Frankenfinal!

Take-home essay test: Due Thursday. File using google.docs. Make sure the box that says "send an email notification" is checked. Share with pvilgrade@gmail.com

1) Choose a specific literary element (e.g., theme, characterization, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g., symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) that Mary Shelley employs in the final chapter of Frankenstein. Using specific details from the chapter, in a well-developed paragraph, show how Shelley uses that element or technique to develop the chapter.

2) Write a two paragraph critical response (introductory paragraph and one body paragraph that backs up your thesis) in which you discuss the novel Frankenstein from the particular perspective suggested in the Critical Lens. In you essay you must first explain the meaning of the quote, then say whether you agree or disagree with it, and then state how the quote applies to the novel. Finally you must back up your viewpoint using specific references to appropriate literary elements from the novel.

The critical lens: “The difficulty in life is the choice…”-George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, 1900

History of Science Fiction

You should click here to see an amazing graphic representation of the history of science fiction. (And why am I posting it? Because Gothic literature and Mary Shelley are part of it. By the way, you can enlarge the graphic by clicking.