02.06 Frankenstein and Rime PDF

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Are you ready to try your hand at interpreting allusions? Great! For this assignment, the first step of identifying allusions has been done for you (how nice!). Your job as a student of literature is to understand the allusion and interpret its function in Frankenstein. Re-read or revisit your annot...

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are you ready to try your hand at interpreting allusions? Great! For this assignment, the first step of identifying allusions has been done for you (how nice!). Your job as a student of literature is to understand the allusion and interpret its function in Frankenstein. Re-read or revisit your annotations of the Frankenstein excerpts and the Plot Overview (also located in the course Library), then complete the following: 1. Choose ONE of the identified allusions: Greek mythology: The whole title of Mary Shelley's novel is Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. So the title contains an allusion. That has to be significant, right? Read more about the Myth of Prometheus before you interpret the allusion. Genesis: A novel with a creator and a created being is bound to harken back to another creation story. Read the Genesis excerpts before you interpret the allusion. 2. Using what you know from reading the Frankenstein passages and the plot overview, analyze the allusion. 3. Write a developed paragraph with a claim, evidence, and commentary in which you analyze the allusion, explaining its function and its contribution to the meaning of the work as a whole.

In 1818, when Mary Shelley was getting ready to publish her new novel, she chose to give it two names, one of which was “The Modern Prometheus”. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, is given the character of a new-day version of the son of Iapetus, taking the fire from gods, creating human life in a controlled environment and even playing the role of “The Creator”. Just like Frankesintein was created from close to nothing, prometheus did the shame to mankind: “When he and his brother, Epimetheus, set out to make creatures to populate the earth under the orders of Cronos, Prometheus carefully crafted a creature after the shape of the gods: a man.”The story of Prometheus was a sort of outline for the creation of the classic Frankenstein that we know of. Shelley used him and his bravery to defy everything to create man and used it as inspiration for the story of her monster....