27APRIL2016

Obituary in Honor of Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein dies at the age of twenty-four. He was a young man who attended the University of Ingolstadt. He received his degree in Physics while learning to master re-making life after death. Victor Frankenstein was found lying face down in his room working on one of his scientific experiments. He is a very smart man who has lost his parents to scarlet fever and his brother was murdered.

Frankenstein lived a great life until he got to the age of twenty-two. After he turned twenty-two, the scientific works started overtaking his brain and he became a mental case. The police believe the cause of his death was a heart attack. He is survived by his fiance, Elizabeth Lavenza. She is his adopted sister but they fell in love at a young age. He was born in Naples, Geneva.

21APRIL2016

Objective: The motive for William’s murder appears to have been theft. Elizabeth is overcome with guilt because she thinks the murder is her fault because she placed the stolen locket that is thought to have been the motive on William’s neck. The objective of this lesson is to discuss objects.

1. What is the significance of the locket Elizabeth gave to William? 

The significance of the locket Elizabeth gave to William is that it is a picture of his mother.

2. Why did she give it to William? Why is it thought that the locket was motive for the crime? 

She gave it to William because she did not need it, she felt he needed it so he could remember his mother. It is thought that the locket is the motive for the crime because it is a very valuable locket.

3. Why would Elizabeth feel guilty for William’s murder? 

Elizabeth would feel guilty for William's murder because the locket is expensive and that is believed to be the reason he was murdered.

4. Why does the apparent motive for the crime make Elizabeth think Justine is innocent?

Elizabeth thinks Justine is innocent because Justine is a nice girl that is not troubled in any way, the family takes good care of her. She has no reason to want the locket.
5. Review the evidence in William’s murder and write (detailed paragraph) an argument for or against the locket being the motive.

The locket is the motive for the murder because when you walk to the crime scene and see that  the locket is missing when he had it before, this has to be the motive because it was the only valuable thing William had at the time. 
6. Define objects. Write a detailed paragraph describing the use of objects in a plot and how Shelley uses objects to add motive or tension to the plot. Include examples, such as the locket as a motive for murder.
Objects are a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed. Some objects in Frankenstein are the Bible, the locket, and light and fire. Mary Shelley uses objects in her plot to make there be more tension. She also uses it because it creates confusion and curiosity to the readers because people make their own assumptions of what really happens.

7. Write a detailed paragraph that analyzes Elizabeth’s assumption that William’s death is somehow her fault. Discuss how this attitude illustrates Elizabeth’s gentle nature. Use quotes from the novel to support your conclusions. 

Before the execution, Elizabeth pleads to Victor to make the right decision. Everyone knows that Victor did not do it. Elizabeth feels that William's death is her fault because she cannot stop the execution even though she doesn't have the power to (she isn't in the position and she literally cannot stop the execution. Victor is the only one that can). This shows that she is gentle natured because she is trying her best to save an innocent man but she can't; therefore, she grieves over it and feels that it is her fault. Victor had a quote about Elizabeth: "She is full of sensibility and intellect."

20APRIL2016

Objective: Victor goes on a trip alone in hopes of alleviating the guilt and depression that has overcome him since William and Justine’s deaths. While on this trip, Victor is confronted by his creature. The objective of this lesson is to discuss theme.1. Why is Victor depressed? Victor is depressed because he just found out his brother died. Justine Morris was convicted of killing William. No one knew about the monster so Victor could not fess up to this.2. Why does he feel responsible for what happened to William and Justine? Victor feels responsible for William and Justine's death because they are both a result of Victor creating Frankenstein.3. Could Victor have prevented either death? Yes, he could have prevented both deaths by not creating the monster which would have prevented William from getting murdered. By confessing that he created the monster and that it wasn't Justine that killed his brother she would not have been executed.4. Why does Victor go on this trip? Victor goes on this trip to the valley of Chamounix to try to remember what life was like before he created Frankenstein. 5. How does he come into contact with his creature during the trip? Victor comes in contact with Frankenstein during the trip when he sees him through the woods and is somewhat surprised to see him because it all comes together that Frankenstein is the one that killed William.6. What is Victor’s first reaction to the creature? What does he do? Victor is surprised and shocked because he knows that the creature he created murdered his own brother.7. What should he have done differently? Victor should have owned up to his own-doing and maybe killed it before it got out of hand.8. In a detailed paragraph, that incorporates quotes from the novel, discuss the theme of guilt. Focus on Victor’s feelings of guilt, where they come from, and how he hopes to overcome them.The theme of guilt in this novel correlates throughout the entirety. Guilt means feeling at fault for doing something when there is a bad outcome. "I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer. Elizabeth read my anguish in my countenance, and kindly taking my hand, said, "My dearest friend, you must calm yourself. These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are. There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble. Dear Victor, banish these dark passions. Remember the friends around you, who centre all their hopes in you. Have we lost the power of rendering you happy? Ah! While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing--what can disturb our peace?" This quote is Victor expressing his guilt about Justine and his brother. 9. Define symbolism. Make a list of examples (at least three) of symbolism from the novel. For example, you could list Chamounix Valley as symbolizing good childhood memories for Victor.Symbolism is an indirect suggestion to express ideas, emotions, and states of mind. Three uses of symbolism are light, fire,and the Chamounix Valley. Light is a symbol because it expresses dark light, the secrets that go on in the novel. Fire is also a symbol because this story is Greek and they were punished for this. The Chamounix Valley is a symbol because this is where Victor had childhood memories with his parents. He does not have much of a relationship with his parents anymore because they think he is crazy.
10. Define guilt. Make a list of all the reasons why Victor might feel guilty for the deaths of William and Justine at this point in the novel. 
Guilt is the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime. 
-creating a monster
-death of his brother
-feeling responsible for his brothers murder
-not telling anyone about creating the monster
-being selfish
-letting Justine get the downside of it by getting executed

