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Analysis Guide Adapted from Toms River Regional Schools
AP English Literature and Composition Ms. Laurin Werner
Directions 1. Complete ONE Analysis Guide PER text to the best of your ability (not to the best of SparkNotes’, Shmoops’, or anyone else’s ability). 2. You will need to conduct outside research to complete certain items such as historical era/cultural movement and socio-cultural and historical context. Cite your sources. 3. If you are unfamiliar with any terms on this guide, refer to the AP Lit. Terms document for help. 4. I highly recommend typing your answers directly into this form and then printing the form when finished. This will allow you to take up as much room as necessary without the limits of handwriting.
The Basics (6 points) Full Title of Work (properly punctuated): Mary Shelley Frankenstein Year of Publication:
1994
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama Historical Era / Cultural Movement: Victorian era, Age of Enlightenment(Rationalism), Romanticism(What should be done is thought by human feeling) Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
Birth-Death Dates / Places: Born: August 30, 1797, in London, England. Died: February 1, 1851, in London, England (Brain cancer)
Setting(s) (2 points) *Consider times and places as well as significant socio-cultural and historical context.
Primary:
STUDENT NAME:
TOTAL:
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Secondary: Other:
Characters (5 points) Protagonists: Victor Frankenstein Antagonists:
The creature
Primary Foils [to whom?]:
Creature and Victor
Primary Love Interests & Sidekicks: Henry Clerval Minor Characters: The cottagers, Victor’s mother and father, Justine.
Central Conflicts (3 points) *Consider both sides in each conflict.
Primary External: Problems with the creature Primary Internal: The crimes that the creature has made might not be happened if it was not created. Secondary: Wants of reviving the deaths, Worries caused by missing the loved ones
Key Plot Points (5 points) Exposition: Happened in Geneva, Switzerland. Have a happy family. Living in a calm and aesthetic place. Rising Action: Seek knowledge, travel to other places, apart from family Climax: The creature is created, and the protagonist knows that he is mistaken. Falling Action: Crimes are made by the creature to show its disappointments Resolution: Bad things happened, the protagonist seeks happiness, the creature lives with its wounds.
Narrative Style (3 points) *Consider point of view, distinctive literary style / literary devices used, and narrator’s name / character traits.
First person narration Themes (2 points) *Reminder: themes are usually 3-5-word phrases, not full sentences or 1-word answers.
Primary: to be different
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Secondary: to proceed without considering the consequences
Symbols, Metaphors, and Allegories (3 points) Allegories: Before doing something, a person must consider the effects coming after. Symbols: The creature can represent the effects of prejudice. Metaphors: “Her voice was musical” described by the creature when it heard the voice of the stranger who came to the cottagers. Mythological, Biblical, Literary, Historical, Scientific, and Cultural Allusions : Scientific Allusion – Experiments of Galvanism which could bring back life from charging electricity to death bodies. Other Significant Literary Devices / Notable Aspects (3 points) Simile- “She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away, like a nightingale of the woods.”
Significant Quotes (10 points) *Include at least 5 that span the beginning, middle, and end of the text. Focus your choice of quotes on characterization. This will help you when writing your first essay!
Who?
Victor Frankenstein
Alphonse Frankenstein
Said What? (exact words and punctuation in “ ”) “You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be the serpent to sting you, as mine has been” “William is dead! – that sweet child, whose smile delighted and warmed my heart, who was
To Whom?
Why?
Page # or Line #
Captain Walton
Victor has made an unforgettable mistake from his will to bring back life
Page 13 Line 7-10
Victor Frankenstein
William, Victor’s younger brother, was murdered while Victor was on his way
Page 46 Line 18-19
STUDENT NAME:
Victor Frankenstein
The creature
The creature
The creature
TOTAL:
so gentle, yet so gay! Victor, he is murdered!” “You are all Ernest mistaken; I know the murderer. Justine, poor, good Justine, is innocent” “I thought (foolish wretch) that it might be in my power to restore happiness to these deserving people.” “They are kind – they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me. I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold a detestable monster” “You must create a female for me, with whom I can
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back to Geneva. Victor knows that Justine would not kill her own brother, he saw the creature that might be the murderer. The creature has good wills to help others and bring happiness.
Page 53 Line1-2
De Lacey, the blinded old man
The creature wanted to be accepted but was meanly judged by its appearance which unlike human.
Page 95 Line 36-40
Victor Frankenstein
The creature feels isolated that it has to live alone in
Page 104 Line 8-11
Victor Frankenstein
The end of page 80 and the beginning of page 81
4
STUDENT NAME:
The creature
Victor Frankenstein
The creature
TOTAL:
live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuge to concede” “‘Shall each man,’ cried he, ‘find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate; but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.” “You refuge my just demand : I have but one resource; and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction” “I shall die,
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the world that doesn’t see what he really is.
Victor Frankenstein
The creature is angry because Victor refuges to give him a companion to live with and destroys his own experiment in front of the creature.
Page 122 Line 37-40
The magistrate
The magistrate refuges to help him, so Victor replies with anger.
Page148 Line 36-38
Captain
The creature
Page 166
Page 123 Line 1-2
5
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and what I now Walton feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”
still feels pain that it was not treated well. It was not the solution to make others unhappy because it doesn’t feel pleased. The creature realizes its fault and go away.
