Worldview Guide for Frankenstein

Canon Classics Worldview Guides

by Jake J. McAtee

" Frankenstein , the genesis of the horror genre, began with friends gathered around a campfire telling ghost stories. For a modern generation raised on Goosebumps it’s a little too good to be true." ~From Jake McAtee's guide The Canon Classics Worldview Guides provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most definitive and daunting works of Western Literature. The Worldview Guides focus on the big picture (both the good and the bad) without neglecting the details. Each Worldview Guide is a friendly literary coach—and a treasure map, and a compass, and a key—to help teachers, parents, and students appreciate, critique, and master the classics. Each bite-size Worldview Guide is divided into these 9 Introduction, The World Around, About the Author, What Other Notables Said, Plot Summary & Characters, Worldview Analysis, Quotables, 21 Significant Questions & Answers, and Further Discussion & Review. A free classics test and answer key are also available online.

Genres: Nonfiction, Audiobook

54 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2020

Reviews

[ValeReads Kyriosity · Rating 4 out of 5]

Almost convinces me to read the book...

The author did well with the narration, too.

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

It can be helpful to read some books with a friend, sometimes it is a literal friend and sometimes the friend is a metaphore. This little guide is a friend that can explain the deeper meaning of the book. Frankenstein was written during a time that is quite foreign to me and this little guide helps to understand that time, the person writing the book and why it was written.

[Joshua Lister · Rating 4 out of 5]

This booklet gives helpful historical and philosophical context for Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. An interview from the author’s podcast led me to read E. Michael Jones’s book, Monster’s From the Id. That book proved to be one of the most intriguing books I have ever read. Afterward, I read Shelly’s Frankenstein and I am grateful for the literary journey that podcast episode has inspired.

Although I think the interpretive idea presented in this guide is interesting, I am not fully convinced that Shelly was offering a critique of her husband’s ideas. I think that the monster certainly embodies her husband’s radical ideas, but according to Frankenstein’s monster the envy and wrath comes as a consequence of not being accepted. The monster was originally good natured and gentle. Society corrupted it. At least, according to the monster.

I wonder if Mrs. Shelley (through Frankenstein’s monster) is offering an excuse for her husbands ideas while admitting the real consequences of them. It is mostly God and society’s fault for not accepting her husband and his ideas than it is Percy’s. This would explain the use of Milton’s quote at the beginning of the work, “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mold me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?”

[Josh Simons · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent companion to stoke the thoughts of the reader who just completed Frankenstein and wants to gnaw the bone further.

[Leticia Méndez · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good!

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Little booklet that caught my eye due to just reading Frankenstein. Interesting.

[Isaac · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good.

[Laura Webb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another great guide I read to prep this summer!

[Tyson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful introduction with consideration of Mary’s family life and connection to plot of the story…