18APRIL2016

Lesson

Objective: Victor thinks he can create life or create a creature like himself. Victor begins taking pieces of discarded corpses and using them to create this creature, working himself into exhaustion and failing to keep in contact with his family and friends. The objective of this lesson is to discuss theme.

1. Why would Victor want to build and give life to a creature? 

Victor would want to build and give life to a creature because he wanted to feel in control, no other person could do this feat, therefore he is over them. This is a god-like doing, Victor wanted to have all power.

2. Why does Victor use his chosen materials for this creature? 

Victor uses his chosen materials for this creature because the materials of different dead animals and a person have cells in them, even if they are dead cells. I feel like the more dead cells there are, the more thrilled he becomes.

3. Does Victor really expect to have success with this experiment? 

Yes, Victor fully expects to have success with this experiment.

4. Why does Victor become so obsessed that he stops communicating with his family and friends? 

Victor becomes obsessed with creating the creature and stops communicating with his family and friends because he wants to succeed so badly. 

5. What does this suggest about Victor’s relationships with his family, about his purpose in this experiment?

Victor wants to feel good enough, his family feels as if he was never good enough. Because of this, Victor wants to succeed in creating the monster so much. 

6. (Using SCDISCUS) Research theories about death and the idea of restoring life that were popular at the time in which the novel is set.Write a detailed paragraph about your research  along with your conclusions connecting your research with Victor’s actions.

**I was unable to use SC Discus at home because I did not know the school ID or password so I used google scholar.
It is said that wetlands can help the cause of making human restoration possible. The environment's vegetation and algae are helpful towards this also. Some people do not believe in life after death, some people do. Even the people who do believe in life after death have a hard time of believing this. Victor became a madman to complete this project; it took up all of his time. This drove him insane.

7. Write a detailed paragraph discussing the theme of death as it is illustrated in this section of the novel. You should use quotes from the novel to support your conclusions.

In this section of the novel, dangerous knowledge is the theme, this means that death will occur because people know too much, or they think they do.  The power of the creature was unknown because he was very strong and not at all what Victor thought he was creating. Death was in this section of the novel because William Frankenstein, Victor's brother, gets choked to death in the woods by the creature. The death of his brother deeply hurt Victor and made him feel guilty about ever creating the monster. This quote shows that Henry wants victor to find Elizabeth. "Come, dearest Victor, you alone can console Elizabeth. She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart." This shows that Elizabeth feels great remorse for the death of him.

8. Analyze Victor’s desire to find a way to reverse the processes of death. Use quotes from the novel to support your conclusions. Respond in a detailed paragraph. 

Victor wants to find the way to reverse the process of death because he and everyone else knows that someone coming alive after death is supernatural. This feat would only be done in the eyes of God himself. "So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." In this quote, Victor speaks about  how what he hopes to accomplish successfully is supernatural and hard to believe. Victor Frankenstein wants to be in control and have all of the power. 

1APRIL2016

Objective: Act 5, Scene 1 Lady Macbeth is falling physically ill due to her inner and emotional turmoil. The objective of this lesson will be to discuss the connection of our physical beings and our emotional beings, and to find some parallels of this phenomenon in the student's lives.

