Creation of Frankenstein and applying 'The Uncanny'

Creation of Frankenstein and applying 'The Uncanny'

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will build on and apply our knowledge of 'The Uncanny' from the previous lesson. Then, we will look at Mary Shelley and her inspiration for her famous novel 'Frankenstein' and read a section from the story to apply our knowledge of 'The Uncanny'. Then, we will end on a quiz exploring what you have learned.

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5 Questions

Q1.
Who was Sigmund Freud?
He studied how people dream.
He was a German theorist who studied how anatomy worked.
Correct answer: Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist (studied the brain) and the founder of psychoanalysis.
Q2.
What is psychoanalysis?
The belief that all people have repressed memories which they can only share through hypnosis.
Correct answer: The belief that all people possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories.
The belief that all people share similar thought patterns and unconscious destires.
Q3.
What does Freud list that is associated with the Uncanny?
Correct answer: death, dead bodies, zombies, spirits, ghosts, doppelgangers and magic
science, knowledge, reason and acquisition of new knowledge
violence, murder, blood and gore
Q4.
How can the Uncanny best be defined?
Correct answer: that which is familiar to us in spite of the dread it evokes
that which we cannot comprehend nor understand
things that make us terrified
Q5.
How does the Gothic genre link to the Uncanny?
Gothic novels often deal with ghosts and the supernatural
Correct answer: They are full of such uncanny effects – simultaneously frightening, unfamiliar and yet also strangely familiar.
They often deal with horror.

5 Questions

Q1.
What does grotesque mean?
things that are beautiful yet ugly
things that are supernatural
Correct answer: things that are very strange and ugly in an unnatural way
Q2.
Who wrote Frankenstein?
Bram Stoker
Correct answer: Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Q3.
What is Frankenstein the novel also known as?
Correct answer: The Modern Prometheus
The Monster
Q4.
Which of the following is a prominent idea in Frankenstein?
rehabilitation
resurgence
Correct answer: resurrection
Q5.
Who is Frankenstein?
the author
Correct answer: the creator of the monster
the monster

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UnitEnglish / Gothic Literature

English