The Snow Child

After reading the story for the first time I was left stumped, unaware of what to think about it. Generally the story seemed pointless and crude. However, after thinking more on the story and having a group discussion I feel that I understand my own interpretation of the story much better.
Personally I think that the girl perhaps represented everything that the wife didn’t want to be anymore or perhaps everything that the husband wanted his wife to be. It’s almost as though it could have been created to be a very brief summary of the Count and Countesses relationship. He wanted her to be something she wasn’t and in the end she wanted to change.
He desired the girl, therefore she was created. The Countess desired to kill the girl and that’s why the rose bush appeared.
The final line of the story, the wife saying ‘It bites!’ (Meaning the rose), could possibly mean ‘be careful what you wish for’. I think this because the Count and Countess both obtained what they desired but possibly at a cost.
At the end of it all, it’s as though the wife has become what she used to be, the girls death symbolizing the death of everything fake that she or her husband had wanted the Countess to become and now the husband can let go of his ‘farfetched’ desires and love his wife for what she really is, the stripped woman he felt sorry for previously in the book.

Frankenstein

Chapter 5: The Monster is created after two years of work. Victor flees from the Monster and has a nightmare about Elizabeth, she dies in the dream and turns into his mothers corpse. When he wakes the monster is at his bed side. Victor escapes the house leaving the Monster behind. He stumbles across Clerval the following day and takes him back to his house. The Monster has vanished. Frankenstein becaomes ill and has a mental break down; Henry Clerval takes care of him whilst he recovers.

Chapter 6: A letter arrives from Elizabeth. She informs him of his families concern and hopes he gets well soon. Victor gets better and things seem to be taking a good turn.

Chapter 7: Victor's younger brother William dies. He then returns home where Frankenstein discovers that it was the Monster that murdered him. He meets the monster on a dark stormy night for the first time since he had been brought to life.

Frankenstein Locations

Mont Blanc -

Both Frankenstein and the Monster meet in the snowy mountains of Mont Blanc, they both go there to initially be alone. I think that Shelley used this cold and desolate scenary because it reflects the way the characters are feeling; Victor feels guilty and alone after loosing so many family members and friends and the Monster feels alone because he is rejected by humanity simply because of his appearance. This shows that although Frankenstein and the Monster are clearly different in appearance, on the inside they are quite the same.


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Frankenstein notes

Science



Playing God - Religion



Loneliness



Tragedy



Love



Gothis horror



Ambition/ Obsession



Revenge



Alienation/ Supernatural







Mary Shelley married Percy Shelley- 3 miss carrages, fourth child survived - Husband drowned at sea - her mother died when she was eleven days old - she died of a brain tumour.







Litery referencess - paradise lost milton, goerthe, romantisicm , first science fiction novel (mary shelley), shelley's background, locations of novel, science at the time



geneva mont blanc







Both Frankenstein and the Monster meet in the snowy mountains of Mont Blanc, they both go there to initially be alone. I think that Shelley used this cold and desolate scenary because it reflects the way the characters are feeling; Victor feels guilty and alone after loosing so many family members and friends and the Monster feels alone because he is rejected by humanity simply because of his appearance. This shows that although Frankenstein and the Monster are clearly different in appearance, on the inside they are quite the same.

Macbeth act 5

V.I



Doctor and Gentle woman are speaking in a room about Lady Macbeth. The Gentle woman explains that Lady Macbeth has been walking and speaking in her sleep; on cue, she enters doing exactly what the Gentle woman said she had been. She walks around professing about Banqou's death, confessing to sins she shouldnt know 'she has spoke what she should not'.



Lady Macbeth continues to scrub 'blood' off her hands but she can't seem to get it off' 'Out damned spot: out I say'.







V.2



The scene opens with Mentieth, Caithness, Angus, Lennox and some soldiers. Although this act is short it has a strong significance, they curse Macbeth and basicaly say that they are going to war. It is the beginning of the end.





V.3





Macbeth is talking to a doctor and a friend named Seyton. I believe that this man is called Seyton as some kind of pun; ironic that Macbeth is plotting and confessing with a man whose name is incredibly close to Satan. Macbeth asks for his armour to be brought to him and proclaimes that he 'will not be afraid of death and bane'.



V.4

My thoughts on the witches

I think that the witches hold a very strong significance in Macbeth. I believe that if they had never encountered Macbeth the whole plot would never have taken place. For example, when they tell Macbeth he will become king he initially believes it will happen in time, there for deciding to kill King Duncan to shorten the wait and begin the story plot. However, I think that when the witches told him he would become king they meant because he would kill Duncan after them telling him his prophecy, he would not have become king otherwise.
Because of this, it is as though they were informed by a hierarchy to tell Macbeth in the first place, so that everything would fall in place. Someone more powerful than the witches and Hecat that saw it would all happen and that is why they ordered the witches, consciously or subconsciously to tell Macbeth his fortune on that dreary day.

This is possibly why Hecat is surprised when she finds out that the three witches have been working without her order, someone else could have already given them a task unbeknownst to Hecat.

Macbeth Act 3

Act three of Macbeth is were Banquo's death takes place.
The scene opens with Macbeth speaking to Banquo, Macbeth asks him to come to dinner but Banquo declines. Macbeth asks 'Ride you this afternoon?' to which Banquo replies 'Ay my good Lord.'
However, shortly after this scene Macbeth is seen conversing with to Murderers he has hired to kill Banquo. He says he can't kill Banquo himself because 'certain friends that are both his, and mine, whose loves I may not drop.' I think that this is just an excuse because Macbeth knows he can't personally kill Banquo because he is his friend.
Things do not go as planned because, although the murderers were told to kill both Banquo and his son Fleance, Fleance manages to escape hearing his fathers bloodied cries behind him 'O treachery! Fly good Fleance fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge. O slave!'

I think this will have strong significance later in the plot, it could possibly lead up to Macbeth's death.
I think that Banquo's words 'fly' have a very strong yet subtle meaning. For instance it could relate back to the old mans words in act two about an owl slaying the hawk. At the time, those words were meant to represent Macbeth, the owl, slaying the King, the mighty hawk. However this time I believe the meaning has slightly differed. Fleance is now the owl and Macbeth has become the Hawk.

The lead witch, Hecat, makes an appearance amongst the other witches. She moans at them for meddling with out consulting her first but other than that accepts what has happened and decides to let things fall in place.

Later there is a dinner scene with Macbeth and guests. Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo although no one else can see it. I believe this is because the guilt of knowing Banquo is dead because of him becomes to much. It is also the first time Macbeth shows his unwell state of mind in front of someone other than Lady Macbeth.