what grade do you feel my frankenstein coursework is? bee honestt :)?

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Question by ghetto rose: what grade do you feel my frankenstein coursework is? bee honestt :)?
FRANKENSTEIN WAS WRITTEN IN THE EARLY 1800’S, A TIME WHEN THERE WERE NEW DISCOVERIES BEING CONCEIVED ALMOST DAILY AND PEOPLE WERE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT WAS SEEN TO BE MORALLY ETHICAL. FRANKENSTEIN IS A STORY ABOUT A YOUNG AND NAÏVE SCIENTIST WHO PUSHES THESE BOUNDARIES BEYOND THE LIMIT BY PLAYING GOD AND CREATING LIFE.
THE STORY BEGINS WITH CAPTAIN ROBERT WALTON WRITING LETTERS TO HIS SISTER ABOUT HIS VOYAGE TO DISCOVER A PASSAGE THROUGH THE NORTH POLE. SHELLEY USES THE LETTERS TO CREATE A SENSE OF REALISM IN THE STORY BECAUSE TO THE AUDIENCE IT MAY SEEM THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT SHELLEY FOUND THE LETTERS AND WAS RETELLING A TRUE STORY. THE MOST OBVIOUS ‘DEEPER’ MEANING TO THE NOVEL IS A WARNING TO SCIENTISTS TO NOT BECOME OBSESSED WITH THEIR INVESTIGATIONS AND IF THEY DO DISCOVER SOMETHING POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THEY SHOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT. THIS IS SHOWN WHEN VICTOR IS TALKING ABOUT CAPTAIN WALTON’S VOYAGE AND SAYS THAT HE HAS ‘DRUNK ALSO FROM THE INTOXICATING CUP’ WHEN HE REALISES THAT WALTON HAS BECOME OBSESSED.
IN CHAPTER 5 WE SEE THE CREATION OF THE MONSTER AND THIS IS WHEN FRANKENSTEIN BECOMES FEARFUL OF HIS CREATION AND ATTEMPTS TO ABANDON IT FOREVER. THE CHAPTER STARTS BY SETTING THE SCENE AS A ‘DREARY NIGHT ON NOVEMBER,’ HERE SHELLEY IS USING PROPHETIC FALLACY TO FORESHADOW SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENING. WHEN FRANKENSTEIN BRINGS THE BODY THAT HE HAD DESIGNED AS BEAUTIFUL TO LIFE HE SEE’S THAT IT NOT AS HE HAD HOPED, IT HAD BECOME A ‘CATASTROPHE’. TRAUMATIZED BY THIS ‘CATASTROPHE’, FRANKENSTEIN ATTEMPTS TO HIDE FROM THE MONSTER AND BY THE NEXT MORNING THE MONSTER HAS DISAPPEARED. HERE, FRANKENSTEIN HAS SHOWN NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE LIFE HE HAS CREATED AND IT IS THE FIRST SIGN OF HATRED TOWARDS THE MONSTER WHICH IS THE FIRST LINK IN THE CHAIN THAT MAKES THE MONSTER EVIL.
WHEN FRANKENSTEIN ABANDONS HIS CREATION IT SHOWS THAT HE DID NOT FOLLOW IN HIS PARENTS FOOTSTEPS OF TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ‘INNOCENT AND HELPLESS CREATURE BESTOWED ON THEM’. WHEN FRANKENSTEIN WAS BEING RAISED, HIS PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY WAS ‘TO DIRECT HIM TO HAPPINESS OR MISERY’. THIS SHOWS THAT BECAUSE FRANKENSTEIN WAS BEING LOOKED AFTER HE HAD A HAPPY CHILDHOOD AND IMPLIES THAT IF HE WAS NOT LOOKED AFTER HE WOULD BE DIRECTED TO MISERY. THEREFORE, WITHOUT CARE AND DIRECTION TOWARDS THE VERY CHILDLIKE MONSTER, IT WOULD BECOME MISERABLE AND BE MORE INCLINED TO DO EVIL THINGS.
WHEN THE MONSTER IS BROUGHT TO LIFE SHELLEY USES LOTS OF IMAGERY TO CREATE A VIVID PICTURE OF A HIDEOUS ‘WRETCH’, SHE WRITES THAT THE SKIN OF THE MONSTER ‘SCARCELY COVERS THE WORK OF THE MUSCLES AND ARTERIES’ AND THAT THE ‘LUSTROUS BLACK’ HAIR AND THAT THE ‘TEETH OF A PEARLY WHITENESS’ CREATE A ‘HORRID CONTRAST’. THIS CREATES AN INHUMAN IMAGE IN THE MIND OF THE READER. SHELLEY USES THIS HORRID IMAGE TO CREATE A PREJUDICE IN THE MIND OF THE READER WHICH ASSUMES THE MONSTER IS GOING TO BE EVIL. WHEN FRANKENSTEIN RETIRES TO HIS ROOM AND HAS NIGHTMARES ABOUT THE MONSTER, SHELLEY DESCRIBES THE NOISES IT MAKES AS ‘INARTICULATE’, THIS DESCRIPTION IS USED TO MAKE THE MONSTER SEEM CHILDLIKE AND WHICH WILL GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT IT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AFTER, FRANKENSTEIN, AS ITS CREATOR, IS THE PERSON WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.
