The first chapter of the book How to Read Literature like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster discusses the importance of recognizing the quest in every story. What comes to mind when reading the word quest would be a stereotypical medieval setting. This medieval setting would consist of five things, a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and a deeper and more meaningful reason to go which is usually not clearly stated. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley meets all of the requirements of a “quest”, the quester being Victor Frankenstein. The place to go in the quest would be more of the pursuit of greater knowledge while the stated reason would be personal satisfaction gained by the protagonist in reaching the desired knowledge. The challenges for Victor Frankenstein would be the loss of his loved ones at the hands of the monster that he created, the deeper reason after reaching the destination is that the thirst for knowledge can be destructive.
Chapter six of How to Read Literature like a Professor revolves around the idea that many pieces of literature are related to the Bible. The relationship to the Bible is not left to classic …show more content…
Weather in particular plays a huge role wherever it is placed. A single sort of weather can such as rain can symbolize a variety of things. Foster pays a lot of attention to rain as it has many factors that affect the way in which it can be interpreted by the reader, it comes down clean and can wash away many things, yet at the same time it creates mud and floods. Victor Frankenstein seemed to be attracted to the rain in the early chapters, he mentions that he had stayed behind in a storm to watch it develop and progress. Unlike most cases the rain did not mean anything sinister. Snow seemed to bring with it more grief with it than any other weather, Victor had been sick throughout a winter and began to get well during the spring with sunshine and
Chapter six of How to Read Literature like a Professor revolves around the idea that many pieces of literature are related to the Bible. The relationship to the Bible is not left to classic …show more content…
Weather in particular plays a huge role wherever it is placed. A single sort of weather can such as rain can symbolize a variety of things. Foster pays a lot of attention to rain as it has many factors that affect the way in which it can be interpreted by the reader, it comes down clean and can wash away many things, yet at the same time it creates mud and floods. Victor Frankenstein seemed to be attracted to the rain in the early chapters, he mentions that he had stayed behind in a storm to watch it develop and progress. Unlike most cases the rain did not mean anything sinister. Snow seemed to bring with it more grief with it than any other weather, Victor had been sick throughout a winter and began to get well during the spring with sunshine and