Frankenstein Revisited!

• Pre-Reading:

1. Cloning is when something (organ, animal or human) is duplicated by copying its genetic material and DNA, creating an identical copy of the genetic Donor physically but not psycologically.
2. Because there would be no diferences between humans, and that is what makes us to be and act how we do.
3. One advantage is to help species who are in danger of extinction may survive by cloning them. Another advantage would be that if a cow is cloned, the production of milk would be doubled.
4. The dilema is that the practice of cloning is the same as playing god in some culture, and that same problem is the vicious circle that has this subject, they fall to this very same  issue every time it wants to be approved.
5. It´s true because in any mean, leaving a side that it is a clone, it would be a human being, and all human beings must have the same rights and privileges.

• Post reading:

1.  Warning the people about cloning using the novel of M.S "Frankenstein".
2. To warn people about cloning using the novel of M.S "Frankenstein".
3. To teenagers because they are the next generation, and maybe the clonation would be in practice.
4. - Effects of living with this problem in society. -Risk of deformation.
5. The writer is against cloning as it can be seen in the following sentense: "Nobody argues that clones would spawn "a new race of devils","Victor Frankenstein lived with unimaginable regret, we may yet hope we will not share that experience".
6. Still in progress...

Frankenstein quotes

• Quote: 
• "They are dead; and but one feeling in such a solitude can persuade me to preserve my life. If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow-creatures, then could i live to fulfill it. But such is not my destiny; I must pursue and destroy the being whom I gave existence; then my lot on earth will be fulfilled, and I may die."
• Theme:
•  Death
• Guilt
• Creation
• Explanation: 
• This quote express how the character is feeling, in this case is Victor who regrets and feels guilty of all what have done the monster and although about giving his life, so he wants to destroy it.

The Birthmark, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading Comprehension Answers:

1. He married her because her mark would be his next experiment to make him famous

7. It depends on how much the person cares about how it looks and if that imperfection really bothers him.

10. To be imperfect means as the Oxford English Dictionary says:" imperfect: faulty or incomplete.".

12. I think he didn´t learn anything because his objective from the beginning was to remove that mark.

15. He was disturbed because, as he clearly said in the story:"... this small defect shocks me as being a sign of earthly imperfection". This was unacceptable to him because she was sso beautiful that a small mark was enough to disturb him.