- The Creature learns a lot in this section, stating ‘Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like lichen on the rock.’ in groups research the different books which the creature reads or overhears: Ruins of Empire, The Sorrows of Werther and Plutarch’s Lives. How does the Creature react to them and why might Mary Shelley have picked these books?
- Make detailed notes on the De Lacey family – how are they similar and different to the Frankenstein family?
- Read aloud together the dramatic climax of Chapter 15. How does Shelley generate sympathy for the Creature?
Online versions of the texts the Creature learns from
http://www.annourbis.com/ruins-of-empire/ruins10.html (Ruins of Empire)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2527/2527-h/2527-h.htm (The Sorrows of Werther)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html (Plutarch’s Lives)
http://www.annourbis.com/ruins-of-empire/ruins10.html (Ruins of Empire)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2527/2527-h/2527-h.htm (The Sorrows of Werther)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html (Plutarch’s Lives)
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