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Frankstein critical analysis evaluation
For this assignment you will write your evaluation essay. You are required to submit only your Hnal 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 Hnal.
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.
First, use the selection of links below to locate a critical analysis essay written about the 1818 version of
Mary Shelley’s novel. You may focus most of your attention on this Hrst critique.
Choose from among these sources:
ipl2 Literary Criticism collection: (If you use this site, you must choose from the Hrst seven
critiques listed as the Hnal two are not scholarly. Also note that the link to Alicia Renfroe’s work is
unavailable. Please choose another option.) http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=fra-63
Professor Sherry Ginn’s critique: http://www.clas.u^.edu/ipsa/2003/ginn.html
Professor Naomi Hetherington’s critique: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/hether.html
The questions in the study guides should have helped you evaluate this criticism in your head. Now it’s time
to write it down!
Your evaluation may go more smoothly if you approach the guiding questions in this order:
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 Hnd 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?