Literary Terms

2. Visit the following link for character notes on Frankensteinhttp://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/ Victor Frankenstein Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein Alphonse Frankenstein Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein Henry Clerval the Dæmon

3. Literary Terms • Frame story • Characterization • Foils • Tone • Imagery • Inference • Irony • diction • syntax • tone • allusion • flashback • foreshadowing • plot (exposition, conflict, resolution) • Gothic • Romanticism and Gothicism

4. Mary Shelley • Parents intellectual radicals • Father – William Godwin (politician / novelist) • Mother – Mary Wollstonecraft (feminist writer) • Mother died 10 days after giving birth to her! • Difficult childhood

5. Percy Shelley • Poet; already married (run-off together!) • Have child (dies 3 wks after it’s born) • Percy’s wife commits suicide (drowns) • Mary (16 yrs old!) elopes (wks after wife’s suicide) • Percy died 8 yrs after marriage (boating accident) • Mary had 4 children – 3 died as infants!

6. Published 1818 She was only 19 years old! How she did it: • Galvanism • Industrialization • Ghost story contest • Gothic Novel As we read, you must understand content, allusions, satire and genre

7. Epistolary Novel: • novel written as a series of documents (letters, journal entries, diary, newspaper clippings, etc…) • Purpose: • add realism and validity

8. Frame Story: • story within a tale • Young rich kid – spending his inheritance on an elaborate quest. • Mysterious scientist - rescued and shares ‘his story’

9. Setting Letters: The Arctic (desolate unknown) Chapters: Geneva (flashback)

10. Setting:The Arctic • When the novel opens, an explorer named Robert Walton is organizing an expedition through the Arctic, the area around and within the Arctic Circle and near the North Pole. The Arctic Ocean covers most of this region, and more than half of the ocean’s surface is frozen at all times. Travel by ship is extremely dangerous. Huge sheets of ice float through the frigid waters, threatening to crush the vessels that appear in their paths.

11. Did you Know? • In the letters, which set the stage for the novel, Robert Walton says he has been deeply affected by the narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leading poet of the Romantic era. • In the poem, an old sailor, or mariner, tells the story of a horrific sea voyage that changed his life. Sailing in stormy seas near the South Pole, the mariner’s ship is surrounded by ice. When the crewmen spot an albatross, a huge seagull-like bird, flying through the fog, the ice splits open, freeing the ship. Then, unexpectedly, the mariner shoots the albatross. After this act of cruelty, the ship is cursed. Driven north, it becomes stranded in a hot, windless sea. All of the crew except the mariner die. Ever since, the remorseful mariner has traveled the world to tell his story and to teach others to revere God’s creatures. • Walton’s comments about “The Ancient Mariner” are examples of allusion.

12. Context Walton – writes letters (first narrator) - receives large inheritance; use it for glory - meets a stranger! Stranger – narrates Chapters (for now  ) - chapters are a flashback (explain how he ended up on the ice!)

13. Characters

14. Frankenstein Themes • The roles of technology verses humanity • the search for self-identity • the role of parent-child relationships

16. Review the character list.

17. Suggestions: • Try to suspend belief and put yourself in each character’s place • What would you do in their place?(Like a choose your own adventure novel)

18. Read Letters 1-4, Chapters 1-5 • YOU WILL HAVE A READING CHECK QUIZ VIEW THE TRAILER: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109836/trailers-screenplay-E12576-310

19. Famous Quests (Allusions in the text) • Albatross - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner used to mean a wearisome burden (caused by impulse) • Albatross = regret for impulsiveness

20. Famous Quests (Allusions in the text) • The Philosopher’s Stone - capable of turning base metals into gold; elixir of life (Magnus; Paracelsus)

21. Famous Quests (Allusions in the text) • The Elixir of Life - legendary potion, or drink, that grants the drinker eternal life or eternal youth; said to be able to create life (Cornelius Agrippa)

22. Letters 1-4: Quote Analysis (This is a partner assignment) • Identify the Speaker • Analyze the quote and explain what the reader is able to infer For example… Do we learn about a character’s traits? Does it contain a literary device like an allusion that gives us insight into plot, theme or characterization? Does it suggest a conflict or resolution? Does it contain foreshadowing?

