Breathless

In the excerpt “From Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley, scientist Victor Frankenstein describes his initial reaction towards the awakening of the creature he created. Immediately after Frankenstein animates his creature he is horrified and convinced that he created a monster. Frankenstein initially desired to animate a beautiful creature but was repulsed by his creation once it came to life. Instead of caring for his creation, Frankenstein abandons the creature, forcing it to…

The Tides of Winter Home doesn’t have to be four walls and a door. It doesn’t have to be a pair of arms, a smile, or even a laugh. Honestly, I believe that home, in its most loosely defined nature, can be just about anything, anything evocative; and one cold, Christmas night, ‘home’ became a moment in time. Something cold stirred me awake and I lifted my head up from the floor. A multitude of shivers rippled through my body, leaving goosebumps along my arms and legs in their wake. I staggered to…

The year was 1999 and the Backstreet Boys had just released their song “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely” off of their album entitled Millennium. In that song the group explored what it truly meant to be lonely in a heart-felt song that yanked on the heart-strings of everyone in America and even made many Americans feel as if they were lonely. Although Mary Shelley wasn’t in a boy band nor did she create a catchy song, she did however create a novel that explored the life of a mad scientist…

They seem to have their own miniature perfection, which is charming. From their perspective even measurement of time looks different – the third part of a minute is an important division of time for them. Even miniature fairies, such as Cobweb, Moth, Peas-blossom, and Mustardseed, are devoted to making the world happier and more beautiful. They delight in all beautiful and petite things, and war with things that creep and things that fly. Their behavior seem to be very unselfish and…

Valentina Juanita Ramon’s Murder Mystery The pain to walk around school knowing that one of these little rascals killed my bestfriend.It achs my soul to have to live with that.I will find who ever took Valentinas life and they will pay.Never mess with a latinas life or a knife will appear in your back.It was a very sunny morning with the birds chirping and the small baby birds singing in the morning air.Rosalina was on my way to school with my mom in her car when we pulled up to the…

In the fall of 1957, Edward Allassi sits near the window of his powder blue bedroom, resting from complete exhaustion. His foot rests by the curved, cabriole leg on a fauteuil chair - a piece from the Rococo period. Gazing down the long drive of his grand French villa, to the large cast iron entrance gates, with their art Deco detail Edward is engrossed in thoughts of his youth. He stares at the lamp posts decorated with lion’s heads, recalling the day the lion’s heads were installed. He…

According to Greek mythology, the creation of man is credited to Prometheus, a Titan who molded man out of clay before breathing life into his creations. He also gifted man with fire, which he stole from the gods, to help man’s survival. When Zeus discovers that the earthly man has power over fire, he punishes Prometheus for his crime against the heavenly gods by chaining Prometheus to a rock so his liver could be pecked out and eaten by an eagle peck out every day for the rest of eternity. Mary…

The reoccurring theme of repressed or forbidden desires in Frankenstein mirror those of the gothic literary style, specifically the ways in which it leads to the decay of the protagonist’s psyche. Mary Shelley’s gothic science fiction novel, published 1818, presents a male protagonist whose obsession with scientific discovery leads to his own mental and physically destruction. Frankenstein, on first glance, is a sexless novel, which is peculiar for a gothic novel. However, the ways in which…

How could two men with the same goals have different results? This situation can be encountered across the two stories Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and “Prometheus” by James Baldwin. In their respective stories, Victor Frankenstein and Prometheus both want to aid humanity, yet their societal effects are polar opposites. The two are similar in their compassion for mankind, disregard of human limits, and personal downfall, but Prometheus is successful in benefiting society, while Frankenstein…

independence for the rest of the world to see and understand why we should be and will be together and share bond with each other. As outcasts, we can sacrifice our life to be one with the world so that we do not feel insecure and die of living in our breathless world. On account of that reason I am writing this Declaration to declare the causes which impel us, outcast, not to be in the separation, but to be able to connect and live a life for humanity and for ourselves and for our cause.…