And so it begins... Frankenstein is afoot. Period one: read letter one (pages 11-14).
Periods 2 & 4: All letters.... (11 - 28)
Also, pre-draft draft of the argument writing due tomorrow (Wednesday).
Vocabulary List 9 is due on Friday! The sentences for list for 9 are due on Thursday
A few things to remember about Frankenstein. First, the name Frankenstein refers to the monster's creator, not to the monster himself! Second, in the author's introduction, Mary Shelley explains how this story came to be: she speaks in terms of "birthing" this horror story, using such imagery as "dilating" (3), and such terminology as "progeny" and "offspring" when referring to her story.
Shelley's impulse to listen to the current scientific research on galvanization of dead organic material , as well as theological, ethical and philosophical considerations led her to write this horror story for an audience of three others, including her husband, Percy Bysse Shelley and her husband's literary mentor, Lord Byron. This fact is important to know because in the same way that the story is her "baby", the monster is Victor Frankenstein's baby; thus, there's a parallel there between artist and the art, between scientist and experiment, between who's allowed to live, and who's not!
Most everyone has experienced the grief of losing something/someone you really love, and the impulse to want to keep life going forever (immortality) is at the heart of Frankenstein. Thus, the idea that something could come back from the dead shocked Shelley's immediate audience and provided lots of ethical thinking for those who read through Shelley's book. Shelley's story, then, gets at the root of our psychology in the same way that, say, The Walking Dead speaks to a modern audience.
While you read this novel, be on the look out for insight and interpretation. What are the links/connections between the novel and real-world scientific/theo-ethical situations that are current today?
Last thing: this is hard work. Don't forgo the pleasure of working through this only to get to the end and have nothing to show for it! In other words, use sparknotes as a tool, but NOT AS A REPLACEMENT!
Periods 2 & 4: All letters.... (11 - 28)
Also, pre-draft draft of the argument writing due tomorrow (Wednesday).
Vocabulary List 9 is due on Friday! The sentences for list for 9 are due on Thursday
A few things to remember about Frankenstein. First, the name Frankenstein refers to the monster's creator, not to the monster himself! Second, in the author's introduction, Mary Shelley explains how this story came to be: she speaks in terms of "birthing" this horror story, using such imagery as "dilating" (3), and such terminology as "progeny" and "offspring" when referring to her story.
Shelley's impulse to listen to the current scientific research on galvanization of dead organic material , as well as theological, ethical and philosophical considerations led her to write this horror story for an audience of three others, including her husband, Percy Bysse Shelley and her husband's literary mentor, Lord Byron. This fact is important to know because in the same way that the story is her "baby", the monster is Victor Frankenstein's baby; thus, there's a parallel there between artist and the art, between scientist and experiment, between who's allowed to live, and who's not!
Most everyone has experienced the grief of losing something/someone you really love, and the impulse to want to keep life going forever (immortality) is at the heart of Frankenstein. Thus, the idea that something could come back from the dead shocked Shelley's immediate audience and provided lots of ethical thinking for those who read through Shelley's book. Shelley's story, then, gets at the root of our psychology in the same way that, say, The Walking Dead speaks to a modern audience.
While you read this novel, be on the look out for insight and interpretation. What are the links/connections between the novel and real-world scientific/theo-ethical situations that are current today?
Last thing: this is hard work. Don't forgo the pleasure of working through this only to get to the end and have nothing to show for it! In other words, use sparknotes as a tool, but NOT AS A REPLACEMENT!