Frankenstein Prose Analysis

More Open-Ended Essay Prompts for which you can use Frankenstein as the literary work

Read and discuss the article “From Creator to Creature: Mirroring in Frankenstein”. select one argument of the author’s you strongly agree, on e you disagree and one you are not sure.

We’ll share in our groups.

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Read chapter 10 and compare and contrast this scene with the first time when Robert Walton sees the Creature . Pay particular attention to the weather, the appearance of the Creature and his effect on those who see him.

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Find at least 2-3 quotations from each chapter that respond to your thematic question using dialectical journal form. We’ll use them for class discussions.

AP Literature and Composition Timed Prose Essay

Prompt:

Read the following passage from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and, in a well-organized essay explain how the author uses literary devices such as diction, imagery, syntax and tone to create a pervasive atmosphere of horror in the passage.

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. But it was in vain; I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.

Critique of the activity:

  1. When responding to your peer’s quotation, avoid drawing conclusion immediately. You need to read into the quotation and examine its language before you speculate what the purpose might be. You can also bring out the literary device you have noticed within  the quotation.
  2.  Your claim needs to be specific to your quotation.
  3. The thesis needs to be the synthesis of the three claims based on the quotations.
  4. The thesis needs to include the literary devices you’ll use to analyze as well as the portrayal part before you introduce your thesis. It can be written in two sentences or a complex sentence.

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Frankenstein

You are responsible for the following words, allusions, and literary terms. You will be tested on this material in two separate tests.

FOR VOCAB TEST A

LIST A: You can find this word list on Dictionary.com:

benevolent                        calamity                               capacious                            caprice

carnage                                commiserate                      conflagration                     cursory

dilate                                     exhortation                        expedient                           fetter
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ignominy                             inclemency                         indefatigable                      indolence

languid                                 countenance                       immutable                         imperious

detrimental                        emaciated                           harrowing                           epithet

debilitated                          inexorable

 

Allusions & Terms: You are responsible to look up these terms yourself.

Prometheus                       elixir of life                          Philosopher’s Stone        galvanism

Gothic                                   epistolary                            frame narrative                 Cornelius Agrippa

Paracelsus                           Albertus Magnus

 

 

FOR VOCAB TEST B

LIST B: You can find this word list on Dictionary.com:

oblivion                                paroxysm                            perdition                              physiognomy

portend                                posterity                              precipitous                          progeny

purloin                                  repugnance                        retrospect                           salubrious

sanguinary                          sophism                               sustenance                         vacillate

odious                                   penury                                  timorous                              wanton

satiate                                  wretched                             rankling                                reveries

slaked                                   prognosticated

 

 

 

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