How to Read Literature Like a Professor
In what chapter does the author reference the hunchback and Frankenstein?
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Chapter 21: Marked for Greatness
QUASIMODO IS A HUNCHBACK . So is Richard III (Shakespeare’s, not history’s). Mary Shelley’s better-known creation, not Victor Frankenstein, but his monster, is a man of parts. Oedipus has damaged feet. And Grendel—well, he is another monster. All characters who are as famous for their shape as for their behavior. Their shapes tell us something, and probably very different somethings, about them or other people in the story.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor