HOMEWORK: YOU CREATIVE PROJECT IS DUE TOMORROW, NOV. 24. YOU WILL BE MAKING A PRESENTATION ABOUT YOUR WORK.
WHAT WE DID IN CLASS TODAY: We discussed the following questions and had reading conferences.
Discussion Questions
Frankenstein, Chapters 11-17
Directions: Discuss the following questions with you group, but write your own answers in the discussion section of your notebook.
1. At the end of chapter 10, what factors motivate Victor to agree to listen to his creation's story?
2. The first several pages of chapter 11narrate specifically the creature's growth in consciousness, much as an infant (in a longer chronological period) would awaken gradually to life. What are some of the details of the creature's innocent awakening which move you? Do any seem unusually poignant? Why?
3. The creature's successive mistreatment by every human being he meets gradually changes his response to people. Does this personality change seem normal to you under the circumstances? Can you give any modern example from film, writing, or real life of such a change?
4. What are some lessons the creature learns from observing the De Laceys?
5. Do you see the advent of Safie as an event that may cause the creature pain? What is your reaction as you read Shelley's description of her effect on Felix?
6. At the end of chapter 13, the creature comments on his "additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful, self-deceit, to call them)." In light of this comment, how does Felix's blow affect him?
7. In addition to hearing from the conversations of the De Laceys and Safie of their past history, the creature is influenced by the discovery of some books. What are they? How does he respond to them?
8. How do the details of the creature's creation differ from the description of the creation of Adam?
CREATION OF ADAM
From Genesis 1:
26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31: And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
From Genesis 2:
1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2: And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3: And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5: And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6: But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
