Surgeon Tools
Relating to Character and theme, Victor
Surgeon Tools are related to Victor's hubris and the fact that he let it get the best of him. Surgeon tools are usually used to preserve life however in Victor's case, he uses them for destruction. This will connect to character, as Victor's tools represent his inadequacy to plan for the future
Relating to character, Victor uses tools, especially the shovel to graverob, to "destroy" instead of creating. he is using tools which are `normally thought of to help heal, and he is using them to tear apart and c=put them back together to create a sort of monstrosity.
Mary Shelly
Lucas Klett
Frankenstein
1818
October 29, 2018
Lucas Klett
Public Domain
English
Speculative Fiction
Horror
Science Fiction
Surgeon Tools
Tools
Surgery
Hubris
Science
Biology
medicine
dissection
Life & Death
Geneva
Victor's Apartment
Surgery
Shovel used to graverob
Tools
Grave robbing
Laboratory
Graveyard
19th Centry Medicine
Slaughterhosue
Victor Frankenstein
Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his thirst for knowledge creates the theme for the novel.
Dialogue of Frankenstein is possible because of Victor's reflection upon what happened to him.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein has a vast thirst for knowledge, but does not have much in the way wisdom in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The novel ultimately questions the wisdom in Dr. Frankenstein's God-like ability to create life.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones
January 1, 1818
October 25, 2018
Melanie Gunn
Public Domain
Mary Shelley
Book, image file
English
Speculative Fiction
Science Fiction
Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein
science fiction
Creator
Scientist
God-like imposter? "Wanna-be God"
Frankenstein, science fiction, God, Adam, Frankenstein's monster
Arctic
Geneva
Student
Morally Ambiguous
Egotistical
Frankenstein: Letters from Robert Walton
Letters of Robert Walton to Margaret Walton Saville
The letters in this collection were written by lonely Captain of the ship, Robert Walton while exploring the Arctic in search of a new country. In these letters, Walton describes in detail a "strange incident", introducing the world to the story of Victor Frankenstein and the details behind the creation of Victor's monster. It is within these letters that the horrors of Frankenstein's creation become a cautionary tale for Walton and the explorers within each one of us. These letters serve as the only evidence and insight into the story of Frankenstein and as such hold a great value to the Museum of Literary Artifact. Walton's first letter was sent December 11th, 17-- and his last one reads September 12th, 17--
Mary Shelley
Nelofar Sultan
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
Penguin House, N.Y
December 11th, 17--
October 22, 2018
Nelofar Sultan
Public Domain
Literary Artifact from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
JPEG image, Letters
English
Speculative fiction
Letters, Mail, Explorer
Handwritten
Cautionary Tale
Glory
cotton-blend letter
Mail sent from the Arctic to England in the 18th Century
19th Century Story
Origins of Science Fiction
Arctic
Geneva
Photograph of Caroline (Beaufort) Frankenstein
This image is a symbol of the collapse of the Frankenstein household. The mother, Caroline in the Frankenstein household seems to be the only one holding everyone together, even after her death. When her image is used as false evidence in murder hopes for the family reuniting or staying safe are lost.
Small picture of Victor's mother that was on William's person when he was murdered. Was later used as a means of framing and blackmail to pin the murder on the servant by the creature.
From the text: "She told me that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother. This picture is gone, and was doubtless the temptation which urged the murderer to the deed."
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (AmazonClassics Edition) (p. 71). Amazon Classics. Kindle Edition.
Photo/small painting of Caroline was not described in detail, in the novel. Perhaps it could have been a picture in a very small frame.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones
May 12 18th century
Rachel Bruntz and Mary Shelley
The copyright for the novel Frankenstein is in the public domain.
For the image: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/1/14/Penny_Dreadful_1x03_007.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160801181437
Photograph
Science Fiction
Speculative Fiction
Portrait Miniature
Small Painting
Two dimensional
A two-dimensional image of Caroline Frankenstein from the novel Frankenstein.
Geneva
After death of William
Creature
Creature & Murder
Light
Visual
Frankenstein is a book by Marry Shelley published in 1818. It accounts a scientist that creates life from dead body parts, creating a creature that he becomes afraid of.
Tone - the use of light in Frankenstein gives the book a Gothic tone, by the use of fire. The lighting from fire gives the book an ominous feel.
Mood - in the book, several descriptions reflect a dark mood, with the use of little light.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein by Marry Shelley
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones.
