Your mission is to come up with a creative title for Chapters 16 & 17
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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Nidhi Nivarthi
"Anger"
I think "Anger" would be a good title for chapters 16 and 17 because these are the chapters following the creature's visit to the blind man's house. After he is discovered at the house, he is beaten and forced to leave the cottage. At this point, the creature explains how he felt hatred and disgust at humans who looked at him and turned in horror. "All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin," is how the creature explains his emotions (97). He wants to treat humans the way they have treated him. In chapters 16 and 17 he has to decide what he should do. He wants to forget about hiding and being hidden from the world. Then, as he travels looking for Geneva, he sees a girl who trips into the river. On instinct, he goes to save her but as soon as a man sees him, he snatches the girl from his arms and fires a gun at him. The monster was deeply angered and hurt by this action. He saved the girl who might have drowned and he still gets treated harshly. Next, the monster kills the little boy he catches as he was walking. The creature has become crueler due to his anger and rage. He cannot tolerate how humans take one look at him and try to wound him. The readers also discover that the monster was very upset upon discovering that his creator wanted him dead as well. The man who made him did not even have any respect for him. All of these events anger the creature for obvious reasons. No one wants to feel hated or frowned upon because they are different. The creature had to teach himself how to get along in the world, without help from anyone, not even Frankenstein, who created him and left him deserted. It makes him feel like a child who was ditched by his father. After finishing his story, the creature, out of loneliness, asks Frankenstein to make him a lady partner, one he could spend his time. He promised that he would disappear from humans with her and never bother anyone again. He convinces Frankenstein to give his consent. He believes he would be doing better for everyone by letting the monster leave. The creature's anger subsides by the end of these chapters as he is content for now with the promise from Frankenstein for a companion.
In spanish literature, it is common for the author to name the work of literature by what is going to happen in the story, so I took this approach from the perspective of Frankenstein's monster, because it is him who is is unwanted and in need of a favor. he is unwanted by every person he meets because of his physical deformities and ghoulish appearence. An example of this is a little boy he meets. He tries to be friendly to the boy, but the boy took the monster's touch as a threat, and said, "let me go, monster! ugly wretch! you wish to eat me and tear me to pieces-- You are an ogre-- let me go, or I will tell papa" (102). The boy is clearly resentful and terrefied of the monster which is why he is considered unwanted. THe monster is also in need of a favor, because at the beginning of chapter 17 or XVII he says, "you must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being" (104) This may sound more like a demand, but the ability of Frankenstein to nmake a wife and please his monster, and the contentment the monster would recieve if Frankenstein obliged is like a favor. After that part of the chapter, nothing much happens except for the contemplation of Frankenstein to oblige to his monster. The monster threatens him, but by the end of the chapter he does not harm his creator yet. That is why the title of 16-17 should be "Unwanted and in Need of a Favor" It is a summary of the section from the monster's point of views
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2 comments:
Nidhi Nivarthi
"Anger"
I think "Anger" would be a good title for chapters 16 and 17 because these are the chapters following the creature's visit to the blind man's house. After he is discovered at the house, he is beaten and forced to leave the cottage. At this point, the creature explains how he felt hatred and disgust at humans who looked at him and turned in horror. "All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin," is how the creature explains his emotions (97). He wants to treat humans the way they have treated him. In chapters 16 and 17 he has to decide what he should do. He wants to forget about hiding and being hidden from the world. Then, as he travels looking for Geneva, he sees a girl who trips into the river. On instinct, he goes to save her but as soon as a man sees him, he snatches the girl from his arms and fires a gun at him. The monster was deeply angered and hurt by this action. He saved the girl who might have drowned and he still gets treated harshly. Next, the monster kills the little boy he catches as he was walking. The creature has become crueler due to his anger and rage. He cannot tolerate how humans take one look at him and try to wound him. The readers also discover that the monster was very upset upon discovering that his creator wanted him dead as well. The man who made him did not even have any respect for him. All of these events anger the creature for obvious reasons. No one wants to feel hated or frowned upon because they are different. The creature had to teach himself how to get along in the world, without help from anyone, not even Frankenstein, who created him and left him deserted. It makes him feel like a child who was ditched by his father.
After finishing his story, the creature, out of loneliness, asks Frankenstein to make him a lady partner, one he could spend his time. He promised that he would disappear from humans with her and never bother anyone again. He convinces Frankenstein to give his consent. He believes he would be doing better for everyone by letting the monster leave. The creature's anger subsides by the end of these chapters as he is content for now with the promise from Frankenstein for a companion.
Jeff Rossi
"Unwanted and in Need of a Favor"
In spanish literature, it is common for the author to name the work of literature by what is going to happen in the story, so I took this approach from the perspective of Frankenstein's monster, because it is him who is is unwanted and in need of a favor. he is unwanted by every person he meets because of his physical deformities and ghoulish appearence. An example of this is a little boy he meets. He tries to be friendly to the boy, but the boy took the monster's touch as a threat, and said, "let me go, monster! ugly wretch! you wish to eat me and tear me to pieces-- You are an ogre-- let me go, or I will tell papa" (102). The boy is clearly resentful and terrefied of the monster which is why he is considered unwanted. THe monster is also in need of a favor, because at the beginning of chapter 17 or XVII he says, "you must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being" (104) This may sound more like a demand, but the ability of Frankenstein to nmake a wife and please his monster, and the contentment the monster would recieve if Frankenstein obliged is like a favor. After that part of the chapter, nothing much happens except for the contemplation of Frankenstein to oblige to his monster. The monster threatens him, but by the end of the chapter he does not harm his creator yet. That is why the title of 16-17 should be "Unwanted and in Need of a Favor" It is a summary of the section from the monster's point of views
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