Mini Lesson
Mini-Lesson: Plot Structure
STR 3.A – IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE HOW PLOT ORDERS EVENTS IN A NARRATIVE.
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Frankenstein Wrap-Up:
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Reorder the plot events listed in your handout.
Afterwards, identify the narrator of that section of the frame narrative.
Frankenstein: Plot Structure Notes
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Directions: Drag and drop the quotes into the right order. Afterwards, label the section narrator at the time of each quote. (Walton, Victor, or the Creature)
Frankenstein: Plot Structure Activity
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“Such were the professor’s words—rather let me say such the words of fate—enounced to destroy me.”
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“I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to
life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.”
“The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but
the fangs of remorse tore at my bosom, and would not forego their hold.”
“What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?”
“We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin. No word, no expression
could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me—my more than sister,
since till death she was to be mine only.”
“I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers—their grace, beauty, and delicate
complexions; but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back…I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity.”
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Directions: Drag and drop the quotes into the right order. Afterwards, label the section narrator at the time of each quote. (Walton, Victor, or the Creature)
Frankenstein: Plot Structure Activity (Part 2)
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"I had resolved in my own mind that that to create another like the fiend I had first
made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness.”
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“God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary
and abhorred.
“But I am a blasted tree; the bold has entered my soul; and I felt that I should survive to
exhibit what I shall soon cease to be—a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”
“But, as if possessed of magic powers, the monster had blinded me to his real intentions;
and when I thought I had prepared only my death, I hastened that of a far dearer victim.”
“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently
innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.”
“This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.”
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FRAME NARRATIVE
Most gothic novels use an indirect narrator or narrative framing.
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What is the effect of the narrative framing structure of Frankenstein? How does it do more than just make it gothic?
Answer here.
Frankenstein Notes and Quotes
Chapter 24 Complete the following three slides while reading chapter 24.
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Chapter 24
Quotes to Know - Consider the importance of each quote as you read.
Jot some ideas in the boxes to the left.
“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.” (Chapter 24)
Frankenstein: Chapter 24
Quotes
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“Do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse? He suffered not in the consummation of the deed. Oh! Not the ten-thousandth portion of the anguish that was mine during the lingering detail of its execution.” (Chapter 24)
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Quotes to Know - Consider the importance of each quote as you read.
Jot some ideas in the boxes to the left.
“You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall. Hypocritical fiend!” (Chapter 24)
Frankenstein: Chapter 24
Quotes Continued
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“But it is so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.” (Chapter 24)
“I, the miserable and abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” (Chapter 24)
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Frankenstein: Chapter 24
Notes
Compare and contrast Walton with Frankenstein.
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