Web module on Shelley’s Frankenstein
September 26, 2019
This assignment requires you and a partner to carefully read and critique four websites related to Frankenstein, and then answer the following questions (below). It should take about an hour to complete.
Suggestion: bookmark this assignment so you can return to the writing prompts more easily.
Directions:
1. Open your email client (Gmail, CCA webmail)
2. Copy the questions below into an email addressed to me: mdejesus@cca.edu
3. Carefully read through each site, discuss, then write a detailed response to corresponding questions. Type up your responses and email to me by 7pm.
Be sure your response indicates your name and you partner’s name.
Questions:
Website 1. What does this site tell us about how the study of monsters evolved through the ages? How does the information in this site complement our understanding of Shelley’s goals in Frankenstein?
Website 2. Read the sections entitled “Transformation of a Monster”and “Boundary Crossing/ 1931,” then address the following: how has Shelley’s “creature” evolved in the popular imagination? Why does it remain a powerful cultural icon? What does this site say about its Hollywood transformation?
Website 3. Carefully read through the 4 sections of this website then answer whether or not we should grow GM foods, and why.
Website 4. Describe the ethical issues explored in this article. How do these contemporary realities relate to Frankenstein?
Do you have any comments for me about this web-based module?
Thanks!
Website 1:
NY Academy of Medicine Historical Collections: “A Telling of Wonders: Teratology in Western Medicine through 1800”
Read the following sections carefully:
Collecting Curiosities: The Rise of the Medical Museum
Popular Culture and Freakshows
The 18th Century: Monsters as a Battleground for Scientific and Philosphical Debates
A New Era: The Birth of a Modern Definition of Teratology in the Early 19th Century
*Question: What does this site tell us about how the study of monsters evolved through the ages? How does the information on this site complement our understanding of Shelley’s goals in Frankenstein?
Website 2
2. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
*Question: Read the sections entitled “Transformation of a Monster”and “Boundary Crossing/ 1931″ then address the following: how has Shelley’s “creature” evolved in the popular imagination? Why does it remain a powerful cultural icon? What does this site say about its Hollywood transformation?
Website 3
3.Harvest of Fear: Exploring the Fight over Genetically Modified Foods
*Question: Carefully read through the 4 sections of this website then answer whether or not we should grow GM foods, and why.