THIS CHAPTER LINKS TO THE THEME OF, DON’T BECOME OBSESSED, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER THE OBSESSION THAT FRANKENSTEIN HAD BEEN CONCENTRATING ON CAUSES HIM TO ALMOST DIE AND HE IS EXTREMELY ILL FOR A LONG TIME. WHERE IT NOT FOR THE MIRACULOUS APPEARANCE OF HIS FRIEND, HENRY CLERVAL, WHO HE HAD BEEN NEGLECTING DUE TO THE OBSESSION, HE WOULD HAVE DIED.
THE NOVEL WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE AUDIENCE BECAUSE DURING THE 1800’S ALMOST EVERYONE WAS EXTREMELY RELIGIOUS AND IT WAS THE MAIN REASON FOR THE WAY PEOPLE LIVED THEIR LIVES. THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT THE SCIENTISTS WERE TRYING TO REPLACE GOD, BECAUSE OF THE SENSE OF REALISM SHELLEY HAS CREATED THROUGHOUT THE STORY IT WOULD SHAVE MADE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IT WERE POSSIBLE TO BRING BACK THE DEAD. THIS WOULD HAVE OUTRAGED ANYONE WHO WAS RELIGIOUS BECAUSE IT WOULD MEAN THAT THE SCIENTISTS WOULD COMPLETE THEIR QUEST OF TAKING OVER THE ROLE OF GOD. THIS ALSO TIES IN WITH THE SUBTITLE OF THE NOVEL, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS; BECAUSE THE SCIENTISTS WOULD HAVE MADE THE STORY OF CREATING MAN A REALITY. THIS NOVEL REFLECTS MANY ASPECTS OF THE GOTHIC GENRE. LIKE THE MONSTER, WHICH CREATES TENSION AND DRAMA WITHIN THE NOVEL, ALSO THE DARK A DREARY SETTINGS, ESPECIALLY IN CHAPTER 5 WHERE IT SAYS “IT WAS ON A DREARY NIGHT OF NOVEMBER THAT I BEHELD THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF MY TOILS” IT CREATES THAT DARK AND CREEPY ATMOSPHERE WHERE YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. ALSO WITHIN CHAPTER 5 SOMETHING WHICH IS VERY MUCH THE 1800’S GOTHIC GENRE IS WHERE IT SAYS “MY CANDLE WAS NEARLY BURNT OUT, WHEN. BY THE GLIMMER OF THE HALF-EXTINGUISHED LIG

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2 Responses to what grade do you feel my frankenstein coursework is? bee honestt :)?

  1. Well, to start, you shouldn’t really post your coursework on the web, otherwise your teacher might think you plagiarized.

    It is kinda hard to read all in caps.

    But, it is alright, and you’ve used quotes effectively. Bit too much story-telling though

    Lollmania
    April 8, 2014 at 8:03 am
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  2. Since you are asking for honesty, I would say a “B.” However, since you do not give us your grade level, it is hard to truly judge. This would be an “A” at a middle school level, for instance. However, it is very irritating to read this in all caps, without breaks in the material, and that is probably clouding my judgment. Punctuation is important. I downgrade you for the lack of it. When you hand this, be mindful of spacing and punctuation–and NEVER present anything in all caps.

    soupkitty
    April 8, 2014 at 8:59 am
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