Learning Intention
To be able to appreciate the narrative choices of a writer in terms of the effect on the reader
Key Competency
Thinking
Success Criteria
I have contributed to our discussion forum to explain my thoughts on why Shelley made particular plot choices and the effect on the reader
As we've seen, Shelley opens Frankenstein with a set of letters between characters who are not central to the main plot of the novel.
- Why do you think she does this?
- What does it tell us about the context of the story?
- When we are introduced to "traveller" what impression of him is built up through Walton's letters?
- Who is he?
- How do you think this prepares us for the 'main' story?
Able students should explore Romanticism in more detail by looking at some of the Romantic poems alluded to in the text – ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ‘Mutability’, Percy Shelley.
http://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/the-sea-of-ice-1824.html (‘The Sea of Ice’)
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_f.html#frame_narrative_anchor (clear definition of ‘frame narrative’)
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_e.html#epistolary_anchor (definition of ‘epistolary’)
http://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/the-sea-of-ice-1824.html (‘The Sea of Ice’)
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_f.html#frame_narrative_anchor (clear definition of ‘frame narrative’)
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_e.html#epistolary_anchor (definition of ‘epistolary’)
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