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    stronger choice and would be better suited as a source of academic information as he provides a clear and unbiased mindset on who women pirates truly were. When reading Redicker’s view on women pirates, the focus is mainly placed on Anne Bonny and Mary Read. His paper spins a tale of their courage…

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    Mellor, Anne K. “Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein.” Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne K. Mellor. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988. 220-32. Rpt. in Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1996. 274-86. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is set in a patriarchal nineteenth-century society in which men function in the public sphere and women are limited to the household. In her essay “Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein,” Anne K. Mellor explores…

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    the question now is did Simmie accomplish these purposes. Yes she did accomplish the purposes. The fact the book got the Arthur Ellis award for best true crime and the recognition that it brought upon Simmie for written it and it’s a generally assumption that it’s a very good book for learning bits of history in Canada “By the time the war ended, the labyrinthine network of trenches would stretch all the way from the Belgian coast to Switzerland, a distance of more than six hundred miles.…

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    The story of Frankenstein is shared by many people and its’ story is used in many child books, movies, short stories, etc. The author, Mary Shelley, relates a lot of herself and her personal family issues in the novel. The novel itself talks about a common motif that relates to the author, protagonist, and antagonist. It is abortion. Abortion is what inspired Shelley to write and publish the novel. The novel begins with Captain Walton, who is on a voyage to explore the North Pole. During his…

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    Greed In Frankenstein

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    In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley repeatedly suggests—and eventually delivers upon—the imminence of doom based upon the protagonist’s unbridled ambition in order to warn of the gruesome consequences of hubris and ego. Victor Frankenstein, the title character and protagonist, seeked to discover the secret of creation, not to cure disease or to better the world, but instead, simply to gain fame and clout in the scientific community. Not only did Frankenstein aim to essentially “play God”…

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    Duality In Frankenstein

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    In her 19th century romantic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley explores the characteristics of humanity, illuminates societal influences on development, and challenges the traditional biological definition of human beings through literary allusions and character interactions. Particularly, Shelley focuses on the characters of the creature and his creator, pitting an ugly, malformed giant against an educated, dedicated scientist to come to a surprising conclusion. While the creature becomes fallen…

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    choosing just reimbursing desire will harm not just himself but also the people around him and it was not worthy! There are various examples of suffering in different characters due to their predicaments or the circumstances by which they are surrounded. Mary Shelley is trying to show that suffering in general emotion for many different types of people, she makes emphasis on the fact that suffering is a consequence due to the individual’s actions. Victor was suffering due to the ambitions of his…

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    In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, appearance and exterior beauty are used as methods for determining the superiority, acceptance, and status of an individual of society. Through her characters, Shelley emphasizes the unfortunate importance of beauty in first impressions, the superiority of good-looking individuals, and reliance on outer beauty for pleasure. It’s although inner beauty lacks importance and outer beauty is all that is significant to humanity. We are introduced to several…

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    common message as a man publishing his story one hundred and seventy-three years later in 1855. However, captivity narratives have been popular topics throughout history which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their separation in in the gulf of time, Mary Rowlandson and Herman Melville shared similar experiences in witnessing captivity at the hands of two cultures and the violence that came with these experiences. While the New World offered an abundance of social and financial potential, it…

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    fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes. Many of these types of novels portray a dystopian future society as seen in George Orwell’s 1984. Other works portray monsters like in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Or they deal with time travel, and aliens like the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. In any case, there are a multitude of stories that can be categorized in this one genre. With each story portraying the monster…

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