{"id":1681,"date":"2020-01-28T02:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2020-01-28T02:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:24:04","slug":"depression-in-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/depression-in-frankenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression in Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As my group was discussing Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein<\/em>, I was particularly interested in the time we devoted to acknowledging the possible presence of depression in Victor\u2019s life. We talked about how he was seeking a sense of companionship in pursuing his creation, but struggled to figure out why he felt like he needed a companion when he already had Elizabeth and his family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we had started questioning this, someone in our group brought up the possibility of Victor being depressed. This clicked with me in our discussion, leading me to suggest that if Victor were a depressed individual, he might have felt alone no matter how many friends or family he had. For many people with depression, irrational feelings of loneliness and isolation are a prominent part of their disorder. From this viewpoint, it would make sense that Victor sought a relationship with someone that he knew would forever be connected to him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This could all be a reach, but I think it was a very eye-opening part of our discussion and allowed us to look at Victor with sympathy, rather than with annoyance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As my group was discussing Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein, I was particularly interested in the time we devoted to acknowledging the possible presence of depression in Victor\u2019s life. We talked about how he was seeking a sense of companionship in pursuing his creation, but struggled to figure out why he felt like he needed a companion … Continue reading “Depression in Frankenstein”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,62],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-depression","tag-frankenstein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcJhts-r7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}