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THEMES in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein • Parenting I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn, That those to whom evil is done, Do evil in return. W.H. Auden Essential Question: What is most influential, nature or nurture?. • Scientific Achievement
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THEMES in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein • Parenting I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn, That those to whom evil is done, Do evil in return. W.H. Auden Essential Question: What is most influential, nature or nurture?
•Scientific Achievement The necessity of measuring the capabilities of applied science by their true benefits to humanity. Essential Question: Because we can, should we?
• Ambition A cautionary tale about obsession with fame. Essential question: Is personal satisfaction in success a necessary component of motivation, or is altruism a sufficient motivator?
• Nature’s Laws Break nature’s laws and suffer. Align with nature and be healed. Essential Question: Is an inherent morality encoded in the natural order of the world?