5 Global Issues in "Frankenstein"

​5 Global Issues in "Frankenstein"

• ​Intolerance

• Injustice

• Inhumanity

• Inequality

• Isolation​

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​Intolerance

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• ​Intolerance is an unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own.

• Victor attempts to create a "thing of beauty" and becomes unable to tolerate its existence once it has been brout to light

• Characters become intolerant to the physical appearance of Victor's creation.

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​Injustice

• Unfairness, cruelty, and outrage

• Justine is a character who is treated unjustly when she is on trial for murder

• Justine's name contains irony

  • Justine (justice)​

• Victor demonsrates injustice toward his own creation by discarding him and not properly caring for him​

​Isolation

• ​Isolation is separation, segregation, or quarantine

• Mary Shelley also wrote a novel called "The Last Man’ which predicted the political causes of and collective solutions for global plague.​

• Victor Frankenstein isolates himself from his loved ones before and after his creation

• The creation (monster) also isolates from society after he been rejected.

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​Inhumanity

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• ​The creature is treated inhumanely by the rest of society

• Victor also treats his "child" inhumanely by abandoning him

​Inequality

• ​Gender inequality is reflected in how the female characters are treated by their male counterparts

• Victor's creation feels unequal to the rest of society based on his grotesque appearance

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Open Ended

Which of the global issues that you learned about seems the most interesting? Why?

Multiple Choice

Unfairness, cruelty, and outrage

• inhumanity

• injustice

• intolerance

• isolation

Multiple Choice

unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own.

• isolation

• Intolernace

• Injustice

• inhumanity

Multiple Choice

Separation, segregation, or quarantine

• isolation

• isomorphism

• inhumanity

• injustice