1. Comparing two novels
Attwood uses Offred as her narrator in order to present how the abuse of power by the hierarchy depends upon the repression of most of the population, therefore creating a dystopian novel. Attwood presents a woman whom the reader can empathise with, thereby creating an engaging narrative. Shelley, on the other hand, uses multiple narrators, which interlink and blur together, in order to create an uncertainty for her reader, and enforce the Gothic form of her novel. By using three different narrators, Shelley provides distance between her tale and the reader.

2. Comparing Themes What is a theme?
How can you compare themes and ideas?
What themes are there in Beloved and Dracula?
What useful comparisons can we make?

3. What is a theme?
an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
"love and honour are the pivotal themes of the Hornblower books"

4. Read the texts you have in front of you
What themes do they explore?

5. Stand up if you have the following themes in your text:
Conflict
Growing up
Love

6. What is interesting is HOW the writers have made their texts
What is interesting is HOW the writers have made their texts. Stay standing up if you have:
Significant imagery
First person narrator
Humour
Highly descriptive
Action-packed
Dialogue heavy
Distinctive use of grammar/syntax
Dramatic tension
Reflective
Clear narrative voice
Colloquial voice

7. Has anyone else got a text that be described in the same way
Has anyone else got a text that be described in the same way? Use examples from your text when you discuss. Consider the effect.

8. What genre/form is your text?

9. What themes are explored in Dracula and Beloved?

10. The Dehumanisation of slaves The Supernatural Naming
Religion
The Dehumanisation of slaves
The Supernatural
Naming
Science and Modernity
Community and Family
Immigration
Law and Civilisation
The Burden of the Past
The New Woman
Madness
The mother figure
Sexuality
Use the notes on themes to help you
Are there any connections? How are they explored? What are the differences/similarities?
Themes
Themes in common
Why?
How are they explored differently?
Example/quotes. Page numbers
Beloved
Dracula

11. Take a connecting theme from the two novels and write a page comparing the different ways they are conveyed in the two novels. Consider context in your answer