January 1, 1818
October 22, 2018
Alec Kulm
Print
English
Speculative Fiction
Science Fiction
Horror
Gothic Literature
Fire
knowledge
warmth
survival
destruction
Geneva
Summer of 1818 - "Year with no summer"
Fire
Scene when creature burns down house
Day
Seasons
Frankenstein's Laboratory
Speculative Fiction
Science Fiction
An old science type open space with a gurney and some sheets, and some assorted vials and bottles. The laboratory can represent setting, as the place where Frankenstein is created (place).
The space where the transformation from death to life was initiated.
This setting sets the tone for the rest of the book, in terms of implications to science and humans vs. "the other", or technology.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Project Gutenburg
January 1, 1818
Kendra Cary
The Laboratory in which Dr. Frankenstein created the monster and where the monster tasked him to make him a companion
English
Speculative Fiction
Frankenstein's Laboratory
Apartment
Labritory
Science
Experiment
Originates in the manor where Frankenstein lives
Geneva
1818
19th Century
Science & Technology
Frankenstein: Guitar of M. De Lacey
Guitar of M. De Lacey; Looking at the Best in Humanity
1794 Fabricatore 6 string Early Romantic French Guitar. Honey colored wood, simple decoration around the edge of the guitar and the sound hole. Decorative black metal expanding from guitar’s bridge. Some mild scratching due to age.
This guitar was featured in the book “Frankenstein,” and belonged to the elderly, impoverished M. De Lacey to whom Frankenstein’s monster formed an attachment. De Lacey’s guitar playing was one of the few pleasures that the monster experienced in its life, just as De Lacey's kindness was the only positive interaction that the monster ever had with humanity.
M. De Lacey's guitar contributed to the mood of the Creature's narrative about his early developments and benevolent impulses.
Mary Shelley
Megan Lang
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus.
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
January 1, 1818
October 22, 2018
Megan Lang
Public Domain
Literary Artifact from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."
JPEG image, guitar
. De Lacey's guitar would have been created by hand in the mid to late-18th century, an instrument that signified wealth and education in that era.
Shelley uses the guitar to indicate M. De Lacey's genteel nature, despite his fall into poverty. This gentility is mirrored in the treatment the monster receives from De Lacey, as the blind man is the only one to treat the creature with any respect or concern. Listening to the guitar is a significant part of the creature's development of its better nature, and its attraction to the better parts of humanity.
English
Speculative Fiction
Gothic Literature
Horror
Science Fiction
Guitar,
Handmade
Instrument
18th century
De Lacey family
Wealth
Hope
Early Romantic Period France, 18th century guitar. Handmade instrument by guitar builder Fabricatore, it represented education and wealth for owners, and was one of the few signs of the De Lacey family's "noble" upbringing.
Described intermittently in chapters 11 -15 of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" in the creature's narrative.
Lightning and Electricity
Lightning and electricity as the life force that brought the monster in Frankenstein alive.
Lightning and electricity are the source of energy that allows for the creation of the monster in the novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus written by Mary Shelley. Without this natural resource provided by the earth, the creation of the monster would not have been possible. Also, without this action, the entire plot of the story would have been drastically different and the novel would have not become the significant influence on Science Fiction that it is.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones
January 1, 1818
October 22, 2018
Jayme Knauer
The novel is in public domain, however, specific versions of the Frankenstein monster are not, with corporations such as Universal Pictures having domain.
Mary Shelley
Novel, .jpeg file, electricity comes from the earth which is a natural resource, electricity related to Galvanism.
English
Speculative Fiction
Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, monster, science fiction, lab, Frankenstein’s creature, lightning, electricity, Galvanism
Galvanism, life after death, consequences of science and technology, Science Fiction, God, Satan, Fallen Angel, science lab
Book by Agrippa
Conflict around Agrippa's book in Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein's book written by Cornelius Agrippa. Due to the conflict from his father's dismissal of this book, Victor reads this book and other similar books with much more passion.
Cornelius Agrippa, Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones
January 1, 1818
October 22, 2018
Molly Elwood
Public Domain
Mary Shelley
book, image file
English
Speculative Fiction
Frankenstein
Agrippa
Cornelius Agrippa
Frankenstein, Agrippa, Chapter 2, alchemy, old sciences
Frankenstein's Creature
Frankenstein's Monster
1800s Gothic Literature
A creation of Dr. Frankenstein, who used body parts from old graves to bring this being to life.
Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
1818
Tori Martin
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Creature
English
Speculative fiction
Monster
fiend
daemon
creature
devil
odious companion
dreaded spectre
1818
Victor Frankenstein's Lab
Knowledgeable
Mental agility