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Text-Analysis

Text-Analysis. Thesis statement & Outline Being text-and-context-specific , Analytical Logical and Organized. Outline. I. An overview of Frankenstein II. The main plot of Frankenstein III. Analyzing the creature A. The creation of the creature B. The appearance of the creature

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Text-Analysis

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  1. Text-Analysis Thesis statement & Outline Being text-and-context-specific, Analytical Logical and Organized

  2. Outline I.An overview of Frankenstein II.The main plot of Frankenstein III.Analyzing the creature A.The creation of the creature B.The appearance of the creature C.The personality of the creature D.The education of the creature

  3. I.An overview of Frankenstein I.The main plot of Frankenstein III.Analyzing the creature A.The creation of the creature B.The appearance of the creature C.The personality of the creature D.The education of the creature The descriptions and dialogue of the monster make us understand him more. The monster is ugly but kind. He is eloquent. Outline --Sentence Outline

  4. IV.The turning point in the story • A.The reason of the creature’s killing • B.The ending where the creature left • V.Conclusion

  5. Thesis on “Frankenstein” paper • Thesis Statement: People tend to believe in what they see; however, If people are all blind like the old man in the family in the woods, no one would see Frankenstein’s scary appearance and everyone could accept him for his good manner and everything.

  6. Andrea’s • Through the descriptions and dialogues, we can get a better understanding of this creature that Frankenstein made. • Another possibility: • The monster is ugly but kind-hearted; he is driven to kill only to make his creator understand him. • How do we go deeper?

  7. 1. Text specific: Example • “Like a newborn baby, he uses all his senses to learn about the world and observes everything around him. Finally he learns how to talk by observing a family in the woods.” • Revision

  8. excerpts from the novel • “A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses. By degrees, I remember, a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes. Darkness then came over me, and troubled me; but hardly had I felt this, when, by opening my eyes, as I now suppose, the light poured in upon me again.” (CHAP 11)

  9. excerpts from the novel • “Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.”

  10. 1. Text-Specific: Revision • One evidence of the monster’s humanness is his learning process. Like a newborn baby, he first learns to use his eyelids to experience light and darkness, and then gradually he distinguishes among the five senses. But as soon as he does that, he can appreciate the beauty of the moon, which he gazes with “wonder” and “pleasure.” • Why? Contemporary views of education and of human nature. (modern Prometheus)

  11. II. Analysis vs. summarizing • The novel begins and ends with four letters that Walton, a captain of a ship, wrote to his sister Margaret about his new friend—Frankenstein. . . .

  12. Organized and Logical • Although the creature has a terrible appearance, he has a heart as pure as a child.When he sees the poor family in the woods, he tries his best to help out in secret. . . . • The outline

  13. Outline • The creation of Romantic hero may not be a “perfect living thing.” • The novel has several frames, through which is gradually revealed a result of human creation: a killing monster which is actually kind and intelligent. • Having an insatiable desire to know more about human creation, Frankenstein ends up creating a monster. • The monster is ugly but kind. • He is eloquent.

  14. Outline (2) • The monster turns to kill because he is alienated from human society and then abandoned by his creator. • The monster maintains his innate kindness.

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