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 * TOPIC: Style Choices. **

For this topic, students should discuss the **style choices** Mary Shelley makes in the novel. These could include, but are not limited to, discussion over the following elements:


 * 1) The choice of an epistolary novel
 * 2) The frame story
 * 3) Multiple geographic settings
 * 4) Gothicism
 * 5) The Doppelganger effect
 * 6) Feminism
 * 7) Romanticism
 * 8) Word Choice
 * 9) Syntax (sentence structure)

Students should also read the critical essay "Frankenstein's Fallen Angel" by Joyce Carol Oates for this discussion as well as Frankenstein's Moonby Donald Olson. And remember that a discussion means that you post ideas, but that you also respond to the ideas of others.