![]() ![]() Shelley revises Miltonic precedent to promote the readers’ sense that, explicit claims about mediation and translation notwithstanding, we have heard the daemon’s story in his own words. A second comparison between the two comes when the creature in Frankenstein comes across a satchel of books, one of which is Paradise Lost. Comparing himself to both Adam and Satan, perceiving himself as both human and demonic, the monster is poised uncomfortably between two realms. In Frankenstein, Shelley subsequently adapts these poetic techniques, not to inspire faith in her prose fiction but instead to invite the reader to suspend disbelief. Paradise Lost, here and throughout the novel, provides a touchstone for the monster as he tries to understand his identity. ![]() Victors creature known as the monster shows striking similarities with Satan and Adam. Victor Frankenstein and God have many similarities, as they are both creators of incarnations. By promoting heightened skepticism about understanding based on visual perception, Milton’s poem deflects analogous skepticism about the truthfulness of verbal transmission across languages. The novel Lost Paradise, by John Milton, exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God within the characters God, Satan, Adam, and Eve. This essay argues that the fictive presence of translation in Frankenstein signals to the reader some specific strategies that Shelley had discerned in her study of Paradise Lost. The fates of Frankenstein, his monster and those surrounding them are epic on the scale of Paradise Lost and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and are. This speculation establishes the grounds for revisiting existing accounts of Shelley’s relationship to Miltonic precedent. Adam and Frankenstein’s monster were created, not born and they both disappointed their creators. Satan, resenting his lack of recognition in heaven, gathers a rebel army to overthrow God,whose only son banished the fallen angels to hell. This essay begins by speculating about the possibility that the daemon has read Anne-Marie du Bocage’s 1748 Le paradis terrestre, poéme imité de Milton. Our understanding of Frankenstein changes once we devote more attention to the daemon’s claim that he discovered all of his reading materials in French translation. ![]()
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