You are also free to come up with your own topic, but check with me first. For those of you who want more help in constructing topics, you may choose one from below, or modify it as you wish. Keeping in mind that our knowledge of a character involves an understanding of his or her personal traits, habits, actions, thoughts, feelings, and relations with others, write an essay in which you analyze Victor Frankenstein. OR you might organize your essay around a central characteristic or several characteristics and then, demonstrate how the novel brings out each of these. Another method would be to discuss a development or change in Victor.
Minor characters are often as interesting as major characters.
Keeping these functions of a minor character in mind, write an essay in which you discuss a minor character or characters. You might analyze the character or characters, or discuss how the character or characters add to our understanding of the major character. These often are either appropriate or inappropriate to the characters who are associated with them. Keeping these comments in mind, discuss how physical setting reflects or contrasts with a character or characters. You might keep in mind how some of the characters, especially Victor and the Monster, respond to nature.