5V Frankenstein Week 5 Lesson 1+2

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Frankenstein

week 5 lesson 1-2

In class today and tomorrow

• TODAY: Look at chapters 15 - 20
• TODAY: From idea to infographic/essay
  
• TOMORROW: Look at chapter 21 - 25
• TOMORROW: Creating your thesis statement
  

CHAPTER 15

1. How does the creature obtain books and clothes?

2. Why is Paradise Lost the most impactful book for the creature?

3. What does the creature find in his pockets?

4. How does this make him feel? 

5. What does the monster decide to do with regards to 

the family?

6. How does this turn out? 

CHAPTER 16

1. Enraged by his rejection, what does the creature do? 

2. What does he do when he sees a girl falling into a stream, and what is the result?

3. What happens when the creature arrives in Geneva 

and runs into a young boy?

4. What has actually happened to Justine?

5. What does the creature demand from Victor?

CHAPTER 17

After a long discussion, what do Victor and the creature agree on? 

Passive women in Frankenstein

Elizabeth

Justine

Safie & Agatha

The girl in the stream

Justine, again

CHAPTER 18

1. Victor has promised the creature that we will create a girlfriend for him. What are his thoughts about this? 

2. What does Alphonse think is the reason Victor is so sad all of the time? 

3. What does he propose as a solution? 

4. What does Victor do next and with whom? 

5. How long will this take? 

CHAPTER 19

1. Victor and Henry arrive in London and afterwards, they travel to Scotland. What does Victor tell Henry to do? 

2. Where does Victor go next and why? 

3. While there, what does Victor do?  

CHAPTER 20

1. Victor is working on his creation when he starts to think about the consequences. What does he fear?

2. While Victor is considering these things, what happens? 

3. What is Victor’s reaction to this?

4. What is the threat made against him?

5. What does Victor receive? 

6. The following morning, where does Victor arrive and 

what is said to him?

From idea to infographic/essay

What has the novel already said about your topic?

What is the novel trying to say about your topic?

Visualise it

Turn it into a mindmap

In class today

• YESTERDAY: Look at chapters 15 - 20
• YESTERDAY: From idea to infographic/essay
  
• TODAY: Look at chapter 21 - 25
• TODAY: Creating your thesis statement
  

CHAPTER 21

1. What is Victor told about the murder?

2. Why is Victor brought to the body? 

3. Who is the victim and how did he die?

4. What then happens to Victor? 

5. At the end of the chapter, is Victor charged 

with the murder?

CHAPTER 22

1. When traveling back to Geneva, Victor receives a letter from Elizabeth. What does she worry about?

2. What is his answer to her question and why?

3. What does he resolve to do the day after the great event?

4. Where do the two of them go?

CHAPTER 23

1. Why does Victor send Elizabeth away? 

2. What does Victor hear? 

3. What has happened? 

4. What is Victor’s reaction to this?

5. Shortly afterwards, Victor experiences more grief. Why?

6. Why does Victor go to the magistrate?

7. At the end of the chapter, what does Victor decide to do?

CHAPTER 24

1. Where does Victor go and why? 

2. What does Robert Walton think of everything Victor has gone through? 

3. Does Robert still want to be Victor’s friend? 

4. What do Victor, Robert and the men on the ship decide to do?

5. What happens shortly after?

6. What will happen to the creature?

                                              I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, 

                                                  to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.

In Walton’s final letter to his sister, he recounts the words that the monster speaks to him over Victor’s dead body. This eruption of angry self-pity as the monster questions the injustice of how he has been treated compellingly captures his inner life, giving Walton and the reader a glimpse into the suffering that has motivated his crimes. This line also evokes the motif of abortion: the monster is an unwanted life, a creation abandoned and shunned by his creator.

Topics in Frankenstein

• Family, society and isolation
  
• Ambition and fallibility
• Romanticism and Nature
• Revenge
• Prejudice
• Lost Innocence

Creating a thesis sentence

A thesis statement is a sentence or group of sentences that present the main idea, or the focus, of an essay.

Creating a thesis statement

Step 1: Determine what kind of paper you are writing

An analytical paper breaks down an issue or an idea into its component parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this breakdown and evaluation to the audience.

An expository (explanatory) paper explains something to the audience.

An argumentative paper makes a claim about a topic and justifies this claim with specific evidence. The claim could be an opinion, a policy proposal, an evaluation, a cause-and-effect statement, or an interpretation. The goal of the argumentative paper is to convince the audience that the claim is true based on the evidence provided.

Creating a thesis statement

Step 2: Your thesis statement should be specific—it should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence.

Step 3: The thesis statement usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of a paper.

Step 4: Your topic may change as you write, so you may need to revise your thesis statement to reflect exactly what you have discussed in the paper.

Create your thesis statement