23. Letters 1-4 You and your partner must respond to two different quotes. 1.) “My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory…” 2.) “...but I shall kill not albatross.” 3.)“To seek one who fled from me.”

24. Letters 1-4 4.) “... do you share my madness...Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?” 5.)“I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew...” 6.)“I thank you ...for your sympathy, but it is useless; my fate is nearly fulfilled. I wait ...for one event...”

25. Reading Strategies • Know your goal • (READ ALL COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS FIRST) • Question as you read • summarize large paragraphs, record/define major characters, answer comp. questions you remember • Understand vocabulary • use context clues (what does the sentence or paragraph mean?) • Recognize / interpret allusions • What concept is connected to the allusion? How does it relate to the characters and/or plot?

26. Quick Write in School Town: Would you want to live forever? Why or why not?

27. Prometheus • Mold mankind out of clay • Creation in man’s hands (fire) • God of forethought

28. Prometheus An allusion • A reference in a written work to something from history, art, religion, myth, or another work of literature. • Writers use allusions to give readers additional insights about what is happening in the story and why

29. Prometheus • Allusion = What responsibility does a ‘creator’ have? • How much power should man possess?

30. Discuss the following answer with your partner. Post your responses in School Town. • What are some creation myths, legends, stories, etc… you have heard? • What responsibility does a ‘creator’ have to those they create? (list specifics and defend your answer) • If you had the power to create, what characteristics, powers and/or attributes would you give your creation. Why.

31. When you analyze a quote: 1. Identify the Speaker 2. Identify the Context (why it is important) It will reveal one or more of the following: • Characterization • Plot • Foreshadowing • Theme (typically through figurative devices)

32. Ch. I 1.) “I have a pretty present for Victor …” Ch. II 2.)“It was the secrets of heaven and earth I desired to learn.” 3.)“...Agrippa!...do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.”

33. Ch. III 4.) “My firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.” 5.) “If your wish is to become really a man of science...I should advise you to apply to every branch…”

34. Ch. IV 6.) “I paid no visit to Geneva…” 7.) “…forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses”

35. Ch. IV 8.) “Learn from me…how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world…” - Victor = Foil: danger of hubris; knowledge 9.) ”A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion …to disturb his tranquility.” - Victor = Irony: danger of hubris; knowledge

36. Post this in School Town’s Discussion • Make a list of the responsibilities a ‘creator’, ‘parent’, and/or ‘owner’ has to its ‘creation’.

37. Debate the following scenarios with your partner. Be prepared to share your views. • #1: A single father struggles to raise his three sons on his own. He has to work two jobs to afford rent, food and bills. His jobs often keep him away from home. Two of the three children eventually join a gang in their neighborhood. They spend their teenage years in and out of correctional facilities. Eventually, one of them is incarcerated for murder. Do you believe the father is to blame.?

38. Task: With your partners … #1 – Read Chapter 1( background of the Frankenstein family) While reading, mark the text: • Take notes of words, sentences, or paragraphs you admire • Write down text you find confusing or questionable. • Post a minimum of three responses in School Town. • Respond to a minimum of three of your classmates posting.

39. Debate the following scenarios with your partner. Be prepared to share your views. • #2: A boy is being bullied at school. When he confides in his father, the advice he receives is simply to stand-up for himself. Later that week, the boy is arrested for pulling a knife on his much larger and older bully at the bus stop. Doyou believe this criminal act is the boy’s fault?

40. Debate the following scenarios with your partner. Be prepared to share your views. • #3: A sixteen year old girl is arrested for throwing a party at her house. Her parents are also charged with negligence and reckless endangerment of minors. Do you believe the parents should be charged?

41. Debate the following scenarios with your partner. Be prepared to share your views. • #4: A pitbull jumps his backyard fence and bites a jogger. The jogger is severely injured and plans to sue the pitbull’s owners. Do you believe the jogger has a case?

42. Remember… • Shelley’s characterization of the monster is a metaphor for industry and technology. • The way the monster looks and acts must be analyzed to ‘get’ Shelley’s warning against technology and science. • As you investigate the monster’s appearance today, think about how it may be symbolic.

44. Group Response in School Town Frankenstein achieved his goal! What decisions does he now face? What does he do? Do you think he did the right thing?