Background Information

Ensuring you have a solid understanding of the background knowledge relating to Frankenstein is paramount in ensuring you can provide accurate and insightful text analyses. It is important to address and incorporate into your essay the author’s history, as well as social, historical, and cultural contexts. If you are able to weave this knowledge into your essay in order to justify why Shelley uses certain devices or created certain storylines, the depth of your analysis will increase exponentially!