Bride of Frankenstein

among the characters in The Robber Bride; each of the main characters have dealt with the darkness they once called their friend. It all started in college when Tony, Roz, and Charis all met the darkness they call Zenia. They let her in thinking she is the light of their life when she really a twisted web of lies and deceit. She messes with their men and turns them against the women they loved. A “bride” that steals the men of other “brides”. In The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood illustrates the…

Movies are a great way to learn about leadership. And not many movies can compete with the Princess Bride (Reiner, 1987) when it comes to learning leadership. Let’s take a look at how leadership is demonstrated in each of the characters, based on the work of Komives, Lucas, and McMahon (2013): in Table 8.2: Examples of Common Roles in Groups (Komives et al., 2013, 323-324). These roles are as follows: “Information Seeker, Opinion Seeker, Opinion Giver, Summarizer, Clarifier, Gatekeeper,…

A marriage is a beautiful thing, but sometimes the marriage can be complicated. It is not always a marriage between two people can keep the love, and keep their marriage, as they promise when they get married. Some people are getting a divorce, and moving on and falling in love with another person. Reconciliation is a short story written in 2006 by Polly Clark. The story is about the main character Laura who is alternate between marriage and divorce. Laura is a first-person narrator because in…

The theme of free will and fate plays one of the dominant roles in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet love story. Fate and free will are responsible for a lot of conflicts that happened throughout the play. Shakespeare gives a hint to the audience about the doom of the couple by saying in the prologue that “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” (Prologue pg.23) Romeo and Juliet’s love is “dead-marked” which means that their love will bring their death. From the beginning, fate allows Romeo…

she wants becomes her knight in shining armor. While Jane is questioning herself does she really want a man like Darcy? In the end Jane marries the man she wanted to be with and wrote a story to show her and her husband’s evolution through Pride and Prejudice. Darcy begins to rise above pride and prejudgment before him and others, while opening up to look at opinions in a new way. Darcy becomes more humble and ready to not be in charge as much as he would in the beginning of the novel.…

Pride can be a highly respectable trait, however, everything good in too large a quantity is harmful. “There are two kinds of pride both good and bad. 'Good pride ' represents dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.”-author John C. Maxwell. Shown in the preceding quote are the effects of having too much pride. It seems as if most of the time the person who is in possession of this pride is oblivious to the fact that they…

In The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Inigo and Fezzik both experience epiphanies. Inigo is a Spaniard that dedicates his life to avenging his father by killing his murderer, the Count. Fezzik is an extremely large Turk who is terrified of being alone. After their epiphanies, Inigo becomes a more confident character and Fezzik becomes a helpful character that doesn’t just get in the way all the time. The first character to experience an epiphany is Inigo. Inigo’s realization was he must…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Science, Science Fiction, or Autobiography? In this evaluation, I will consider Sherry Ginn’s assessment that while the novel contains autobiographical details, it is actually a work of science fiction. Sherry Ginn, an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Director of Women’s Studies at Wingate University in North Carolina, relates the many similarities in the Mary Shelley’s personal life and her novel Frankenstein. Ginn concludes that the novel is Science…

characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? When I watched the movie of Frankenstein that published in 1931 and directed by James Whale, I recognized that there are differences between the novel and the film version. The first difference I noticed in Whale’s film is the names of the characters have been change and rearrange. For instance, the protagonist in the film is Henry Frankenstein instead of Victor Frankenstein. Henry Clerval, who is a friend of Victor Frankenstein in the novel has became…

Dr. Victor Frankenstein achieves his victory very similar to that to the British when they defeated the French at Waterloo. The overview of Frankenstein helps to show how victory is achieved by Victor in the novel. Victories aren’t always achieved on a battlefield, or a field, or even in the classroom. Some triumphs, however, are won in life itself. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a successful scientist, and his creation of his “creature”. The story is told…