ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Victor Page, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Penicillin
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The theme of adoption is a big one in frankenstein. Not just an adopted sibling, there is more to her character; we learn that she is somewhat of an arranged marriage alliance to victor. He wants to draw her into the family but it is a strangulating gesture to also write their futures. Drawing tight the bonds of domestic relationships is ironic to tying down -- the love is binding rather than nurturing; the most important if not the explicit theme of frankenstein, the implicit one. If the novel isn"t about technology and to manufacture life, it is about importantly the technologies we use to organize the relationships in our lives anyways, even if we aren"t able to scientifically engineer it. The extent to which you can make the pretense to engineer and own a relationship. If victor is affected by this tyranny of arranging and prearranging this relationship, as victor talks about affections for her.
