Chapters 4 & 5 are due on Monday.
In your own words, what did Frankenstein want to accomplish and why?
Welcome to the first ever ESA Virtual Book Club!
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If you're reading this, you are either a Brit Lit Scholar, a Landy, or a friend of The Landys. Welcome! I'm so glad that you have chosen to participate in our group reading of Shelley's Frankenstein. For each of the assigned readings, you will see discussion questions to which you are encouraged to respond. Feel free to pose follow-up questions for the group, offer critical or philosophical commentary, or just write what you feel about the text.
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Kathleen Landy
If you're reading this, you are either a Brit Lit Scholar, a Landy, or a friend of The Landys. Welcome! I'm so glad that you have chosen to participate in our group reading of Shelley's Frankenstein. For each of the assigned readings, you will see discussion questions to which you are encouraged to respond. Feel free to pose follow-up questions for the group, offer critical or philosophical commentary, or just write what you feel about the text.
Thanks again for logging on. You rock!
Truly,
Kathleen Landy
5.17.2007
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Frankenguides & Supplemental Reading
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 1-3
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 4-5
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 6-9
- The Myth of Prometheus
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 10-14
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 15-18
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 19-21
- Frankenstein Reading Guide, Chapters 22-24
21 comments:
Frankenstein wanted to create a living breathing thinking creature of ginormous proportions in size, strength, speed, sight, learning abilities, just basically a whole giant human that is alive. Also he wanted to learn how to create life.
Frankenstein created a human and the reason why he wanted to do create a human was to see if he actually can, which he did.
Frankenstein wanted to create a human. He did so because he wanted to see if he could accomplish such a task.
Frankenstein wants to raise the dead. He want to make a way for people who are already dead to live again.
He wanted see if he had the power to create something out of nothing.
Frankenstein wanted to accomplish a living creature from all dead parts. He wanted to prove to others that he is capable of creating a person and that he is using his knowlegde to do this.
Frankenstein want to bring life to things that have no life in them.
Frankenstein wanted to give life to non living matter because he wanted to surpass the accomplishments of past scientists. So he began working on creating a human like himself. A human with a height of 6'3, and with strong body features.
Frankenstein wanted to acomplish the big task of giving life to a dead creature. He wanted to create a living human from nonliving matter, so he can be the first one to give life to the unliving.
Frankenstein wanted to experiment with the dead. He wanted to bring life to something dead, and he wanted it to be big, and have all of the qualities that a human has. He wanted to do that because he was fascinated with life and he wanted to see if his abilities were able to do such tasks..
Frankemstein wanted to take something that was noliving and bring it to life.
Frankenstein wanted to create a human. Something that could walk, breathe, move, have all the qualities of a human. The reason for doing this is because he wanted to create and give life to something and to see if he could do it.
Frankentein wanted to see whether he could create a living thing out of nothing. He did this because he was so interested in life and death and wanted to see if he could bring life from something dead.
Frankenstein wanted to created a living human. He did this because he just wanted to see if he really could do it.
Frankenstein wanted to create life with parts of dead human beings and he wanted to do so to show that he could also create life from the dead.
Frankenstein wanted to prove to others that the author's books he used to study were not nonsense. He wanted to prove to his father and professer that learning about the natural world, such as the mysteries of heaven and hell could be productive. Therefore, he intentionally created the monster to show that he had power, and that he did learn something from his studies.
Frankenstein wanted to accomplish the goal of creating a human. His goal was to see if he could accomplish his goal. He basically wanted to prove that he was learning from the natural world. He was proving a point of power.
I think Frankenstein is trying to find the secret of life and he thinks by creating his own human being he will discover the secret to life. He is trying to accomplish the creation of a perfect human being.
frankenstein wanted to see whether or not he could bring someone from the dead back a live.
Regine
Frankenstein ( Pikachu) wanted to create a human like person to see if it was possible , which it was .He wanted to do it was because he wanted to see if he was capable of doing it.
Frankenstein wanted to see if he had the intelligence to create a human being to be the same as a real person. In order for that to happen they need the same sense and feelings as a human. Can he do it? Yes it took him nearly two years, but he accomplished what he was trying to do.
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