Monster's Thoughts
What 2-word description does the author call the De Lacey that the creature pictures them to be?
The De Lacey family are seen as “perfect forms” that the creature visions to be the ideal body.
What does pharmakon mean?
Something that can be both medicinal and poisonous.
What is the specific book mentioned in the article that the creature references?
Paradise Lost
What does the author say about the creature’s awareness once it has mastered human language?
The “sharper his awareness of his deformity and his friendless life” (224)
became.
What does tabula rasa mean?
The idea that babies are born as a blank slate.
What does the Author say that the creature discovers with more knowledge?
That human beings are just as monstrous.
Why does the creature say he is more miserable than Satan?
“Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him," (225) but he is solitary and abhorred.
What is Lacan’s notion of the mirror stage?
The mirror stage is when the ego is first developed and an infant identifies itself.
In what way does the monster specifically describe mankind at the end of the article?
He states that mankind is “so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base” (225)