Frankenstein Contents
- Social / political context
- Religious / philosophical context
- Literary context
- The Bible: Creation: see Religious / philosophical context
- The Prometheus myth
- The doppelganger
- The monster's reading: Plutarch, Milton and Goethe
- The Romantics: Coleridge, Lamb, Southey, de Quincey
- Introduction
- Title page to the first edition
- Preface
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- Volume 3
More on the creature's experiences
More on the creature's experiences:
His experience of the world in many ways reflects that of a newly-born child
- he talks a great deal about his senses – sight, feeling, hearing and smell;
- he gradually understands the separate existence of objects and learns to distinguish between them;
His experience can also be compared to that of Adam in the Garden of Eden
- he responds to the light of the moon and the warmth of the sun and finds that food and drink are supplied; he even finds a cloak in the forest;
- he takes pleasure in the sights and sounds of the forest, such as bird-song and the shade of the trees; again, like Adam, he exists in a state of simplicity and innocence.
His life becomes a speeded-up version of human history
- he discovers and learns to control fire;
- he begins to long for human company;
- as he observes the de Laceys he begins to find out about family life;
- BUT he is forced to understand how frightened people are when they see him
- tempted by food, he enters a cottage, but is chased out of the village
NOTE that at this stage he can only observe the de Laceys: he cannot yet speak or read.
According to Genesis (the first book of the Old Testament), Adam is the first human being, made in the image / likeness of God, placed in the Garden of Eden and given dominion over the earth.
The place described in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, in which God placed his first human creatures, Adam and Eve.
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