Blog writing for Feb 14th

We discussed a lot of elements of Mary Shelley's novel: reading and the efficacy of text, Natural Philosophy, the tricky language of the Preface, landscape--shaping writing and life-creating as well as the sublime, reproduction, the Victor-Monster dialectic, the Victor-Walton dialectic, and more.

Now that we've had these good classroom discussions, I want you to spend some time synthesizing and processing what you take away from our reading, thinking, discussing in terms of how to explain Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in terms of a cautionary tale regarding techno-science. What do you think the novel itself really has to say about techno-science? Please link your assessment to specific moments in the text--you should use some actual quotes--and explain your interpretation thought process carefully and concisely.

350-450 words. Please post before class on Valentine's Day, February 14th.