Essay Questions (be sure to address both questions within your paper):
In what ways is theissue of isolation at stake in both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol?How might those 2 texts be connected in relation to the theme of isolation, and what is the significance of that connection?
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol are the only 2 sources that can and must be used for this paper.You will need to use an effective amount of direct quotations from those 2 texts in order to support the claims that you make in your paper, and they must be cited and documented in correct MLA format.Be sure to be consistent withyour use of direct quotations.Any claim that you make about a text needs to be supported with a direct quotation from that text.However, like all papers in this course, this writing projectmustbe primarily based on your own opinions, ideas, and arguments.And related to that, I don’t want you just regurgitating the issues that we discussed in class.I welcome you to build on the issuesthat we covered, but be sure that you go far beyond what we discussed in class in terms of thisessay and what you discuss in your paper.Please also keep in mind the context and purpose of this assignment.It is not a personal essay, and it is not a critical response paper.That impliesthat the personal pronoun ‘I’ will not be used in this essay , as this is more of an academicassignment.Also, be sure to avoid the use of contractions, and use language and academicconventions appropriate for a formal essay.Again, this paper should be based on your ownopinions, ideas, and arguments, but those fundamental aspects should be effectively presentedwithin an academic essay.As has been discussed in class , don’t just restate the essay topic as your central argument/thesis.Your central argument/thesis needs to go beyond the essay topic, and you must craft a more specific approach and central argument/thesis within those more broadessay questions.It ’s not just about making connections between the texts within the scope of an answer to the essay questions—although that approach would at least be a good place to startwhen attempting togenerate a more specific paper topic for this assignment—but it is also aboutwhat you dowiththose connections in relation to theirsignificance, and how you discussthemwithina morespecificargument that addresses the essay questions.So be mindfulof theseissues as you prepare for and execute this assignment.
