tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post51720837933489960..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Frankenstein Argues the True MurdererAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-48319173580332622882013-09-14T17:28:26.331-04:002013-09-14T17:28:26.331-04:00Your discussion of Frankenstein's developing u...Your discussion of Frankenstein's developing understanding of himself as murderer is basically sound. The interjection about God & war is odd and clumsy, but also interesting. There *is* war in Paradise Lost, and it's exceptionally strange (a war among immortals where nobody can get hurt is more comic than anything - very strange), so you have good instincts here.<br /><br />While the encounter with the magistrate isn't at all the only moment when Victor contradicts himself, it's a very good example. This is effective, and seems to open up a real analysis of Victor Frankenstein's contradictions. But instead of doing that you give us a strange and abbreviated ending about trial by combat, which ignores the various contradictions which do get encountered and unpacked at the end - this is an essay about Victor's contradictions which don't actually engage with the text at the very end of the novel. Up until this ending, it seemed like a good direction, but if you're going to make this essay work, you actually need to articulate a reading of the ending of the novel and whether it resolves Victor's contradictions in any direction or not.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com