English-Romantic novels

Essay #1: Mary Shelley, William Godwin

Topics (PICK ONE):

1. How is the Monster’s obsessive personality like Mandeville’s? Why do both Mary

Shelley and William Godwin focus their attention on their characters’ obsessive,

unforgiving anger?

2. How can you use Mary Shelley’s and William Godwin’s daughter/father relationship to

interpret both Frankenstein and Mandeville?

3. Trace the Miltonic references in both Frankenstein and Mandeville. How and why are

both obsessed with Paradise Lost? Be sure to cite the novels AND Paradise Lost to make

your arguments.