What are we learning today?
• How Mary Shelley creates a gloomy
atmosphere in Chapter 5
• How the character of Victor is presented
• How to use PEE to write a paragraph on
the character of Victor.
What period was Frankenstein
written in?
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2.
3.
4.
Elizabethan
Victorian
Romantic
Enlightenment
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Elizabethan
Victorian
Romantic
Enlightenment
What is a main feature of the gothic
novel?
1. Romance
2. Dark and gloomy
atmosphere
3. Hatred
4. Revenge
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What technique is used throughout
the novel?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Personification
Metaphors
Pathetic fallacy
Alliteration
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Metaphors
Pathetic f...
Alliteration
If you didn’t have an imagination,
what were you considered to be?
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2.
3.
4.
Gothic
Boring
Crazy
Not human
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Gothic
Boring
Crazy
Not human
Task 1
While you are watching the short sequence
where Frankenstein is brought alive, make
a note of how the following are used :
- The emotions of Victor (How they change)
- The setting
- The atmosphere and mood created
Looking at
what all his
hard work
has
created –
quite proud
of himself
Sees no
immorality
in what he
is doing at
this point
Extremely
derogatory to
the creature
he has spent
so much time
on –showing
what he is like
as a person.
Pathetic fallacy –
Straight away
setting dark
atmosphere
It was on a dreary night of
November that I beheld the
accomplishment of my toils. With
an anxiety that almost amounted to We can see just
how important
agony, I collected the instruments
this is to Victor
of life around me, that I might
that it is effecting
him physically
infuse a spark of being into the
lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It
Pathetic fallacy –
was already one in the morning;
giving the idea that
the rain pattered dismally against something bad is
going to happen in
the panes, and my candle was
the future
nearly burnt out, when, by the
glimmer of the half-extinguished
light, I saw the dull yellow eye of First references to the
creature alive and
the creature open; it breathed hard,
they are very
and a convulsive motion agitated negative
its limbs.
Opening sequence
POINT
As soon as Chapter
5 begins there
is a negative
atmosphere
created
Victor Frankenstein
appears to be
quite proud of
what he has
created
We get the
impression that
Frankenstein
wasn’t the
perfect creation
Victor would
have wanted
EVIDENCE
EXPLAIN
Pathetic fallacy is used from
the very first line here.
Shelley gives a dismal,
bleak atmosphere from
the outset; giving the
reader the idea that
something negative is going
to happen in the future.
Now use PEE to write an extended piece
of writing on the opening sequence.
POINT
As soon as Chapter 5 begins, there is a
negative atmosphere created. This is EVIDENCE
shown when Shelley writes “It was on a
dreary night of November” Pathetic fallacy
is used from the very first line here.
Shelley gives a dismal bleak atmosphere
from the outset, giving the reader the idea
that something negative is going to
happen in the future.
EXPLAIN
Does your example include :
-
Detail
A variety of punctuation
Correct spellings
Clear use of PEE
Clear understanding and analysis?