Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

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1 Frankenstein By Mary Sh elley

2 Anticipation Guide 0 Everyone has a hidden monster inside of them. 0 Isolating ourselves will magnify our problems rather than resolve them. 0 Parents/Guardians have a never- ending responsibility for their children. 0 Fame and glory are worth seeking. 0 Science is better than Nature. 0 Some secrets are worth hiding. 0 What we choose to do will have an effect on others. - Thomas Reyes- Cairo, 2008

3 Frankenstein: What s in a name? 0 What are some ideas that come to mind when you hear the name Frankenstein?

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8 Meet Mary Shelley 0 Born in 1797 to William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft 0 Her mother died 10 days after Mary was born 0 Shelley learned about her mother only through writings her mother left behind, including A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) which advocated that women should have the same educational opportunities as rights in society as men.

9 Meet Mary Shelley 0 Avid reader and scholar and knew through her father some of the most important men of the time (William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 0 Married Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816; he had been married to another woman

10 Meet Mary Shelley 0 Wrote Frankenstein when she was 18 years old 0 Percy Shelley died in Three of the the Shelleys children died in infancy 0 She supported her family as a writer 0 She died in 1851

11 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

12 Ideas of the Enlightenment 0 ScientiZic observation of the outer world 0 Logic and reason; science and technology 0 Believed in following standards and traditions 0 Appreciated elegance and rezinement 0 Interested in maintaining the aristocracy 0 Sought to follow and validate authority 0 Favored a social hierarchy 0 Nature should be controlled by humans

13 Important Revolutions 0 American and French Revolution (call for individual freedom and an overthrow of rigid social hierarchy) 0 Industrial Revolution social system challenged by change from agricultural society to industrial one with a large, impoverished and restless working class

14 John Locke 0 Believed in tabula rasa 0 At birth, humans are a blank slate 0 Their identities are shaped by their sensory experiences 0 The mind can process experience, but there is no innate knowledge

15 John Locke

16 Jean Jacques Rousseau 'Man was born free, and he is 0 everywhere in chains'. 0 Believed that man is inherently good 0 Man is corrupted by society

17 Jean Jacques Rousseau

18 The Roman tic Age

19 Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, 1818

20 Characteristics of Romantic Period 0 Emphasis on imagination and emotion, individual passion and inspiration 0 Rejection of formal, upper class works and a preference for writing (poetry) that addresses personal experiences and emotions in simple language 0 A turn to the past or an inner dream world that is thought to be more picturesque and magical than the current world (industrial age)

21 Characteristics of Romantic Period 0 Belief in individual liberty; rebellious attitude against tyranny 0 Fascination with nature; perception of nature as transformative

22 Characteristics of Romantic Period 0 Concerned with common people 0 Favored democracy 0 Desired radical change 0 Nature should be untamed

23 Style: Gothic Novel 0 The story is set in bleak or remote places 0 The plot involves macabre or violent incidents 0 Characters are in psychological and/or physical torment 0 A supernatural or otherwordly element is often present 0 Sense of indeziniteness; nothing is exactly explained 0 Ghostly, eerie atmosphere

24 Vocabulary List 1: Letters Ardent (adj.) passionate 0 Countenance (n.) face; expression 0 Dauntless (adj.) fearless 0 Harrowing (adj.) extremely distressing 0 Irrevocably (adv.) in a way impossible to change 0 Perseverance (n.) steady persistence

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