Genre / Generic Conventions
Define Gothic Literature.
What is A blend of fiction and horror with a little romance thrown in?
The author of Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Wollenscroft Shelley?
This text was written about a couple mourning the loss of their child, and the breakdown of their communication (title and author)
What is "Home Burial", Robert Frost?
Define how the theme of family, society, isolation appears in the novel.
What is The true evil in Frankenstein is not Victor or the monster, but isolation. When Victor becomes lost in his studies he removes himself from human society, and therefore loses sight of his responsibilities and the consequences of his actions. The monster turns vengeful not because it's evil, but because its isolation fills it with overwhelming hate and anger. And what is the monster's vengeance? To make Victor as isolated as it.
This type of revision focuses on big picture issues, analyzing the text as a whole
What is Global revision?
Define the genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future.
What is Science Fiction?
This is the sub-title of the novel, Frankenstein.
What is The Modern Prometheus?
This text was written about a lonely woman with a fox wrap (title and author) (hint: we are reading it next week, and I accidentally gave it to you yesterday)
What is "Miss Brill", Katherine Mansfield?
Define how the theme of Ambition and Fallibility appears in the novel.
What is Through Victor and Walton, Frankenstein portrays human beings as deeply ambitious, and yet also deeply flawed. Both Victor and Walton dream of transforming society and bringing glory to themselves through their scientific achievements. Yet their ambitions also make them fallible. Blinded by dreams of glory, they fail to consider the consequences of their actions.
These are the two types of criticism/feedback that you should give to a piece you are evaluating
What is Positive/Encouraging and Critical?
Define the genre of fiction that has a focus on the writer or narrator’s emotions and inner world.
What is Romanticism?
The era in which Frankenstein was written.
What are the 1800s (1818)?
This text was a scholarly article about genetic cloning (title and author)
What is "Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells" - Stein & Doucleff?
Define how the theme of Romanticism and Nature appears in the novel.
What is Crises and suffering result when, in Frankenstein, imperfect men disturb nature's perfection. Victor in his pride attempts to discover the "mysteries of creation," to "pioneer a new way" by penetrating the "citadel of nature." But just as a wave will take down even the strongest swimmer, nature prevails in the end and Victor is destroyed for his misguided attempt to manipulate its power.
This type of revision focuses on the level of the paragraph, syntax (order of information), and diction (word choice)
What is Regional revision?
Define the genre of fiction that has dark, abandoned, decaying settings and a romanticized past.
What is Gothic Literature?
The circumstances that caused Shelley to come up with the idea for Frankenstein.
What is a dark, stormy night at Lord Byron's house, where Mary & Percy Shelley, and Dr. Pollidori were staying - the doctor suggested writing ghost stories.
This text is about a man that descends into hell to retrieve the love of his life (title and author)
What is "Orpheus and Euridyce" by Ovid?
Define how the theme of Revenge appears in the novel.
What is Your opinion!
No spoilers :)
The type of questions you should ask a person whose work you are evaluating.
What are clarifying question?
This is a type of writing that is in the form of letters.
What is Epistolary?
“Prometheus” refers to
What is a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus,
who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have
shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life.
For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver,
until he was finally released by Hercules.
"But I seek one who came to you too soon.
The bud was plucked before the flower bloomed.
I tried to bear my loss. I could not bear it.
Love was too strong a god."
This line is from this supplemental reading.
What is "Orpheus and Euridyce" by Ovid?
Define how the theme of Lost Innocence appears in the novel.
What is Victor creates a monster that reflects back to him the many flaws inherent in his own species (an unquenchable thirst for love, a tendency toward violence, and a bloodthirsty need for justice and revenge) and in himself (prejudice based on appearance). And, in turn, Victor's cruel "un-innocent" behavior also destroys the monster's innocence.
Victor and the monster's losses of innocence ultimately lead to the deaths of many people.
This type of revision focuses on the level of the line, sentence, grammar, and punctuation.
What is Local revision?