Historical Context
Romanticism
The Gothic Novel
Psychoanalysis
Rousseau vs. Locke
100
Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the author of Frankenstein...
Who is Mary Shelley
100
List three themes of romanticism that are present in the novel
What are nature as a healing force, the supernatural, belief in innate goodness, getting away from civilization, the sublime
100
What two genres does the Gothic novel combine?
What are romance and horror
100
A. This part of the human psyche is subject to the pleasure principle. B. This part of the human psyche is subject to the reality principle. C. This part of the human psyche is subject to the morality principle.
What is A. id B. ego C.superego
100
Tabula Rasa
What is John Locke
200
The novel is set in the latter part of the ___ century
What is 18th
200
Nature is consider a constant _____ and _____
What is companion and teacher
200
List five themes and/or icons of a gothic novel
What are: architecture (castles, gargoyles, dungeons), death, POWER, the sublime, crisis, the supernatural (ghosts, demons, angels), hauntings, curses, torture, gloomy settings, secrets, murder, suicide, priests/monks, dreams
200
What is the term for a masculine symbol? What is the term for a female symbol? Give an example of each.
What are phallic and yonic. Examples will vary.
200
"Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?"
What is Rousseau
300
The two important revolutions that influenced the writing of this novel
What is the American and French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution
300
Explain the idea of "the self" in connection to "the Larger Truth"
an inner spark of divinity links one human being to another and all human beings to the Larger Truth
300
What does the setting of a gothic novel project? Give an example from the novel
What is internal conflict. Examples will vary.
300
A. What is the term for when two desires of the psyche are articulated by a single word or image in a dream. B. What is the term for when an individual moves their feelings for a particular person to an object related to him or her.
What is condensation and displacement
300
"the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted"
What is Rousseau
400
The alternate title given to the novel. Hint: Greek god
What is The Modern Prometheus
400
What did the romantics do with personal experience? Give an example from the novel
What is they made it a representative experience for/of all Examples: love, depression, self-loathing, rejection, etc
400
What is gothic archetype is Elizabeth? Explain.
What is virginal maiden. She is caring, pure, selfless, trusting, etc.
400
What are the three powerful archetypes that compose the self? Bonus if you can explain them!
What are the shadow (one's darker side), anima (the force that causes one to act/both male and female), and persona(the image we show to others).
400
"Presently I found, by the frequent recurrence of one sound which the stranger repeated after them, that she was endeavoring to learn their language"
What is Locke
500
The novel takes place at the end of this era and the beginning of this period... BONUS: what is the shift in thought between these two times?
What is a. Enlightenment and b. romantic BONUS: humans as creatures who use science and reason to shape and control their destiny to humans as creatures who rely on their emotions to determine what is right
500
The quintessential figure of the romantics was the _____. Apply to the creature and Victor
What is wanderer. The creature is on a journey to discover himself and acceptance. Frankenstein is on a journey to advance science by creating life, he is then on a journey to redeem his transgression
500
What two allusions to hell support gothicism in the novel
What is Dante's Inferno and Paradise Lost
500
Name a character archetype, an image archetype, and a situation archetype.
What are: the hero, the scapegoat, the outcast, the devil, female figure, trickster/ colors, numbers, water, gardens, circles, the sun/ the quest, death&rebirth, initiation
500
According to Rousseau man is his best version when_____
What is away from society/civilization and amongst nature
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