Frankenstein — Coleman’s Notes® Student Guide Mary Shelley | CN-SG020

A comprehensive and exam-focused guide to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, designed primarily for GCSE and A Level students.

Explore the complete novel through detailed plot and chapter analysis before examining Shelley’s characters, themes, symbols, narrative structure, Gothic and Romantic influences, historical context and key ideas.

INCLUDED

✓ Complete plot and chapter analysis

✓ The 1818 and 1831 editions

✓ Detailed character studies

✓ Victor Frankenstein and the Creature

✓ Robert Walton and the frame narrative

✓ Elizabeth, Clerval and the Frankenstein family

✓ The De Lacey family

✓ Character relationships and development

✓ Ambition and dangerous knowledge

✓ Creation and responsibility

✓ Isolation and loneliness

✓ Nature versus nurture

✓ Prejudice and identity

✓ Revenge and obsession

✓ Science and ethical responsibility

✓ Nature and the sublime

✓ Gothic and Romantic influences

✓ Narrative structure and multiple narrators

✓ Language, form and structure

✓ Symbols and motifs

✓ Key quotations explained

✓ Historical, scientific and literary context

✓ Alternative interpretations

✓ GCSE and A Level exam guidance

✓ Five detailed essay plans

✓ Five sample examination answers

✓ Practice examination questions

✓ 25 Exam & Revision Questions

✓ Quick Revision Checklist

✓ Quick Recall

The guide helps students move from knowing the story to understanding how Shelley constructs it and what she asks readers to consider about ambition, responsibility, humanity and creation.

CLASSIC LITERATURE COLLECTION — £39.95

Frankenstein is also available as part of the six-guide Coleman’s Notes® Classic Literature Collection:

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde • An Inspector Calls • Animal Farm • Lord of the Flies • Frankenstein • Jane Eyre

Individual Frankenstein Guide — £9.95

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