We learned about thesis statements and topic sentences. The last sentence of an introduction must be a thesis statement(Topic+Controlling Idea). Then we learned the structure of the essay. The essay consists of an introduction, body paragraphs(2-3 paragraphs), and a conclusion.

The introduction needs a hook, a hook is something to grab the reader's interest and is relevant to the essay's topic.

Body paragraphs need us to write evidence to support our thesis statement. This is where our essays develop. The first sentence of each body paragraph should clearly support some parts of the thesis statement.

The first sentence in a conclusion is normally a restatement of the thesis. We are not allowed to add any new information in a conclusion but just remind the reader of our take on the topic and why is it important.

There are a few types of common errors in academic writing. Over-generalization, conversational language, no references, poor logic, grammar errors, and more.

Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein.

Frankenstein is a stage adaptation by Nick Dear of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Its world premiere was at the Royal National Theatre on 5 February 2011, where it officially opened on 22 February. This production was directed by Danny Boyle^[1] with a cast including Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, with the two lead actors alternating the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. Frankenstein ended its run on 2 May 2011.

Plot

Victor Frankenstein creates a monster from human corpses. Once the Creature is brought to life, however, Victor is appalled by his creation's deformed appearance and flees in terror. The Creature wanders through the streets of Ingolstadt, lost and confused. Meanwhile, Gretel, a prostitute, is being assaulted in an alleyway and calls for help. The Creature frightens off her attacker, but Gretel recoils from her saviour, and a mob of villagers chase the Creature away. The next morning, the Creature sees the dawn for the first time and finds Victor's journal. He is then attacked by two beggars when he tries to take their food.

The Creature hides in an old cottage which is inhabited by a married couple, Felix and Agatha, and Felix's elderly, blind father, De Lacey. The Creature comes to care for them and brings them food in secret. De Lacey finds and befriends the Creature and, over the course of a year, teaches him to speak, read and write. The Creature reads Victor's journal and learns about his creator. De Lacey also teaches the Creature about love, and the Creature dreams of having a female partner. One day, Felix and Agatha come home and find the Creature; much as the Creature had feared, they are repulsed by him and drive him out. Enraged, the Creature sets fire to the cottage, killing the entire family. He swears revenge on Victor for bringing him into a world that hates him.

By Lake Geneva, Elizabeth Lavenz, Victor's fiancée, is playing hide and seek with William, Victor's younger brother, and her maids. They all leave William blindfolded while they go off to hide. The Creature tries to befriend William, and tells him he is looking for a man called Frankenstein. William says that's his surname and Victor is his brother. William sees the Creature's face and tries to run, but the Creature catches him and carries him off. That night Victor and his father, Monsieur Frankenstein, find William's dead body, with pages from Victor's journal. Victor realizes that the Creature killed his brother, and resolves to destroy him.

Victor tracks the Creature to the Alps and confronts him. The Creature asks Victor to create a female mate for him, promising in return to leave humanity alone; the Creature also threatens to destroy Victor's life if he refuses. Left with little choice and intrigued by the challenge, Victor agrees. He moves to Scotland and, in a matter of months, creates a "bride" for the Creature. When the Creature comes to claim her, however, Victor refuses to give her to him, aghast at the possibility of their creating a race of monsters. He destroys the female and the Creature disappears into the night, swearing revenge.

Victor returns to Geneva and marries Elizabeth. On their wedding night, he confesses what he has done, and promises that he will put an end to the situation that night. He leaves the room intent on destroying the Creature, but the Creature appears in their bridal suite and rapes and murders Elizabeth. Victor bursts into the room with a gun, but can't bring himself to shoot, and the Creature escapes. Victor attempts to bring Elizabeth back to life, but his father stops him, ordering him to be taken away.

Victor pursues the Creature to the Arctic Circle, where he collapses, frostbitten and exhausted. The Creature comes to see what has happened to Victor and, thinking he has died, begs his forgiveness. He gives Victor seal meat and pours wine into his mouth to revive him, and tells his creator he loves him. Victor admits he does not know how to love, and insists in continuing his hate-driven pursuit of the Creature. Both resigned to their fate, the Creature leads Victor on into the fog.

The creature doesn’t know how to speak human language. In the beginning, he keeps making non-human sounds. Instead of walking he crawls in the first place, slowly he learns how to stand then he knows how to walk. He was abandoned by the scientist Victor who created him when he saw his horrible look. Victor covered him with a cloth because of his scary appearance. He was always beaten by the people he met on his journey. He’s scolded by people, although he helped the lady to scare away the old man who choked her neck. When he met the blind old man he learned how to read and speak. But he was afraid when the old man tried to touch him because he knew people were scared of his looks. He learns things fast and knows how to imitate. And when he trusts the old man that Agatha and Felix will not be scared of him, he learns how to trust like a living creature. But when Agatha and Felix chased him away and cursed at him. He begins to understand what is hate and slowly he knows revenge. It enlightened me to think that no creature is born evil or good. We learn how to be human through the journey. The crucial things to decide what kind of people we will become are those people we met and things that happened to us during the journey.

When the creature set the house on fire, the house became red. Also, there’s a T-shape bridge on the stage where the creature takes Victor’s little brother. When they found the little boy had died, they sent him out in a boat. Since they put a T-shape bridge there, when they pushed the boat on stage really gave the audience an image of a lake. Furthermore, Victor’s house set is built with a slightly sloping design. They divided the stage into two parts, one is Victor’s house and another one is where Victor creates the wife for the creature.  

• The story is told from the Creature's perspective rather than from Victor's. Because of this, the audience witnesses events such as his relationship with De Lacey firsthand rather than in backstory.

• The frame story involving Captain Robert Walton is dispensed with entirely, as well as much of Victor Frankenstein's backstory. The play opens directly with the Creature's "birth".

• The Creature is vegetarian in the novel but eats rabbit in a scene in the play.

• Mr. De Lacey teaches the Creature to read and speak; in the novel the Creature reads on his own and learns to speak just by observing the family.

• The Creature kills the De Lacey family in revenge for their rejection of him, which he does not in the novel.

• Elizabeth Lavenza is Victor's cousin rather than his adopted sister. (They are cousins in the original release of the novel but changed to adopted siblings in the 1831 rewrite. In the play, they remain cousins.)

• The Creature doesn't leave for Geneva until a full year after his birth, rather than four months in the novel.

• The character of Justine, William's nurse, is cut, and William's murder is never solved. The character of Henry Clerval is also cut.

• Monsieur Frankenstein personally brings Victor home from Scotland, and Victor is never imprisoned due to the absence of Clerval from the story.

• The Creature's mate is partially animated and is able to walk in a trance-like state before she is destroyed; in the novel she is not animated at all.

• The Creature rapes Elizabeth before killing her in the play, this does not happen in the novel.

• Victor Frankenstein and Elizabeth stay in Geneva on their wedding night, rather than Villa Lavenza by Lake Como in the novel.

• Felix and Agatha are a married couple in the play, whereas they are siblings in the novel. The character of Safie has been cut.

• Victor dies at the end of the novel; in the play he does not.