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Line 29-34
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TOTAL:
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1
Analysis Guide Adapted from Toms River Regional Schools
AP English Literature and Composition Ms. Laurin Werner
Directions 1. Complete ONE Analysis Guide PER text to the best of your ability (not to the best of SparkNotes’, Shmoops’, or anyone else’s ability). 2. You will need to conduct outside research to complete certain items such as historical era/cultural movement and socio-cultural and historical context. Cite your sources. 3. If you are unfamiliar with any terms on this guide, refer to the AP Lit. Terms document for help. 4. I highly recommend typing your answers directly into this form and then printing the form when finished. This will allow you to take up as much room as necessary without the limits of handwriting.
The Basics (6 points) Full Title of Work (properly punctuated): Mary Shelley Frankenstein Year of Publication:
1994
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama Historical Era / Cultural Movement: Victorian era, Age of Enlightenment(Rationalism), Romanticism(What should be done is thought by human feeling) Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
Birth-Death Dates / Places: Born: August 30, 1797, in London, England. Died: February 1, 1851, in London, England (Brain cancer)
Setting(s) (2 points) *Consider times and places as well as significant socio-cultural and historical context.
Primary:
STUDENT NAME:
TOTAL:
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2
Secondary: Other:
Characters (5 points) Protagonists: Victor Frankenstein Antagonists:
The creature
Primary Foils [to whom?]:
Creature and Victor
Primary Love Interests & Sidekicks: Henry Clerval Minor Characters: The cottagers, Victor’s mother and father, Justine.
Central Conflicts (3 points) *Consider both sides in each conflict.
Primary External: Problems with the creature Primary Internal: The crimes that the creature has made might not be happened if it was not created. Secondary: Wants of reviving the deaths, Worries caused by missing the loved ones
Key Plot Points (5 points) Exposition: Happened in Geneva, Switzerland. Have a happy family. Living in a calm and aesthetic place. Rising Action: Seek knowledge, travel to other places, apart from family Climax: The creature is created, and the protagonist knows that he is mistaken. Falling Action: Crimes are made by the creature to show its disappointments Resolution: Bad things happened, the protagonist seeks happiness, the creature lives with its wounds.
Narrative Style (3 points) *Consider point of view, distinctive literary style / literary devices used, and narrator’s name / character traits.
First person narration Themes (2 points) *Reminder: themes are usually 3-5-word phrases, not full sentences or 1-word answers.
Primary: to be different
STUDENT NAME:
TOTAL:
/ 42
3
Secondary: to proceed without considering the consequences
Symbols, Metaphors, and Allegories (3 points) Allegories: Before doing something, a person must consider the effects coming after. Symbols: The creature can represent the effects of prejudice. Metaphors: “Her voice was musical” described by the creature when it heard the voice of the stranger who came to the cottagers. Mythological, Biblical, Literary, Historical, Scientific, and Cultural Allusions : Scientific Allusion – Experiments of Galvanism which could bring back life from charging electricity to death bodies. Other Significant Literary Devices / Notable Aspects (3 points) Simile- “She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away, like a nightingale of the woods.”
Significant Quotes (10 points) *Include at least 5 that span the beginning, middle, and end of the text. Focus your choice of quotes on characterization. This will help you when writing your first essay!
Who?
Victor Frankenstein
Alphonse Frankenstein
Said What? (exact words and punctuation in “ ”) “You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be the serpent to sting you, as mine has been” “William is dead! – that sweet child, whose smile delighted and warmed my heart, who was
To Whom?
Why?
Page # or Line #
Captain Walton
Victor has made an unforgettable mistake from his will to bring back life
Page 13 Line 7-10
Victor Frankenstein
William, Victor’s younger brother, was murdered while Victor was on his way
Page 46 Line 18-19
STUDENT NAME:
Victor Frankenstein
The creature
The creature
The creature
TOTAL:
so gentle, yet so gay! Victor, he is murdered!” “You are all Ernest mistaken; I know the murderer. Justine, poor, good Justine, is innocent” “I thought (foolish wretch) that it might be in my power to restore happiness to these deserving people.” “They are kind – they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me. I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold a detestable monster” “You must create a female for me, with whom I can
/ 42
back to Geneva. Victor knows that Justine would not kill her own brother, he saw the creature that might be the murderer. The creature has good wills to help others and bring happiness.
Page 53 Line1-2
De Lacey, the blinded old man
The creature wanted to be accepted but was meanly judged by its appearance which unlike human.
Page 95 Line 36-40
Victor Frankenstein
The creature feels isolated that it has to live alone in
Page 104 Line 8-11
Victor Frankenstein
The end of page 80 and the beginning of page 81
4
STUDENT NAME:
The creature
Victor Frankenstein
The creature
TOTAL:
live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuge to concede” “‘Shall each man,’ cried he, ‘find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate; but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.” “You refuge my just demand : I have but one resource; and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction” “I shall die,
/ 42
the world that doesn’t see what he really is.
Victor Frankenstein
The creature is angry because Victor refuges to give him a companion to live with and destroys his own experiment in front of the creature.
Page 122 Line 37-40
The magistrate
The magistrate refuges to help him, so Victor replies with anger.
Page148 Line 36-38
Captain
The creature
Page 166
Page 123 Line 1-2
5
STUDENT NAME:
TOTAL:
and what I now Walton feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”
still feels pain that it was not treated well. It was not the solution to make others unhappy because it doesn’t feel pleased. The creature realizes its fault and go away.
/ 42
Line 29-34
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