Frankenstein homework ideas

Motherless and losing her own child at 17 she drafted the first edition in 1818 after the monster came to her in a nightmare. By the time she had re-edited it in 1831 she had lost another 2 children and her husband, and much of its softer language was lost.

Mary Shelley’s powerful and thought provoking novel challenges our assumptions of good and evil and encourages the audience to see all creations as equal and deserving of love. Frankenstein’s ‘hideous wretch’ seeks only the maternal care it is immediately denied therein leading to fascinating and lively classroom discussion.

Frankenstein’s ‘hideous wretch’ seeks only the maternal care it is immediately denied therein leading to fascinating and lively classroom discussion. The novel cannot be understood fully without students becoming aware of the fact that its writer was a 20 year old woman who had already suffered greatly in her short life.

It is not often in literature that you find yourself unexpectantly on the side of the monster. Mary Shelley’s powerful and thought provoking novel challenges our assumptions of good and evil and encourages the audience to see all creations as equal and deserving of love.