Your mission is to come up with a creative title for Chapters 14 & 15.
- 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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Sarah Kapelner
"If Only The Whole World Was Blind"
I thought this was a suitable title for chapters 14 and 15 because the two chapters mention prejudices and the negative impact they have on living things. The prejudice in chapter 14 was towards Safie’s father when he was sent to prison. The courts reasoning for Safie’s father’s imprisonment showed some prejudice towards his religion. The monster says “The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation” (86). As a result of this prejudice Safie’s father was sent on the run and Felix got his heart broken as well as his family’s wealth confiscated.
The prejudice that occurred in chapter 15 was that of the cottagers towards Frankenstein’s monster. When the family returns home they violently drive the monster out of their cottage all because of his ghastly appearance. “Who can describe their horror and consternation upon beholding me? Agatha fainted; and Safie, unable to attend to her fried, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with a supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung…” (97). The blind DeLacey, however, did not show any prejudice towards Frankenstein’s monster because he could not see his horrifying appearance. If the cottagers acquainted themselves with Frankenstein’s monster before expressing their disapproval of him the monster would not have experienced bitter disappointment and he would not have been flooded with feelings of despondency towards his goal of making connections with humans. If all people were blind the heartache caused by prejudices would not exist.
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