Your draft Essay #2 is due on Monday, October 24th. Please bring three copies to class with you; I will assign peer review groups in class on Monday (tell you who to give your essay to).
By Monday, October 24th: Read Frankenstein up to Chapter 8 (which you should be up to by Friday, anyway).
By Wednesday, October 26th: Read Frankenstein up to Chapter 16.
For your blog response, due by NEXT WEDNESDAY (Oct. 29th), please consider some of the following questions:
1. Discuss Dr. Frankenstein’s obsession with creating another being as it relates to contemporary issues of science and technology today. What parallels seem to exist between today’s reality and this fictional story? What are the parallel ethical issues? Provide examples and quotes.
2. In what ways does the monster exemplify or seem to describe the contemporary idea of the cyborg? Is the monster an early literary version of the cyborg? Why or why not? Provide examples and quotes.
For Friday, October 31st: please have the rest of Frankenstein read; also, have your comments ready to hand back to your peers.
Monday, November 3rd: NO CLASS; Final ESSAY # 2 papers due IN CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, November 5th!
