Frankenstein Webquest

Brief Summary

Frankenstein's Gothic Elements

Frankenstein Web-quest Group 3

The book is told from a man named Robert Walton, who is a sailor trapped in a frozen who finds a man named Victor Frankenstein. After being nursed back to health by Robert, Victor tells him the tale of his life. Victor tells of the monster he created and how it wanted to ruin his life. Victor vowed to kill the monster for killing his fianceé, then Victor dies. Robert finds the monster crying of Victor.

• In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses mysterious means to create Frankenstein's monster
• Supernatural elements such as raising the dead.
• macabre science unknown at the time.
• A pseudomedieval setting.

Frankenstein's Science Fiction Elements

• Mary Shelley writes about futuristic technology that didn't exist at the time.
• Scientific investigation goes beyond human control.
• Frankenstein is the peak of scientific ambition.

Gothic Fiction: A genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothic fiction embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotions, the thrill of fearfulness and awe of inheritance in the sublime. Ex: the castle of Otranto in Dracula.

Science fiction: Stories about how people and societies are affected by imaginary scientific development. Ex: the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Dracula Plot

Jonathon Harker travels to the castle of Dracula in the country of Transylvania to conduct a real estate transaction with Count Dracula. While at the castle, Jonathon learns that Dracula is evil. Also Lucy Westernra becomes ill due to Dracula's spell. Lucy turns into a vampire. Van Helsing and his comrades kill her and chase Dracula across eastern Europe and kill him.

Victor is the Modern Prometheus

Works Cited

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Utterson attempts to discover the truth about the Jekyll and Hyde relationship. A servant girl witnessed Hyde;s murder. Utterson leads the police to Jekyll because he believed that Jekyll was behind it. Lanyon gives Utterson a letter that he instructs him not to open until after Jekyll's death. Utterson leaves Jekyll's laboratory and reads the letter. The letter explains everything.

• www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/summary.html
• https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/gothic_fiction.html
• www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science%20fiction
• www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/summary.html
• www.sparknotes.com/lit/jekyll

• Prometheus made mankind for Zeus and later he stole fire from the gods and gave it to his creations.
• As punishment, Zeus ordered Prometheus to be bound to a rock and have a great eagle eat his liver for eternity
• The Prometheus myth helped spark the humanist movement, in which Mary Shelley was part of
• Modern Prometheus is the act of creation and giving of life.
• Prometheus aids his creations while Victor abandons his.
• Victor Frankenstein takes responsibility for bringing his creation into the world only to take it back out.