LITERATURE IN ENGLISH XII TO XV CENTURY

SERGIO RAMIREZ INFANTE

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SOFIA CASTAÑEDA

INTRODUCTION TO FRANKENSTEIN

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

- What elements in these ghost stories can be found in the typical ghost story?

One of the elements of the ghosts stories, that I found was the thought author’s
all authors of these stories have a different vision of the world, they are persons
with a great imagination and sometimes when they write these stories they lost
his mind, this author’s situation gives to the story more realism.
Other element in the stories is the setting where the tale is develop, in the
ghosts stories always the develop of the this is in a dark place in the night, with
characters that transmit fear to the readers with evil characteristics, the author
to describe an action in the story use dark words without forget the smallest
detail of the scene.

- What did Mary Shelley think of her husband story telling ability?

He was an excellent story telling, she describes her husband like a men with a
brilliant eloquence, when he told a story he with his words showed clearly his
ideas and feelings.

- Why might Mary Shelley have had such a hard time thinking of a story?

She had a hard time during the thinking of the beginning of the story because
she wanted a story with al characteristics of a thriller, make feel fear to the
reader, transmit terror with her words, but his mind was in blank she felt that his
mind can produce nothing to write a complete horror story.
- What insight do these observations give into personalities of Byron and
Shelley?

They were uncommon people whom talked about experiments and how through
science create artificially life, they had a vision beyond to their time, Mary
Shelley besides was a silent listener who listened all about galvanism, she was
really interest in create life with electricity.

- How is the romantic concern about the nature of creativity reflected here?

The importance of life and respect for all god’s creations, we as human been
have to preserve the nature and life, and we can use the necessary sources to
preserve it, in this case the galvanism, that was the influence of lord Byron and
other authors on Mary Shelley

- Would the romantics have admired or deplored Mary Shelley’s imaginative

reverie why?

They admired the Mary Shelley works because she, with Frankenstein showed
her individual work develop deep in her mind with her imagination and how it
can become in story that reflects how was a society. And how An imaginative
act can become in a myth.

- Explain why the author says she has affection for her horror story?

Because Mary Shelly did a deep and powerful work with her imagination, joining
romanticism with fiction and horror, using scary situations to emphasize the
emotions of fear and awe