1) "Physical" and "Emotional" Write a short essay about how these two terms are connected. How are these connected? What examples of this have you seen in your life? Why are they connected? Do you believe they can affect each other? Why or why not?
       Physical and emotional are related in that they are both cognitive thinking. Emotional is more along the lines of how one processes information and physical is maintaining attention to focus on a task. You can feel both physical and emotional pain, sadness, joy, and happiness. 
       Examples of these are that when I was younger, I always got scratches from my dog; these are physical pains. Emotional is when someone hurts you in a way that they may have spoken badly about you or said something mean to you. 
        These two things are connected in that they are both painful, they hurt the same, it is just a different kind of pain. Yes, I do believe these two things can have a rebound affect on each other to affect the other. They can affect each other because one pain relates back to another.

2) Reread the part that describes the ailments Lady Macbeth is suffering from. Write about what you think is causing these strange physical ailments.
Lady Macbeth is sleep walking with her eyes open. Her sleep walking creates a scene for the audience to understand what is going on and what she is thinking. The sleep walking comes from her husband, Macbeth, killing someone. 

3) Reread the part where the doctor says that Lady Macbeth needs a priest and not a doctor. What does she mean by this? Do you agree with him? Why or why not? What can a priest give her that a doctor cannot? What made the doctor say this? Do you think the doctor could have done more for her than he did? Why or why not?
This means that a doctor can not cure her, she needs God in her life to save her from these supernatural occurrences. Priests can give Lady Macbeth somethings doctors can not because doctors do not have the cure in this time period to save her. 

4) Lady Macbeth is feeling the physical effects of her emotional turmoil. Write about a time when an emotional ailment of this sort manifested itself in a physical way.
Emotional ailments, like when someone lies to their mother and the child has to continue making more lies to cover up for their one little white lie, are times when it manifested and grew bigger than it ever should have been.

Objective: Act 5, Scene 2 Loyalty is a very common theme in this book. The objective of this lesson will be to discuss some of the examples of loyalty shown between the different characters.

1) Write down your definition of the word Loyalty. Now write the dictionary definition. How does the dictionary definition match up with all of ours? Is there something missing? What do we need to add to make it whole?

To me, loyalty means that someone can trust someone and they do not talk badly about you or to you; they never hurt you. The dictionary definition of loyalty is: a strong feeling of support or allegiance. The support from the dictionary definition to my definition was missing. To make the definition whole, we need to change the definition to never hurting anyone. 

2) Make a list of all the characters we have met thus far. Which three characters  have best shown loyalty. Use examples from the book to back up your choices.
-Macbeth
-Lady Macbeth
-The three witches
-Banquo
-Macduff
-King Duncan
-Malcolm
-Hecate
-Fleance
-Lennox
-The murderers
The three characters that have shown loyalty are: Lady Macbeth, the three witches, and the murderers. 

3) Reread the part where Macbeth mourns his lack of loyalty. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
I agree with Macbeth in that he knows he is not loyal because he continues to see ghosts of Banquo and it is freaking him out and making him say things that would get him caught.

4) Macbeth states that Duncan used to be the most loyal men he has ever known. Write about the most loyal person you know.
The most loyal person I know is my father. When he and I agree on something he always backs me up on my opinion. 

18MARCH2016

Objective: Victor’s mother dies after nursing Elizabeth through a bout of scarlet fever. Victor’s departure to school is delayed by his mother’s death. When Victor arrives at school, his love of philosophy is both ridiculed and encouraged. Victor soon thinks he has found the secret of life. The objective of this lesson is to discuss relationships.

1. How does Victor’s mother die? 

Victor's mother died of scarlet fever.

2. How does this death impact the members of the family? 

Victor takes his mothers death hard. Because he has no control, this seems to be more of a reason to become the monster he is.

3. How does Victor respond to this early tragedy in his life? 

Victor says the death does not affect him and does not think he should explain his feelings. Instead, he goes and studies more and more.

4. Who encourages Victor to study philosophy? 

Doctor Kempe and Doctor Waldman encourages Victor to study philosophy.

5. What secret does Victor believe he has found? 

Victor believes he found the secret to life.

6. What does Victor plan to do with this information?

Victor plans to reanimate dead tissue.

7. Write a short essay the impact of Caroline Frankenstein’s death on Victor at the time of her death and later while he is at school. Use quotes to support your conclusions.

