Name _________________________________ Date _____________ Class Period _______

British Literature – Ms. Hall

Frankenstein
Anticipation Guide
An Anticipation Guide is a set of questions answered before reading to introduce you to the conflicts and
themes you will confront in your reading. In the pre-reading column, agree or disagree with the following
statements based on your beliefs and opinions. There are no right or wrong answers here—this serves to
stimulate your thinking as you begin reading the work. After reading the novel/play, you will determine if the work
itself supports or refutes the statements below. You will use textual evidence (page #’s) to prove this.

Pre- Post-
reading Reading Page #’s
You Statements for Consideration The Work for Textual
Evidence
Agree or Supports or
Disagree Refutes

The key to all emotional healing can be found in nature.

Nature is filled with harsh cruelties.

A person’s priorities should place family before work.

Enjoying life is more important than pursuing fame, glory, and
knowledge.
Those born with social and financial advantages have a
responsibility for those who are not.
Ignorance is bliss.
The pursuit of knowledge is a volatile quest.
Someone’s ego (over-inflated sense of self-worth or superiority)
will cause a tragic fall.
Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults.

Most people are basically cruel.

Society makes a person whatever he becomes.

The “disenfranchised man,” who finds himself unable to live
within society for whatever reason, is someone for whom we
should feel sympathy or reverence.
Rejection and mistreatment can manifest themselves in a person
becoming rage-filled.
If a person or an animal is treated with cruelty, he will respond to
others in the same way.
Murder is a crime and a sin—and never can be justified.
Those people we deem “monsters” in today’s society are merely
misunderstood.
The greatest burden a person can carry is living with the
knowledge of his sins/crimes and that they were preventable.