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#6 frankenstein isolaton doppelganger

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  • Victor and the creature are “doubles” (or mirrors) of each other because they are both struck with the inability to successfully communicate with society. This theme demonstrates the balance of the conscious and unconscious aspects of human behavior.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source shows the doppelganger between the monster and Victor as they are doubles of each other. One of their connections is the fact that both are isolated and cannot communicate with society. This leads to the theme of isolation.
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frankenstein #2 doppelganger foil

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  • Many commentators have viewed the monster as Dr. Frankenstein's double, an example of the doppelgänger archetype. In a similar vein, critics have discussed Dr. Frankenstein and the monster as embodying Sigmund Freud's theory of id and ego.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source references to the comparison between Victor and the monster. Thus the two are doppelgangers while they are also each others foils. They cannot survive without being near each other, and while they share many traits, one has the traits that the other lacks.
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  • Frankenstein and his creation may even represent one being -- two sides of a single entity forming a doppelganger relationship. However, it is difficult to decipher which represent good and which represents evil -- the man or the monster.
  • It is as if he is fated to create the monster. This lack of control may come both from the evil inside him, as well as outer forces of the world. Victor Frankenstein seems to be a tragically flawed character.
  • Sydney C on 21 Feb 12
     
    Mary Shelley's perceptions of science and the dangerous power it potentially holds are intuitive. Modern day science deals daily with the exact issues of which Shelley was apparently keenly aware. She introduces ethics to the study of science, even gives science a conscious. As the monster acts on Frankenstein's conscious, some would say that Mary Shelley writes literature to act as science's conscious. It was as if she acknowledged that the future of science, if uncontrolled, could be disastrous. science and the negative effects. shelley is trying to point out the danger of community too controlled by science
  • Evan G on 21 Feb 12
     
    Discusses the dual identity of Frankenstein and his monster as doppelgangers, as well as the tragic flaws in Frankenstein himself. It discusses Frankenstein's transformation from innocently curious student to crazy, egotistical scientist
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Frankenstein doppelganger

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  • Willie C on 21 Feb 12
     
    "We may visualise Frankenstein's doppelgänger or Monster firstly as representing reason in isolation, since he is the creature of an obsessional rational effort"
  • Willie C on 21 Feb 12
     
    This source provides a detailed look at the monster and his role as a doppelganger to Frankenstein. It explains the monsters role, and how it evolves through the story.
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frankenstein doppelganger themes

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  • Sydney C on 21 Feb 12
     
    There is ample evidence in the novel that the creature functions as the scientist's baser self. Frankenstein's epithets for him consistently connote evil: devil, fiend, daemon, horror, wretch, monster, monstrous image, vile insect, abhorred entity, detested form, hideous phantasm, odious companion, and demoniacal corpse. Neutral terms like creature and being are comparatively rare. Most important, there is Frankenstein's thinking of him as "my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me" (�7). And after each murder Frankenstein acknowledges his complicity: "I not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer"
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  • In grief and frenzy, Victor now vows his own revenge, and thus begins a cat-and-mouse game between the creator and his creation in which Victor pursues the creature and the creature enables his pursuit, leading Victor towards the North Pole.
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      Vivas T on 22 Feb 12
       
      This article poses the question of who was the real monster: Victor or his creation? This article points out the similarities of the two figures as well as their differences and illustrates their realtionship as doppelgangers. As a result, Victor and the monster, at some point, are each chasing the other, illustrating their eternal connection.
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