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This establishes the show’s use of flashbacks to give background and tell stories.
I hope you like flashbacks, because you’re going to have to get used to them!
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Apparently Jack has some medical background.
This isn’t a bad skill to have after a plane crash. That and leadership give us a clear protagonist.
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Jack establishes himself as a leader: He works well under pressure to help people.
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The wretch is apparently articulate and has some conception of morals or “duty”.
He believes (and partially convinces) Frankenstein that he has duties toward his creation.
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The mist may be evocative of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
And storms continue to accompany bad things…
Mary Shelley continues her use of pathetic fallacy, paralleling nature and human emotions/states.
As Frankenstein’s dark melancholy clouded every thought, mist appears and hides the mountains that Frankenstein used to adore and appreciate so he could improve his health.
But the mist prevents him from getting better.
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Victor has a moment of responsibility here.
Mary Shelley may have been influenced by her mother’s work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which Mary Wollstonecraft speaks about the influence that parents have over their children’s formation.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but mutability! Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 10)
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This is from Percy Shelley’s “Mutability”.
The poem deals with change in human existence, and it’s appropriately placed here because Victor’s life is certainly about to change…
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This wasn’t that uncommon among Romantic Era poets. William Wordsworth, for example, climbed Snowdon in Wales.
He relates his experiences at the peak in his poem, The Prelude (1850).
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After Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) gained popularity, there was a massive string of suicides committed in a similar fashion.
Frankenstein was influenced by this novel, as we learn in chapter 15.
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God loved Adam and gave him the Garden of Eden and treated him well.
But he cast out Satan, the fallen angel, and condemned him to burn in the lake of fire.
Language analysis as well as contextual analysis