Writer Techniques (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards

Story told through Walton's letters containing Victor's story & Monster's account

Storytelling through letters and documents

Encourages empathy & highlights subjective nature of truth

Sublime nature, dark atmosphere, supernatural horror

Creates tension & reflects Victor's troubled internal state

Gives philosophical weight to moral struggles

Scientific knowledge but also destruction (Prometheus myth)

Comfort & innocence vs Victor's unnatural creation

Ugliness of unnatural creation & society's rejection

Monster struggles with identity as both Adam & Satan figure

Victor as 'modern Prometheus' - warning about human overreach

Both ambitious scientists, but Walton learns from Victor's failure

Both isolated & longing; highlights nature vs nurture debate

Nature as refuge, restores peace when overwhelmed by guilt

Isolation, danger, emotional emptiness, far from human warmth