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    extreme things that may not make sense to others. Pain is an excellent motivator to do things people don’t think is possible, and Victor Frankenstein proves this by creating life from the dead. Frankenstein’s Monster even proves this by killing off people Victor loves from loneliness. Lastly, Frankenstein monster dies grieving the loss of the only being that he considers close to him and burns himself alive.Victor’s mother dies during the birth of her son, and even though Victor doesn’t…

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    a way to show Frankenstein’s personality, mental state, as well as his feelings about the events that had passed. By using expressive words such as despair and turmoil, Frankenstein’s emotional state was captured after the creation of his monster. In the novel we see that Frankenstein is burdened with the thought of the creature’s monstrous outbursts. Feeling guilty and somewhat terrified of the thought, Frankenstein tries to hide this feeling by saying in the letter that the monster mirrors his…

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    a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany he invents a secret formula to place life into dead organics. Shelly portrays Frankenstein’s creature as a liminal being in both the natural and supernatural and is a being that is “on the brink of life and death, which appears…

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    power, with knowledge comes responsibility, and that Evil is not innate. The first lesson that Shelley portrayed is the idea that men should not pursue godly power. In the beginning Frankenstein’s passion to create life, the task of a god, consumed the entirety of his focus. Before creating his monster Frankenstein’s motivation…

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    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 unknown, but to an anxiety of the human frailty that Shelley believes society too often forgets. The premise of writing with multiple…

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    Age of Ultron and Frankenstein go through the same trouble of creations gone wrong. Tony stark created Ultron but ended up going terribly wrong with Ultron trying to wipe out the entire country of Sokovia, and Victor Frankenstein created his monster it gone wrong and started killing all of his loved ones. Both Age of Ultron and Frankenstein share similarities and differences. The creators of Age of Ultron and Frankenstein use various literary devices like biblical allusions, characterization,…

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    Frankenstein the perception of the monster works with the uncanny to demonstrate not only his human features and attributes but, those qualities which do not fit into the conventional characteristics of a human. Bennett and Royle described the uncanny as ‘not just a matter of the weird or spooky, but has to do more specifically with a disturbance of the familiar’ this is exactly what Frankenstein’s monster demonstrates as a figure of the uncanny. It is the monsters creation, grotesque appearance…

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    you can get a grasp on the range of psychiatric problems there are in the world today. Throughout years and time, mental disorders have been the guiding factor in unusual emotions and actions, creating fear and excitement in the world. Both Frankenstein’s monster of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Walter White of Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad support this theory as their complex minds create interesting story lines, leaving audiences begging for more. These “crazy” characters exhibit actions out…

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    A vast majority of Romantic composers strive to encourage outrage and stimulate some form of sentiment in an attempt to encourage an emotional connection linking the respondent to a protagonist’s situation, which consequently becomes the catalyst for their revaluation of self. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein undeniably applies this formula to a great extent, kindling the reader’s innermost workings and forcing them to reassess their mentality. Having been contextually based in the eighteenth…

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    In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the story of Victor Frankenstein and the inhumane being he creates. Shelley does a stupendous job describing Frankenstein and the monster. Victor Frankenstein was born and raised in Naples and is Genovese. He is the oldest in his family and his parents are Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein. Frankenstein grew up in a good household and his parents loved him dearly. One day his parents brought home a girl named Elizabeth Lavenza. She is…

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