Victor takes Caroline Frankenstein's' death very hard. Caroline was warned to stay away from Elizabeth because she would get scarlet fever but she did not listen. Victor can not believe that his mother is gone now. Taking his mothers death so hard, Victor postpones his departure date for college. During college, the death made Victor a solitaire person, he enjoyed the silence.

8. In a detailed paragraph, discuss the philosophers Victor previously studied and why this leads to ridicule by a university professor. Discuss as well the antiquated ideas and how they could lead to trouble for young Victor.

Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus are the philosophers Victor used to study, Dr. Krempe and Dr. Waldman are odd characters themselves but Victor does not like the way Dr. Krempe teaches or the subjects he teaches. Dr. Waldman, on the other hand, and Victor become close. Victor loves the way Dr. Waldman teaches and what he teaches. The antiquated ideas that could lead to trouble for Victor are that he and Elizabeth are getting married and it has been set up for a while. After Caroline's death, Elizabeth is the caretaker.

9. In a detailed paragraph, discuss educational traditions in the time period in which this novel was written and the impact of going to university is designed to have on young Victor’s future.

This novel was written during the Age Of Enlightenment, meaning there was a new set of rules to go by. There are a lot of new things happening in the world like new discoveries. It was imperative for Victor to go to a university so he could learn the new things.

10March2016

Objective: Robert Walton is an adventurer who has always heard stories of the North Pole and he wants to see it for himself. On his journey, Robert Walton meets Victor Frankenstein, a man of his own class who has a wild story to tell. Robert Walton communicates this information, as well as Victor’s story, to his sister through letters. The objective of this lesson will be to discuss setting.

1. Why is Walton going to the North Pole? 

Walton said he wanted to see a place that was full of "eternal light," Walton also said that it was a place of beauty and delight.

2. Why would Shelley choose such a remote area for the setting of her novel? 

Mary Shelley chose Europe, in the Arctic Ocean, to be the setting of the book in the beginning because it would give it some drama and start off with a bang. 

3. How does this remote setting reflect the themes introduced in this first part of the novel? 

Some themes in the beginning of Frankenstein are: dangerous knowledge, good nature, and letters. The setting helps these themes become themes in the first part of the novel; dangerous knowledge means that Victor pushes himself and others to the brink to reach the North Pole. Good nature is a a theme because romanticism is involved and begins to take over. Letters start the novel because Frankenstein develops into the monster he is. 

4. What does Victor’s sudden appearance on an ice flow suggest about his situation and the story he plans to tell? 
Victor's sudden appearance of an ice flow suggests that his situation is very dangerous and not a smart idea. The story he plans to tell is a good one. He plans to tell a story of him as a child growing up in Geneva. He said how he got a sister who was adopted so he could marry her later on. Victor also figured out how to make a deceased body come to life after 5 years of college.

5. How does Shelley telling the reader about Walton’s hearing wild stories about the North Pole foreshadow the type of story Frankenstein will tell?
Frankenstein will tells stories about him becoming a monster and what he used to be. His curiosity and interest in science lead him to tell stories about it.

6. In a detailed paragraph, formulate an argument for or against Robert Walton completing his planned trip to the North Pole, citing reasons why this trip might be too dangerous or too exciting to miss. 
At the time of the novel, the North Pole was even more dangerous than it is now. There are more technological advances than there were at the time so it is much less dangerous today. It also had not been explored much in the early 19th century. He did not know what was there or what he was getting himself into, there was a lot of danger because he could have died easily. The ice, climate, and food were a major issue in the North Pole.

7. Research information on the North Pole as it would have been available during the novel’s setting. Use your research information to identify the dangers of traveling in that area and offer possible explanations for Victor’s situation and/or dangers Walton might face traveling in the area. Write a detailed paragraph explaining what you learned.
The arctic had been explored by many, such as the Vikings, bu the first to reach the North Pole in 1827, This means that the North Pole was undiscovered and research made it mysterious and dangerous. Many expositions failed because they could not get past the ice. Victor and Walton had a very rough trip going to the North Pole and went in blind, not knowing what was there in terms of animals and predators.

8. Write a few detailed paragraphs that discuss how the setting of the North Pole illustrates the theme of loneliness in this early section of the novel.
The North Pole relates to this novel and its theme "loneliness' becuase in the North Pole, it never gets over zero degrees, so it is freezing there almost all throughout the year. It is always snowing in the North Pole. 

In the North Pole, it relates to loneliness because there is hardly sunshine; therefore, many people do not enjoy staying in the cold temperatures for long periods of time. As a result, not many people live there or visit at all.