The Frankenstein Application Essay

Literary works like Frankenstein explore the "human condition" or experiences that humans encounter.

The study guides for Frankenstein offer several "Real Life Considerations" meant to help you critically

analyze the applications of the work's themes in today's world. Now, you will choose one of these topics

and explore it using secondary resources to learn more about the novel and its relevant social topics. You

might find information about social issues in familiar sources such as magazines, newspapers, or social

science journals. Make sure your sources are credible - you do not want a random website or an

encyclopedic website such as Wikipedia.2 Your sources will preferably be scholarly ones. Here are some

ideas of places where you might find appropriate sources for this assignment:

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/ (note that this is different from regular Google)
Microsoft Academic Search: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
Cornell University's arXiv (open access sources in math, biology, physics, and other fields):

http://arxiv.org/

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