Dracula’s side

While reading Dracula I became really curious as to why Bram Stoker narrated his book from only a few individuals view point.  The book took in a form from either a diary entry or letter coming from Lucy, Mina, Jonathan or Dr. Seward but not from who the title is named after. I, out of all [...]

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Alex Bryce October 20, 2008 Blog Post #6 (sorry for the spelling/grammar errors!) I’ve heard from a couple of kids (both within and without the class) that they weren’t particularly enthused with Dracula. I admit that parts of the story bored me, especially the section with Mina and Lucy up until the introduction of Dr. [...]

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Question about Dracula

Alex Bryce October 20, 2008 Blog Post #5 I have a longer blog post planned for later, once I’ve finished reading the last few chapters of Dracula! However, something was bugging me when I was reading Dracula… I still don’t understand the significance of the dirt boxes that the human characters are hunting for. Does [...]

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A Thought on Skin Shows

Kate Coley I finally have found some time to blog! I know we have been discussing Frankenstein like craaazzzyy, and most of this stuff has been said already, but I really just wanted to get some ideas out there. Here goes… I really wanted to talk about something that was brought up in “Skin Shows” that [...]

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Answering the same question as in “Mirror Images…”

Bailey Meeker In “Mirror Images and Otherness in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” by Dean Franco, Franco questions how Frankenstein can be horrified by his monster only after the monster becomes alive.  Franco’s answer is rather complex, interpreting Frankenstein’s monster as the manifestation of Frankenstein’s Oedipal complex and also interpreting Frankenstein’s monster as a symbol of language. [...]

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Frankenstein Character Map

I thought these might be helpful for students. Here is a character map (click to enlarge): And a timeline of Events (click to enlarge):

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Frankenstein Blog Post

Alex Bryce FSCT 201 9/9/08 Blog Post #1 I apologize about the lateness of this post. I had just finished reading Frankenstein for the first time ever, and I wanted to post my thoughts before they could be influenced by class discussion or blog posts. What fascinated me about Frankenstein was the dehumanization of Doctor [...]

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