Your mission is to come up with a creative title for Chapters 18-20.
Write the title out in quotations
Below the title, write out a justification for your choice -- be sure to pull from those chapters specifically in order to support your title completely.
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Shannon Temlak
“Heading in New Directions”
I believe that “Heading in New Directions” is a title that accurately reflects the events within chapters 18-20. In chapter 18, Frankenstein’s life changes in a few ways and he heads out on multiple new paths. His health is described as changing for the better and he is much happier. Frankenstein also makes the decision to marry Elizabeth, a life event that will arguably allow Frankenstein to begin a new life through marriage. He realizes that he must take a journey abroad to create a female monster before he can finally be at peace, thus Frankenstein has a new intellectual task on his hands (a new direction). Frankenstein resolved, “I must perform my engagement, and let the monster depart with his mate, before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expected peace”(Shelley 110). Marriage will allow Frankenstein to forget the past and start anew. Frankenstein is not the only character who sets out on “new directions.” Henry Cleveral is finally away from his father’s grasp and is thus free to study whatever he pleases for the first time. In chapter 19, Clerval continues studying. Frankenstein, meanwhile, is occupied with relatively new task of pleasing the monster. He leaves Clerval to continue his labors, showing initial commitment to the task. He grows distressed and upset, a degrade from his prior emotions of content and happiness. Frankenstein and Clerval both head in “new directions” in a literal way by traveling to and spending time in numerous locations, including in London, Oxford, and Matford. In chapter 20, Frankenstein heads in an emotional new direction when he decides to not pursue granting his creature’s desire to have a female partner. Instead of abiding by a request that he believes to have consequensive results, Frankenstein starts out on a new direction by disobeying his own creature. He even disposes of his tools by putting them in a basket: “I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants; and I accordingly put them into a basket” (Shelley 124). This symbolizes Frankenstein starting anew because he does not desire to take his tools with him; he would rather forget the past. His journey by sea also leads Frankenstein in a new geographic direction, for it gives him the opportunity to have a new experience by taking him to Ireland.
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The title I selected was inspired by the TV show, “Glee”. New Directions is the name of a high school’s Glee Club in the show. The Glee Club members are often made fun of other students for participating in an activity that has been deemed “socially looked down upon”. The students, however, are depicted as determined individuals, for they continue to do what they love instead of listening to outside influences. The idea of people doing what they believe to be the correct thing to do is also correlated in “Frankenstein”. Despite being subjugated to the constant threats of the monster, Frankenstein shows his determination to follow his instinct by not creating another monster. Just like the Glee kids don’t allow themselves to be pressured by the other students, Frankenstein does not allow himself to be pressured by the monster.)
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Shannon Temlak
“Heading in New Directions”
I believe that “Heading in New Directions” is a title that accurately reflects the events within chapters 18-20. In chapter 18, Frankenstein’s life changes in a few ways and he heads out on multiple new paths. His health is described as changing for the better and he is much happier. Frankenstein also makes the decision to marry Elizabeth, a life event that will arguably allow Frankenstein to begin a new life through marriage. He realizes that he must take a journey abroad to create a female monster before he can finally be at peace, thus Frankenstein has a new intellectual task on his hands (a new direction). Frankenstein resolved, “I must perform my engagement, and let the monster depart with his mate, before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expected peace”(Shelley 110). Marriage will allow Frankenstein to forget the past and start anew. Frankenstein is not the only character who sets out on “new directions.” Henry Cleveral is finally away from his father’s grasp and is thus free to study whatever he pleases for the first time. In chapter 19, Clerval continues studying. Frankenstein, meanwhile, is occupied with relatively new task of pleasing the monster. He leaves Clerval to continue his labors, showing initial commitment to the task. He grows distressed and upset, a degrade from his prior emotions of content and happiness. Frankenstein and Clerval both head in “new directions” in a literal way by traveling to and spending time in numerous locations, including in London, Oxford, and Matford. In chapter 20, Frankenstein heads in an emotional new direction when he decides to not pursue granting his creature’s desire to have a female partner. Instead of abiding by a request that he believes to have consequensive results, Frankenstein starts out on a new direction by disobeying his own creature. He even disposes of his tools by putting them in a basket: “I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants; and I accordingly put them into a basket” (Shelley 124). This symbolizes Frankenstein starting anew because he does not desire to take his tools with him; he would rather forget the past. His journey by sea also leads Frankenstein in a new geographic direction, for it gives him the opportunity to have a new experience by taking him to Ireland.
:)
The title I selected was inspired by the TV show, “Glee”. New Directions is the name of a high school’s Glee Club in the show. The Glee Club members are often made fun of other students for participating in an activity that has been deemed “socially looked down upon”. The students, however, are depicted as determined individuals, for they continue to do what they love instead of listening to outside influences. The idea of people doing what they believe to be the correct thing to do is also correlated in “Frankenstein”. Despite being subjugated to the constant threats of the monster, Frankenstein shows his determination to follow his instinct by not creating another monster. Just like the Glee kids don’t allow themselves to be pressured by the other students, Frankenstein does not allow himself to be pressured by the monster.)
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