PL ANNIN G/PRIOR IT IES /T IME MAN AGEMEN T

Final response: don’t email me. Physically see me at school.

Never email your teacher/professor late at night asking THEM to find a quote for you. This is not a good look.

Never arrive late to an assessment/not turn up without contacting the teacher/professor.

I now have the power to simply say no to a re-write.

What is your top priority this year?

THEMEan idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or

literature.

“Love and honor are the pivotal themes in Ralph’s novel, KD Dreams”

DAN GERO U S KN OW LEDGE & AMBIT ION

Knowledge leads to advances in technology, but is that a good thing?

Frankenstein is in one sense the literary manifestation of an entire population’s fear of scientific advancement. It serves both as a reflection of present times and a warning for the future.

ALIENATION/ISOLATION

Alienation: Isolation from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.Isolation: A lack of contact between persons, groups, or whole societies.

I alienated myself from my family, friends and professors

in my ‘workshop of filthy creation’. The workshop was kinda like a solitary chamber , or cell, at the top of the house. My ‘great project’ swallowed

me up until it was completed. The isolation made me a total wreck, I was always anxious

and nervous… Quotes from pages 39-41

Theme Victor Frankenstein

Robert Walton

The Creature

Mary Shelley

Alienation &Isolation

CAN YOU THINK OF ONE EXAMPLE FOR EACH PERSON?

PREJUDICE

Prejudice: Preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience.

Frankenstein explores one of mankind’s most persistent and destructive flaws: prejudice. Nearly every human character in the novel assumes that the monster must be dangerous based on its outward appearance, when in truth the monster is (originally) warm and open-hearted.

Your unearthly ugliness is almost too

horrible for human eyes! Begone vile insect! Wretched

devil!

I expected this

reception. All men hate the

wretched.

Prejudice…

Quotes: page 80/81

You’re like a son to me!

You’re beautiful! I

am so proud!

THANKSDAD!

Prejudice…flip side…

BEAUTY

Lizzie Velásquez –

“World’s Most Ugly Woman” ???

MONSTROSITY

Monster: A creature having a strange or frightening appearance, or; One who inspires horror or disgust

A creature with a strange/frightening appearance

A person who inspires horror/disgust

DO YOU HAVE SYMPATHY FOR EITHER?

WHO IS THE MONSTER?

W H Y I S F R I E N D S H I P S O I M P O R TA N T I N T H E N O V E L ?

FRIENDSHIP

FRIENDSHIP

Most intimate and intense relationships in the novel occur not between husbands and wives, but between friends

In fact, throughout most of the novel, all the men are either widowers or bachelors, and show little interest in pursuing romance. Friendship, however, is valued highly by all the major characters.

Throughout Frankenstein, friendship is portrayed as an absolute need, and it is through friendships that Victor, Elizabeth, and Walton are saved from all kinds of troubles.

Walton actually describes his initial lack of friendship as "a most severe evil”, echoing the creature's claim that a lack of friendship isn't just undesirable, but actually causes evil.

When solitude and alienation become evil, friends become saviors, and friendship becomes salvation.

Henry Clerval

Robert Walton

Victor’s friends…

Elizabeth

Though he tries, the Creature never develops any friendships.

On Monday, 28th October:

Discuss 1-2 themes in Frankenstein.

MORE THEMES:

Death

Birth

Education

Family

Justice

Beauty

Sexuality

Etc!!! Click the link below for many other cool themes!!! http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Themes/

HOW TO GET STARTED:

___ and ____ are pivotal themes in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein.

A recurring theme in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, is…

A pervasive theme in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, is ______.