Essay 2: Critical Analysis
Format: 5 – 6 Pages, typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins (MLA)
Introduction:
All essays begin with a question or prompt to guide your written response. In prior English courses and
through the first half of this semester, you have been provided with the question or prompt. For this
essay, in order to develop your critical thinking skills, you will need to develop your own question for
response. This question must be clear and argumentative.
Assignment: Develop your own argumentative question regarding Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. And
respond to it in the form of a clear, concise thesis statement. Your essay should then utilize sound
reasoning and textual evidence to support your thesis statement.
Essay Requirements
Identify Shelley’s Purpose
Identify and explain themes expressed in Shelley’s novel
Utilize literary elements and devices
Primary textual evidence
At least two secondary sources – one of which can be from our text that was assigned in class. And one other that you find through your own research
Incorporate two, no more – no less, literary theories that we have discussed in class
Introduce a counterargument to your thesis and refute it
MLA formatted citations and works cited page
While these are the requirements, you as the writer will need to make some decisions on how you will
incorporate these requirements in your essay.
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