English 4

Dr. Murphy

Frankenstein: Web Exercise

Some points

  • You make work privately or in groups of no more than three (3) persons.
  • Peruse the following sites (1-3) and then address the “List of Tasks.” Or visa versa…
  • Your completed tasks are due on Friday, December 11. Type your answers.

Penetrating the Secrets of Nature

1.

A Frankenstein web page from the National Library of Medicine.

Cinematic Connections

2.

List of most movie versions of Frankenstein, from IMDB

3. The sense of place is strong in Frankenstein and so is this site from the University of Pennsylvania.

List of Tasks

After considering the NIH/National Library of Medicine website, answer the following questions.

  1. What lake is adjacent to Lord Byron’s villa in Switzerland?
  2. What were the names of Mary Shelley’s parents?
  3. What was the chief motivation for Blundell’s creating the first method for blood transfusion?
  4. What method does God use to expel Adam and Eve from Eden?
  5. On which auspicious day does the creature murder Elizabeth?
  6. Paraphrase Victor’s dying exhortation to Robert Walton.
  7. In what year was the first cinematic representation produced?
  8. What is Eugenics?
  9. What is a xenograft?
  10. In 1993, what was sliced into 1000 razor-thin sections? Why?
  11. In 1997, what action (s) did the National Bioethics Advisory Committee recommend to President Clinton?
  12. Paraphrase what Dr Harold Varmus, Director of The National Institute of Health, said about cloning after the NIH exhibit on the phenomenon of Frankenstein concluded.

a. Choose five of your favorite Frankensteinian movie titles from the IMDb

b. What is your favorite cinematictitle (or version) of Frankenstein?

The geography of Frankenstein is particularly interesting. Here are some questions from the University of Pennsylvania’s excellent site.

  1. How many Orkney islands are there?
  2. Where are these islands located?
  3. Why is this important to the novel?
  4. Which saint was Archangel, Russia names after?
  5. True or False: Evian is a spa town?
  6. In which year was Shelley’s History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland published?
  7. In the photo, how many tourists look upon the winter palace of St. Petersburg?
  8. What is the altitude of Mont Blanc?
  9. Charles Diodati was good friends with what famous English poet?
  10. On what river is Oxford, England situated?
  11. How does the secret society of the Illuminati figure into the university at Ingolstadt?
  12. What is a “nipped” ship?

For further Study: Themes: Another winner from theUniversity of Pennsylvania. This one gives a great array of themes form the novel. This site may serve as useful prep for the essay section of your final. Utilize at your discretion.