FrankenStudent

A Student Guide to understanding Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Supplementary Texts

Short Stories:
"The Birth-mark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (full text)
"Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (full text)
"The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe (full text)
"...That Thou Art Mindful of Him" by Isaac Asimov
"What is Man?" by Mark Twain (full text)
"A New Life" by Ramsey Campbell

Poems:
"Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats (full text)
"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron - (full text) opening credits for Vanity Fair
"Darkness" by Lord Byron - excerpt video clip

Articles:
Review for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1995) by Roger Ebert
"A Frankenstein Monster Ended Up Being a Lamb" by Ed Regis, NY Times

Novels:
Monster by Walter Dean Meyers (juxtapose this text to develop critical thinking/questioning)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson movie clip
The Golem
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

Anthologies:
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein Editor: Stephen Jones
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Dr. Frankenstein at Work
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow."
-Dr. Victor Frankenstein

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