1. FRANKENSTEIN Katie Nelson and Maria Welser

2. MARY SHELLEY  Born to two famous writers in 1797 (William Godwin and Mary Wollstencraft)  Mother passed away when she was 11 days old  Married Percy Shelley (a poet)  First child (girl) died and second child (boy) lived in 1816

3. SCIENCE OF THE TIME  Galvanism- visuals  Spontaneous generation  “resurrectioners”  Shelley on post industrialism and Darwinism  What was a scientist? Natural philosopher

4. CONNECTIONS TO MODERN TECHNOLOGY  Cloning  Euthanasia  Animal organs used for human transplants  Abortion  Stem cell research

5. CREATION OF THE NOVEL  Summer spent in Geneva 1816 where she had the dream and began writing (coldest summer on record)  1818 Frankenstein; The Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in three volumes  1831 revision for production in Bentley’s Standard Novels, in which she includes an introduction on her inspiration

6. ADJECTIVES OF THE CREATURE  Yellowish, watery eyes  Lustrous, black hair  Yellow skin  Showing the outline of veins and muscles  White teeth  Black lips  8 feet tall  “miserable monster”  “wretch”  “demon”  “vile insect”  “fiend”  “creature”  “superhuman”  Abhorred  “treacherous”  “unearthly ugliness”

7. EVOLUTION OF THE MONSTER: FILM  1931- Boris Karloff “green monster”  1957- (AIP) teenage Frankenstein  1958- nuclear power/ clone  1958- Frankensteins’ daughter  1973- Blackenstein  1985- Bride adaptation  1987- Monster Squad  1994- Robert Di Niro- divered very heavily  2004- Van Helsing  2005- Frankenstein vs. The Creature of Blood Cove  2006- Perfect Woman  2006- Subject Two  2012- Hotel Transylvania  2014- “I, Frankenstein”

8. EVOLUTION OF THE NOVEL: STAGED  1823- Presumption  1887- Frankensteim, The Vampire’s Victim  1981- Broadway adaptation played for one performance  2007- Young Frankenstein  2011- Frankenstein adapted by the Royal National Theatre

9. ICONIC STILL TODAY  Responsibility Innocence vs guilt (creature aware of harm) Abandonment (judgemental)  Dangers of knowledge (whats the ending point?)  Sublime nature  Monstrosity (De Lacey house)

10. TIMELINE OF NOVEL  Victor loses his mother and leaves for Ingolstadt at the age of 17  Several years pass as he learns and creates the Creature (9 months of creation)  The Creature observes the De Laceys for about a year  Two years after that the Creature finds Victor and confesses Williams murder and asks for a female companion  Another few years pass and Victor stops the production of the female  Victor is accused of Henry’s murder and is in jail for two months, marrying Elizabeth after  He searches for the Creature for five months until reaching Walton’s ship