Monthly Archives: September 2011

  After I finished reading Frankenstein I couldn’t get over how important Walton was to the story.  In fact, after the novel concluded I reasoned that he is the most important character in the novel; completely indispensable and actually in … Continue reading →

  In his article “On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre”, Darko Suvin posits “Science Fiction as the literature of cognitive estrangement.”  By this definition and its subsequent explanation  I believe that Shelley’s Frankenstein falls short of the parameters … Continue reading →