TextAnalysis

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Text-Analysis

• Thesis statement Outline
• Being text-and-context-specific,
• Analytical
• Logical and Organized

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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 

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Outline --Sentence Outline

• The descriptions and dialogue of the monster make
  us understand him more.
• The monster is ugly but kind.
• He is eloquent.

• 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 

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

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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 Frankensteins scary appearance and
  everyone could accept him for his good manner and
  everything.

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Andreas

• 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?

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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

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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)

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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.

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1. Text-Specific Revision

• One evidence of the monsters 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)

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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 friendFrankenstein. . .
  .

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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

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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.

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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.