Bride of Frankenstein

Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein tells a story of an obsessive man who allows his pursuit of science to take over his ability to think about the consequences of his actions. By playing god to satisfy his intellectual curiosity, Victor Frankenstein gives life to a monster that he cannot properly deal with and that leads to his ultimate demise. By illustrating this tragic affair, Mary Shelley shows that just as an unfettered flame can both illuminate a room and burn it down; science can be a positive…

In the novel Frankenstein, the most intense relationship was between a man and his friendships, not between a wife and a spouse. (13 Hale) Shelley wrote many lengthy conversations, between Mary Shelley and Lord Baron, Baron was an attentive, but quiet observer. (13 Hale) Shelley’s first hand observation of intense and deep male friendships, gave information for the look of male homosocial relationships in Frankenstein. (13 Hale) The essential danger introduced by the creature, which was a sexual…

Extracts derived from Letter IV of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein foreshadows the elementary ideas that are instilled during the course of the novel. Throughout key ideas and motifs such as the pursuit of knowledge and the dangers involved, appreciation for nature and the sublime, elements that make this a gothic text, the recurring motif of life and death or light and dark. These ideas are found throughout the text and consistently recur. Shelley instilled these ideas because of the political…

benevolent, Hubris-filled luminaries of Victor Frankenstein and Prometheus have, too, been answerable for stealing for the people – but not from the people; no, they, furthermore like Robin Hood, choose to purloin from the invulnerable Higher-Ups. But the duo’s charm does not stop there: in contemporary times, still, Prometheus has maintained as a symbol for progress in science and technology; with…

Parenting is a hard job, It takes dedication and love to raise a child. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley employ Victor’s family to characterize how good parenting involves being encouraging and guiding children kindly. He had a great childhood, he thought that other families were different than his, parenting style. Victor was a really smart person and he loved science. His father gave his own opinion to Victor about knowledge and if Victor should gain more or not, victor's dad was also their for…

The power of an author enables changes and drastic alterations to occur in any part of the story to any character. Ian McEwan’s Atonement portrays an author within the book that has God-like power when dictating the lives of other characters. Briony serves as the God-like author that shifts the future of Cecilia and Robbie from shattered to passionate by the movement of her fingers on a typewriter. As Briony tries to reach atonement, she creates a story she wishes were true to fulfill her…

H.P. Lovecraft’s Temple tells the story of how a German crew on a badly damaged ship during World War One slowly descends into madness. A combination of odd sightings, fear, illness, and eventually violence and suicide leave the protagonist, Karl Heinrich, all by himself on a doomed ocean voyage. Ultimately he leaves his ship and dies while exploring what he believes to be Atlantis. An episode of Star Trek: Voyager titled “Bliss” also deals with theme of a descent into madness. This science…

loss, to loneliness, and the like. Gothic stories such as Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, aspire to unleash and elucidate these sensations. In the fashion of Romantic-era literature, this dread is shown as a ramification of excessive human ambition. To achieve this, Frankenstein shuffles the story’s chronology and employs three different voices to piece its events together, highlighting aspects of Frankenstein, the monster, and Walton, and also exposes readers not to a fear of the…

Over 1,400 years have passed since the legend of the Loch Ness Monster arose in Scotland. The Loch Ness Monster famously known as Nessie is said to inhabit the Scottish Highlands. The legend of Nessie emerged in the book ‘Life of Saint Columba’ by Adomnan written in the sixth century AD. Saint Columba was an Irish Monk who was in the Land of the Picts to visit the Pictish king when he noticed some residents burying a man by the river. Some of the residents who witnessed what happened explained…

Shelley’s novelbook, Frankenstein, isolation is confronted in different ways by different characters. Victor Frankenstein, the Creation and Robert Walton all suffered both the physical and emotional effects of isolation. While Robert Walton barely escapes the dangers of isolation, both Victor and the Creation die because of it. Throughout the novel, Mary Shelley repeatedly uses multiple characters to show that isolation when not averted, typically results in death. Victor Frankenstein brought…