields Pain"
I think this title would be fitting for chapters 12 and 13 mostly because i feel that Frankenstein's monsters immense gain in knowledge during this part of the story should be highlighted. First, in chapter 12, he learned that the family in the cottage are unhappy, and it is because they are poor. Upon realizing this truth, he comes to the conclusion that if creatures so beautiful and perfect are sad then he should be miserable. Therefore, knowledge lead to pain. After realizing they are unhappy, he tries to help them and suceeds. He starts to learn how to speak french, which adds to his growth of knowledge. The biggest step he takes in learning about the world around him is when the monster sees his reflection in the pond. He understands in that moment that he can never be as happy or as normal as the cottagers. In his heart, he longs to reveal himself to the kind, gentle humans, but he is aware that doing so could backfire enormously. THis pains him, because he wants to not feel so alone in the world; this pain was brought on by the knowledge of what he really is. When Safie arrives at the beginning of chapter 13, the monster sees that the humans are happy again. While they teach her how to speak their language, Felix instructs her using a history book. The monster pays attention during these lessons and not only learns french, but also learns the way of the world. He concludes that to have money, friends, connections, and to be accepted in society are the only ways to succeed. After this realization, it hits him that he has neither friends nor the ability to obtain them without tremendous obstacles. This thought gives him great stress, which he expressed saying, "but where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses, or if they had, all my past was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing" (86). Overall, in both of these chapters every peice of knowledge that Frankstein's monster gains brings him pain and suffering.
I think this would be a good title for chapters 12 and 13 because the chapters are mainly about Frankenstein's monster learning that he is not like the other cottage members and wishes to live with them and be like them. At the beginning of the chapter, Frankenstein wishes to learn to talk like the cottage family. "This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acuainted with it," (78). The monster wishes to learn the language of he cottagers so that he may be like them. He adores the family so much and enjoys studying them that he wishes he could be like them and introduce himself to them. He wants to learn all of their history and customs in hopes that one day they will accept them. This obsession with the family causes a revelation in the monster when he realizes he does not obtain the beauty they do. When he looks at his reflection, he was "unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convincved that I w in realitythe monster that I am, I was filled with the bitteres ensations of despondence and mortification," (80). When the monster realizes how different he looks from the cottagers, he realizes that he really is a monster. This revelation causes the monster to feel pain and sorrow because he knows how different he is than the family he loved to watch. He longs to reveal himself to the family, but he is afraid they will rebuke him for his apperance. In chapter 14, the monster has another revelation about man. After listening to "Ruins of Empires," the monster wonders how man can be so powerful, yet some can be so vicious. The monster wonders how "one man could go fortj to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments," (84). The monster realizes that not all men are honorable or magnificent, but does not know how men can also be so destructive. This is ironic since later in the book he murders Frankensteins brother. Also during this chapter, the monster longs to discover what he really is. The monster knows he is not made from the same creator as the cottagers and had never seen anyone else who looks like him. These two chapters were mainly about the new information the monster obtains and his longing to figure out who/what he really is.
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2 comments:
"Knowledge Yields Pain"
I think this title would be fitting for chapters 12 and 13 mostly because i feel that Frankenstein's monsters immense gain in knowledge during this part of the story should be highlighted. First, in chapter 12, he learned that the family in the cottage are unhappy, and it is because they are poor. Upon realizing this truth, he comes to the conclusion that if creatures so beautiful and perfect are sad then he should be miserable. Therefore, knowledge lead to pain. After realizing they are unhappy, he tries to help them and suceeds. He starts to learn how to speak french, which adds to his growth of knowledge.
The biggest step he takes in learning about the world around him is when the monster sees his reflection in the pond. He understands in that moment that he can never be as happy or as normal as the cottagers. In his heart, he longs to reveal himself to the kind, gentle humans, but he is aware that doing so could backfire enormously. THis pains him, because he wants to not feel so alone in the world; this pain was brought on by the knowledge of what he really is.
When Safie arrives at the beginning of chapter 13, the monster sees that the humans are happy again. While they teach her how to speak their language, Felix instructs her using a history book. The monster pays attention during these lessons and not only learns french, but also learns the way of the world. He concludes that to have money, friends, connections, and to be accepted in society are the only ways to succeed. After this realization, it hits him that he has neither friends nor the ability to obtain them without tremendous obstacles. This thought gives him great stress, which he expressed saying, "but where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses, or if they had, all my past was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing" (86). Overall, in both of these chapters every peice of knowledge that Frankstein's monster gains brings him pain and suffering.
Samantha Hubley
"Longing and Revelations"
I think this would be a good title for chapters 12 and 13 because the chapters are mainly about Frankenstein's monster learning that he is not like the other cottage members and wishes to live with them and be like them. At the beginning of the chapter, Frankenstein wishes to learn to talk like the cottage family. "This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acuainted with it," (78). The monster wishes to learn the language of he cottagers so that he may be like them. He adores the family so much and enjoys studying them that he wishes he could be like them and introduce himself to them. He wants to learn all of their history and customs in hopes that one day they will accept them. This obsession with the family causes a revelation in the monster when he realizes he does not obtain the beauty they do. When he looks at his reflection, he was "unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convincved that I w in realitythe monster that I am, I was filled with the bitteres ensations of despondence and mortification," (80). When the monster realizes how different he looks from the cottagers, he realizes that he really is a monster. This revelation causes the monster to feel pain and sorrow because he knows how different he is than the family he loved to watch. He longs to reveal himself to the family, but he is afraid they will rebuke him for his apperance.
In chapter 14, the monster has another revelation about man. After listening to "Ruins of Empires," the monster wonders how man can be so powerful, yet some can be so vicious. The monster wonders how "one man could go fortj to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments," (84). The monster realizes that not all men are honorable or magnificent, but does not know how men can also be so destructive. This is ironic since later in the book he murders Frankensteins brother. Also during this chapter, the monster longs to discover what he really is. The monster knows he is not made from the same creator as the cottagers and had never seen anyone else who looks like him.
These two chapters were mainly about the new information the monster obtains and his longing to figure out who/what he really is.
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