Read Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein and watch one or more of the numerous films inspired by the novel. How do the book and the movies differ? In what ways are they similar? Specifically, how is the character of the monster depicted in each?

During the Romantic period, opium was inexpensive and readily accessible, and people were unaware of its potential dangers. Explore works by Romantic writers who claimed opium as a source of inspiration, such as Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822). Compose an essay discussing how the drug may have influenced their writing, referencing specific examples from their works.

Read Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience and create your own poetry in a similar style. Alternatively, write an ode in the manner of Keats.

Research the lives of Mary Shelley or Jane Austen. Write an essay explaining how cultural attitudes and expectations of women during their time influenced them. How did they challenge and defy those attitudes and expectations?