Breathless

Individuals are frequently told from a young age to understand somebody rather than judging them based on their appearance. Yet in both Frankenstein and Othello characters place a large emphasis on someone's exterior. The theme of appearance versus reality is prevalent in both William Shakespeare's Othello and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Characters in both pieces of literature lack to further understand certain peoples' personalities. The over analysis of appearance done by individuals in both…

The Romantics were obsessed with the natural world. Nature to them acted as a spiritual spring, an eternal source of inspiration from which they drew to motivate their writing. Likewise, Shelley’s Frankenstein shows a fascination of nature characteristic of the Romantic Era. However, Frankenstein’s secondary themes also include the progression of science and technology, as well as exploration and discovery. Shelly unites these two themes with the concept of awe. As Victor Frankenstein…

Ben Jacobson Mr. Fries March 13, 2017 H Block Parallel Between Opposites Thesis Statement- In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, the main protagonist, Victor sees his own persona reflected in the image of the Creature. No matter who you are, at one point in your life you will find yourself staring at a person that you perceive as your opposite. However, life is full of smokes and mirrors. It is unpredictable. Your perceived opposite can actually be a mirror image of yourself. It is this mirror…

Will the True Monster Please Stand How can a monster be recognized? Many describe such a creature by appearance; a monster is “typically large, ugly, and frightening” (Merriam-Webster). But what if the evidence is not physically apparent? In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who is determined to cheat death. His ego fuels his ambition to create a “creature” that would admire him like a god. However, when that creature falls short of meeting Victor’s…

complexion and straight black lips.” It emphasises the unnaturalness of the monster as he is beautiful and yet hideous and monstrous and this is added to with juxtaposition of the pure white teeth and the black lips. Frankenstein in the extract says a “Breathless…

cherished him. Be that as it may when it saw the world did not see anyone who at any rate provided for him an arm to remained up. Victor Frankenstein wanted to give life to a creature, but when he managed to do it “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart…”. He was scared of what he had created and ran away from his creature, leaving it all alone and hurt. Victor Frankenstein made the first step into making the Creature a real monster by running away…

Abby, was that villain and over the course of a week, everything I knew and held dear was systematically destroyed by her. Sometimes your life ends in ways that you never saw coming, and sometimes you fall so unbelievable fast it still leaves you breathless months later. The day was September 6th when I unknowably changed my life for both the better and worse. I woke up like any other…

A Great and Sudden Change Scattered throughout literature are the unfortunate corpses of supporting characters. For instance, the titular character of Shakespeare’s Macbeth arranges the murder of Banquo, his fellow-soldier and best friend. In a work of Oscar Wilde’s, Dorian Gray stabs his friend in order to conceal ruinous information. In neither case does the main character directly suffer; rather, a character close to the main character dies. Why does such a thing occur? According to Thomas…

due to the boundaries that white women have put up for African women. After Asagi gives Beneatha the clothing from his native country she believes herself to resemble that of a queen. She says “‘To become a queen of the Nile!’ (she exits and I'm breathless and blaze of glory.)”(Hansberry 517). When identifying herself through her African Roots, Beneatha feels like she is a queen because of the amount of freedoms one might feel they would have in their home country. In comparison to being a…

1. In interpreting gender, our ability to identify gender contributes and is crucial to if and how we chose to interact with these people. There are signals that we perceive when determining if a person is a man or female; we put them in these categories to make sense of what type of person they are. Sut Jhally claims that when we become confused about our signals in identifying if a person is a man or a woman, than it is impossible to interact with that person. This perhaps may be because we…