FRANKENSTEIN

UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3.19.12
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 * [|Origins of term gothic] ||
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1. Author's Introduction, Letters 1-4

2. Chapters I through VIII

3. Chapters IX through XVI

4. Chapters XVII through XX!

5. Chapters XXII through XXIV

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/gothic.html ||

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ONE MINUTE FRANKENSTEIN: Walton: Dear Margaret: My ship picked up this guy. He RULES. Frankenstein: I discovered the secret of life, and everyone died. (dies) Frankenstein's Monster: Inexplicably, I have become suicidal. (jumps out a window) THE END Frank theme: the Limits of Technology Frank vocab http://healigan1112.wikispaces.com/Frankenstein+reading+practice Frank plot
 * Frank & characterization: WORDLE!

||  ||  ||   || DOPPELGANGER: Here's Northrop Frye et al's definition of this term in The Harper Handbook to Literature: An alter ego; a second passional self haunting one's rational psyche; from German, "double-goer." Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) had already seen a perpetual contention between humankind's evil heart and rational head [Note: Kant is also one of the important figures in defining the [|sublime].] and romances had for centuries paired good and evil identities.... Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866) Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" (1912) Conrad's Heart of Darkness Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
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What others can you identify?