Students were bullied into a very specific consideration of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. This was the first time that we have travelled towards the text for a while therefore the textual focus was very precise. The areas that the students were encouraged to consider were:
- The significance of The Orkneys. Students were asked to consider the metaphorical association attached to Victor's experience in these remote islands.
- The inability for Victor to discern the difference between dreams and reality after Clerval's murder.
- The marriage of Victor and Elizabeth and how and why this union is represented as being so joyless.
- Students were asked to consider the significance of Victor's language and the metaphorical association linked to images of slavery and death-in-life.
Students were asked to consider how this section of the novel represents Victor's experience as being a hell on earth.
The final section was a timed written response to the question:
How is meaning shaped by Shelley in Chapters 18 to 23?
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 18 to 23 and consider the areas discussed in today's session. Research the concept of the double and the doppelganger as we will be applying these concepts to Frankenstein next week. Also, read the introductory and concluding Chorus in Marlowe's Faustus.
Don't forget...the Anthology coursework deadline is the first lesson after the Easter holiday.
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