Breathless

Instead of showing love for his creature, he abandoned it and then hated the fact that he had indeed created a monster. “…the dreams vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” This hatred that Victor felt towards his creation lead to the monster’s feelings of hate for his creator. The monster from the very beginning like any new born wanted to be loved. He instead was abandoned from…

Context of composer’s powerfully affects form and value with an appreciation of the significance of context allowing for the representation of ideas and reflections of human concerns, continuing to resonate through time. Mary Shelley’s 1818 epistolary text Frankenstein highlights her concerns towards natural philosophy, while comparably, Ridley Scott’s 1992, tech noir film Blade Runner delineates a dystopic future world reflecting mass commercialisation and globalisation of the 1980’s.…

Victor Frankenstein decided to not allow the female version of his first creation to live long, or at all for various reasons. Frankenstein’s journey with creating his first creature was not a peaceful experience. During the 2 years Frankenstein spent making his male creature large in size, since he did indeed already learn how to bestow animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein states “I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself or one of simpler…

In the morning Brooke drove to the hospital. A few more days and I will be out of there. I need to get through the rest of this week. She found her next patient in cubicle three in the ambulatory surgical area. On the stretcher appeared a young female around the age of Marlee. Blankets were tightly wrapped around her body, covering her from head to toe. She started to shiver uncontrollably. A voice was heard under the covers, “I am so cold. Can I get another blanket?” Brooke found the…

Everybody is born with an innate fear of the dark. People instinctively abhor the unknown, and they dread the chaos and disorder that they believe lies in the shadows. Yet A Midsummer Night’s Dream challenges the notion that chaos, trickery, and deceit are perils that always end in disaster. Instead, the green world of the unknown and the disarrayed is where the four lovers: Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena finally find peace and true love. The very chaos that many impulsively dread is…

inner self and sanity as she becomes more inhuman as a result from being in a loveless marriage. Her voice also begins to sound less human as Rochester can, "scarcely recognized her voice. No warmth, no sweetness. The doll had a doll's voice, a breathless but curiously indifferent voice" (102). The sweetness in Antoinette’s voice has gone, making her seem more like a doll and less of a human. The lack of love from Rochester, as well as his actions of cheating with Amélie, has induced Antoinette…

“Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, the breathless and horror filled my heart” (Shelley, 26). These were the words of Victor Frankenstein, a young ambitious scientist, when he brought life to a human-like creature he made from human remains. Scared from the result of his creation, he fled and abandoned him. Now alone, the hideous looking creation, often referred to as a monster, desired for acceptance, but he was forced to experience the cruelties of men. With…

Falling in Love, with Kasie West The stories an author puts out for the world can be enchanting. These stories can take your mind on astonishing journeys of imagination, or even through the real world. They can take you on adventures spiritually, emotionally, or even mentally. Books can affect people in many different ways, and it is all thanks to the authors and their unique styles of writing. Take for instance Kasie West. After reading her books, you will leave wanting more. Her latest novel…

Once again, director, Danny Boyle has combined drama and crime with a pinch of romance and created a British film called Slumdog Millionaire. The film is written by Simon Beaufoy and produced by Christian Colson. The movie is yet another example of rags-to-riches, it is about a Muslim boy named Jamal Malik, who grew up on the streets of Mumbai, India with his older brother Salim Malik, as they lost their mother in an anti-Muslim riot. Jamal and Salim met a little pretty girl of their age called…

The sweltering humidity of my jail cell precipitated down my spine as I sat in deep thought. Stagnant darkness surrounded me, and the only noise present was my steady breath and pounding heartbeat. I noticed a growl in my stomach and my one good hand trembled. My head swirled as my body seemed to malfunction, and I could not pinpoint what I was feeling. Anxiety and nervousness competed with hope and appreciation to occupy my mind. The trial was to be in a few days. A few days until I was…