Mary Shelley’s rich, layered writing and her novel about fragmentation, dissolution, and reconstruction naturally lend itself to this assignment which focuses on the in depth analysis of one “Vital Passage” from the novel and this passage’s relation to the work as a whole.
This assignment can be used as the final assessment for a Frankenstein unit or as a take-home complement to an exam. The assignment and peer feedback sheets are detailed, breaking down the assignments to help students think