Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as it Appears in the Novel

FrankensteinA study by Taylor Gorder

- Abraham Maslow wrote A Theory on Human Motivation

- Published in The Psychological Review

- 7 stages, debatably fewer

Introduction and Background

Basic NeedsBasic Needs

Satisfied through:

- Relative wealth

- Life at sea

Quotes:“By slow degrees he recovered, and ate a little soup, which

restored him wonderfully.”

Basic NeedsBasic Needs

Satisfied through:

- Excess wealth

Quotes:

“I am by birth a Genevese; and my

family is one of the most distinguished of

that republic.”

Basic NeedsBasic Needs

Satisfied through:

- Effort

- Hunts and thievery

Quotes:“I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees. I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the

live embers. I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.”

BasicBasicSafetySafety

Satisfied through:

- Adventure

- Expedition and crew

Quotes:“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise.”

(15)

“My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but i preferred glory...” (17)

Satisfied through:

- Wealth

- Taken by the Monster

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

“Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish

disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but

a violent death!”

Satisfied through:

- Physical prowess

- Cottage squatting

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

“I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish,

nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I

sat down and wept.”

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

Satisfied through:

- Victor’s arrival

- Intelligent conversation

Quotes:“I have hired a vessel and am

occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom i can

depend and are centainly possessed of dauntless courage.” (18)

“I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had

been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.”

Satisfied through:

- Elizabeth

- The Monster

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

“Every one loved Elizabeth. The passionate and almost reverential attachment with

which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.”

Satisfied through:

- Observations

- Mate

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

“They were dressed in excellent clothes; and, still

more, they enjoyed one another's company and speech, interchanging each day looks of affection and kindness”

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteem

Satisfied through:

- The crew

- Adventure

Quotes:

“My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but i preferred glory...” (17)

“If I fail you will see me again soon, or never.” (18)

Satisfied through:

- The Monster

- Companionship

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteem

“Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these

fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient?”

Satisfied through:

- Eloquence

- Hideous appearance

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteem

“This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.”

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Satisfied through:

- Victor

- Victor’s story

Quotes:“I shall satiate my ardent

curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never

visited.” (15-18)

Satisfied through:

- Creating the Monster

- Taken by the Monster

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind “they were turned, not

towards childish pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn

all things indiscriminately.”

Satisfied through:

- Becoming literate

- Watching the poor family

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

“This reading had puzzled me extremely at first; but, by degrees, I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked. I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for

speech which he understood, and I ardently longed to comprehend

these also...”

Satisfied through:

- View of nature

- Adventure

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Looks

“We may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in

beauty.” (15)

Satisfied through:

- Personal satisfaction

- Nature setting

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Looks“I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of

fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained

but a blasted stump.”

Satisfied through:

- Others and nature

- Dissatisfaction

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Looks“I had admired the perfect forms of my

cottagers--their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how was I terrified when I

viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence

and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable

deformity”

Satisfied through:

- Victor

- His expedition

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Looks

Self Actualization

“I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative,

partly from curiosity, and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate, if it were

in my power.”

Satisfied through:

- Sought revenge

- Death

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Looks

Self Actualization

“You may easily perceive, Captain Walton that I have

suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined, at one time, that the memory of these evils

should die with me”

Satisfied through:

- Sought companionship

- Revenge and ultimately death

Quotes:

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Looks

Self Actualization

“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.”

BasicBasicSafetySafety

CompanionshipCompanionship

EsteemEsteemMindMind

Looks

Self Actualization

Concluding Statements

- Psychological Anomalies -

- Motivation -

- Stress -

- Development -

- Socio-Economic Status -

- Personal Development -

-Societal representation -

Questions?

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