Explore how the narrative voices of the powerful and oppressed are explored in The Tempest and Frankenstein (2000 words)

Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” and Shakespeare “The Tempest” both explore powerful characters and how weaker characters are oppressed, they do this though characterization, language and structure. Powerful character could be seen as physical or mental superiority it can be an object or it could be knowledge and used to control or oppress people who has been shown in these two stories.

In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein the powerful character would be Victor Frankenstein and he seeks power through knowledge then he losses it when he lost control of his mental state as well as this oppression is explored in Frankenstein through revenge as the monster tries to oppress victor by targeting his loved ones this was to get retribution for victor abandoning him. Mary Shelly uses reference to nature and the sublime to re

Metaphors of Power

 

Metaphors of Oppression

 

References to nature (the sublime and the Pathetic fallacy)