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Assignment Instructions: Frankenstein Critical Analysis Evaluation Essay
Note: Please review the source guidelines below very carefully. If you do not choose from the provided sources below, this will cause a grading delay and you will need to resubmit the assignment.
For this assignment, you will write your evaluation essay. You are required to submit only your final draft for this assignment (though we encourage all students to take advantage of the additional feedback a draft can provide). Use the grader’s feedback and the rubric to make revisions to your draft before submitting the final. Your second draft will be graded.
Now that you have completed Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, you are in a good position to consider what critics have written about the novel. You will need a total of two critiques (also known as critical analysis essays) for this assignment. Romantic Circle's Critiques: https://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/msch... https://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/msch... https://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/msch... https://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/msch... https://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/msch... https://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/msch... Professor critique: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/2003/ginn.html Professor critique: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/hether.htm...
Evaluate the critic/author: Who wrote the criticism you read? What credentials does the author have? (If you are using a valid source, you should be able to find these easily; these details are usually just before or at the end of the essay.) Find the thesis of the article: What is the thesis of the critical article you’ve chosen? What point does the author want to make about Frankenstein? Evaluate the thesis: Do you agree with this thesis? Why or why not? We’ve covered many ideas in the study guides. Can you find points within the guides that support your agreement or disagreement with the critical writer(s)? Look for new supporting information rather than revisiting the same ones the critics have chosen. Evaluate the support: Whether you agree or disagree with the thesis, does the critic provide sufficient research from the text and outside references to make a strong case? What does the article have for support from the text or outside sources? In your opinion, what makes these references valid? Do you feel the author uses this support properly? |
The guidelines for this assignment are:
Length: This assignment should be a minimum of 3 typed pages or at least 750 words.
Header: Include a header in the upper left-hand corner of your writing assignment with the following information:
Your first and last name
Course Title (Composition II)
Assignment name (Evaluation Essay, Writing Assignment 4)
Current Date
Format:
MLA-style source documentation and Works Cited
Your last name and page number in the upper-right corner of each page
Double-spacing throughout
Standard font (TimesNewRoman, Calibri)
Title, centered after heading
1” margins on all sides
Save the file using one of the following extensions: .docx, .doc, .rtf, or .txt
Underline your thesis statement in the introductory paragraph.
Reminder: You need at least two critiques in addition to the novel in Works Cited in order to receive the highest score. In other words, you need three sources total in cited in the essay and on the Works Cited page in order to earn the maximum points in the corresponding column on the grading rubric. Failure to meet the source minimum will result in a severe decrease in your grade.
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Frankenstein Critical Analysis Evaluation Essay
Critics
The first critique accessed was by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) a novelist from Scotland
who also engaged in writing poems and plays which made him a staunch historian. He engaged in
many literal works such as The lady of the lake, Rob Roy, Old Mortality and The heart of
Midlothiam which are some of the extension pieces he authored. Because of the gothic fictional
genre which the novel was set Sir Walter Scott became the best-known critic for the novel which
saw his criticism published in the Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine,2 (1818). He is a bit mild in
his criticism and describes it as a fictional romantic work of art that guides the reader to delve
deeper into the supernatural world. For not only the purposes of lack of imagination but rather to
extrapolate a different world the author perceives. Hence, this makes him the best critic of the
novel because of his neutral standpoint and understanding.
The second critique is by John ...