Let's+get+critical

Let's get critical!
This is the landing page for the research you are about to begin.

This standard requires you to source critical writings about the text we are studying, read, understand and glean ideas from them THEN apply what you have gleaned to your understanding and interpretation of the text.

This sounds more daunting and complicated that it actually is. In fact it is simple. We are going to explore a number of theories in class then you will do some extended reading around how others have applied these theories to the text.

Once you have done this you will have formed some ideas/judgements about what these people have written. Do you agree with how they view the text using this theory? Do you not? Can you see how that read it that way? Can you not? Can you see it but believe there is a better way to see/view/interpret it?

This is the sort of process you will go through and the type of internal dialogue you will have.

The theories -
Here are some readings on the theories as a base point. Have a read, make some notes and get your head around the fundamentals of the theory.

[|Marxism in one page] [|Karl Marx for beginners]
 * __Marxism __**

**__Freud__** [|Freud and the monster] [|A critical study from a Freudian perspective]

[|Creation Anxiety in Frankenstein]
 * __Creation Theory __**

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Others **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Deconstructing Frankenstein] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Reading between the lines] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Thesis statements - how to get started] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Dangerous knowledge] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Parental absence and identity construction] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|The monster speaks] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Romantic Psyche and Pyschoanalysis] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Morality without God]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Parent-Child tensions in Frankenstein]
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parental Roles/Responsibilites __**

__Feminist readings of Frankenstein__ **
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Frankenstein, feminism and literary theory]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Getting started**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The hardest bit, where to begin.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Have a read of the information and suggestions [|on this link]. It steps you through where and how to start your critical look at Frankenstein, or any text for that matter.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Year 13 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Back to the Beginning