oWhen Creation was chased away by family for his appearance
oEach of the monster’s murders
oMonster’s speech about his motives at the very end of the book
Witness 2: Doctor Frankenstein
Events
oTime spent in Ingolstadt when he was inspired to make his creation
oMoment when creation was brought to life
oMountain talk with Victor and Creation
oFrankenstein’s response to William’s death at the monster’s hands
Possible: When the creation looms over Frankenstein's bed AND Confrontation before Victor's wedding day.
Witness 3: Psychologist (i.e. expert)
The effects of social isolation on the mind and behaviors
oMoment when Creation was brought to life
oWhen Creation was chased away by family for his appearance
oMonster’s Speech about his motives at the very end of the book
PROSECUTION
Questions for Frankenstein’s Creature:
Events
oMoment when Creation was brought to life
oWhen Creation was chased away by family for his appearance
oMonster’s speech about his motives at the very end of the book
How would you describe your own appearance?
How do you believe that you appear to others?
When you encounter people, what is their reaction?
Do you believe people fear you?
Are these reactions based on something you do, or on your appearance?
Is it true that you tried to reach out to other humans in a non-violent way?
Can you give an example of this? What happened when you tried to reach out? (Can be found p.113)
How did this make you feel?
Do you feel that Doctor Frankenstein is to blame for your appearance?
Did Frankenstein help you to figure out how to find your place in society?
How did your creator react when he first saw you?
How did this make you feel?
Did this anger make you hurt those that turned you away?
Would you say that the way that Frankenstein treated you caused your anger?
Questions for Scientist:
Events
oVictor’s process in creating the Creature
oMoment when Creation was brought to life
[References codes 3, 4, 5 and 7 of Nuremberg Code]
You are here to discuss the Nuremburg Code, is that correct?
What exactly is the Nuremberg Code?
Can you summarize codes 3 and 4 for the court?
Do you believe that Frankenstein violated these codes in his experiment?
How so?
Can you give me a summary of codes 5 and 7?
Do you believe that Frankenstein violated these codes in his experiment?
How so?
Questions for Psychologist:
Events
oMoment when Creation was brought to life
oWhen Creation was chased away by family for his appearance
oMonster’s Speech about his motives at the very end of the book
[References “Loneliness and Associated Violent Antisocial Behavior…”]
What do you specialize in/study?
What are the short-term and long-term effects of loneliness on a growing individual?
Given that the creature had an appearance unlike any other that kept him separate from human society, would you say that the creature experienced enough social isolation and alienation to display such effects?
The first things that the Creation experiences are rejection, loneliness and abandonment. How could these experiences have affected him?
What factors can lead an individual to murder?
Quotes: (Will be shortened down for trial)
1. “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life lay around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! – Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.”
2. “I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view. I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.”
3. “As a child, I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth, and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time, and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchymists.”
4. “Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of human kind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert yet alive, and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction. But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction that I might not cause greater wretched; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel. Blasted as thou were, my agony was still superior to thine; for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until shall close them for ever.
“But soon I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell”
5. “My journey was very melancholy. At first I wished to hurry on, for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends; but when I drew near my native town, I slackened my progress. I could hardly sustain the multitude of feelings that crowded into my mind. I passed through scenes familiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for nearly six years. How altered every thing might be during that time! One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive. Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. I remained two days at Laussane, in this painful state of mind. I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountain, ‘the palaces of nature,’ were not changed. By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me, and I continued my journey towards Geneva.”
6. “ ‘Devil,’ I exclaimed, ‘do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone live insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered.!’
‘I expected this reception,’ said the demon. ‘All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.’
‘Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are to mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation; come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.’ “
“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”(Chpt. 3)
“All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.” –Chpt. 7
Witness 1: The Creation
Witness 2: Doctor Frankenstein
- Events
- o Time spent in Ingolstadt when he was inspired to make his creation
- o Moment when creation was brought to life
- o Mountain talk with Victor and Creation
- o Frankenstein’s response to William’s death at the monster’s hands
Possible: When the creation looms over Frankenstein's bed AND Confrontation before Victor's wedding day.Witness 3: Psychologist (i.e. expert)
PROSECUTION
Questions for Frankenstein’s Creature:
How would you describe your own appearance?
How do you believe that you appear to others?
When you encounter people, what is their reaction?
Do you believe people fear you?
Are these reactions based on something you do, or on your appearance?
Is it true that you tried to reach out to other humans in a non-violent way?
Can you give an example of this? What happened when you tried to reach out?
(Can be found p.113)
How did this make you feel?
Do you feel that Doctor Frankenstein is to blame for your appearance?
Did Frankenstein help you to figure out how to find your place in society?
How did your creator react when he first saw you?
How did this make you feel?
Did this anger make you hurt those that turned you away?
Would you say that the way that Frankenstein treated you caused your anger?
Questions for Scientist:
- Events
- o Victor’s process in creating the Creature
- o Moment when Creation was brought to life
[References codes 3, 4, 5 and 7 of Nuremberg Code]You are here to discuss the Nuremburg Code, is that correct?
What exactly is the Nuremberg Code?
Can you summarize codes 3 and 4 for the court?
Do you believe that Frankenstein violated these codes in his experiment?
How so?
Can you give me a summary of codes 5 and 7?
Do you believe that Frankenstein violated these codes in his experiment?
How so?
Questions for Psychologist:
- Events
- o Moment when Creation was brought to life
- o When Creation was chased away by family for his appearance
- o Monster’s Speech about his motives at the very end of the book
[References “Loneliness and Associated Violent Antisocial Behavior…”]What do you specialize in/study?
What are the short-term and long-term effects of loneliness on a growing individual?
Given that the creature had an appearance unlike any other that kept him separate from human society, would you say that the creature experienced enough social isolation and alienation to display such effects?
The first things that the Creation experiences are rejection, loneliness and abandonment. How could these experiences have affected him?
What factors can lead an individual to murder?
Quotes:
(Will be shortened down for trial)
1. “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life lay around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! – Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.”
2. “I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view. I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.”
3. “As a child, I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth, and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time, and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchymists.”
4. “Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of human kind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert yet alive, and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction. But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction that I might not cause greater wretched; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel. Blasted as thou were, my agony was still superior to thine; for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until shall close them for ever.
“But soon I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell”
5. “My journey was very melancholy. At first I wished to hurry on, for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends; but when I drew near my native town, I slackened my progress. I could hardly sustain the multitude of feelings that crowded into my mind. I passed through scenes familiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for nearly six years. How altered every thing might be during that time! One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive. Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. I remained two days at Laussane, in this painful state of mind. I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountain, ‘the palaces of nature,’ were not changed. By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me, and I continued my journey towards Geneva.”
6. “ ‘Devil,’ I exclaimed, ‘do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone live insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered.!’
‘I expected this reception,’ said the demon. ‘All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.’
‘Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are to mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation; come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.’ “
“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”(Chpt. 3)
“All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.” –Chpt. 7