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    creation. Victor realizes the monsters surprisingly humane feelings after he tells his story, which is shown when he states, “His tale, and the feelings he now expressed, proved him to be a creature of fine sensations; and did I not as his maker, owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow”(Shelley 105). As shown, Victor starts to feel guilty and empathize with the creature, but this does not last long as seen further in the story. The monster is elated when he…

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    lives of his loved ones. Mary Shelley warns the reader by constructing relevant themes around the idea of playing God. Mary Shelley characterizes Victor's hate for his own creation by narrating his initial reaction to his monster coming to life. This is true because as the monster was rising, the narrator stated that he was so disgusted with his creation, that he ran away from it. In Frankenstein, it was evident that Victor had mixed feelings about his creation.…

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    morally so he was forced to teach himself everything. Although it wasn 't right for the monster to blame all of his decisions on Victor, he was right about the fact that he deserved to be nurtured and treated humanely and taught how to live in the real world. Plus, Victor went back on his word when it came to creating the monster a mate. 2. Shelley wants us to realize as readers that us humans are the true monsters. Humans are judgemental and we don 't accept change or anything different into…

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    unbounded and unremitting attentions of my friend could have restored me to life” (Shelly, pg 63). This shows that Victor himself knew that at this point in his life that he was sickened from the loneness that overcame him as he was creating the monster. Also, believes that the only cure for his condition is through the care of his beloved friend “Henry Clerval”, who finally was allowed by his father to pursue his passion to study in the University of Ingolstadt. Henry also assisted Victor in…

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    Perhaps one of the most emotionally appealing themes a writer can utilize is that of the social outcast endeavoring to find its place in the world, a theme utilized to great effect by both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre despite their character’s different fates, the former featuring a supposedly monstrous creation who is ultimately rejected wholly by society and the latter an orphan child who is eventually able to carve an admittedly precarious foothold as a…

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    Romanticism is a literary movement which is marked by several key components, many of which are observable in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. One element of Romanticism is the belief that imagination is able to lead to a a new and more perfect vision of the world and those who live in it. In this novel, Victor Frankenstein is the idealist who wants to create life from nothing; that is the ultimate ideal, marking victor as a Romantic. In another sense, Victor's actions demonstrate the Romantic…

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    In this passage from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor is overcome with disgust and horror at the sight of the creature he has reanimated. Consumed with fear, Victor decides to “seek a few moments of forgetfulness” (Shelley 35) and falls asleep. In his dreams he envisions his lover, Elizabeth transforming into his dead mother. Victor wakes from his nightmare with a start, only to face another one in real life. Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein is often interpreted as a response to the…

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    "The Sneetches" is a story by Doctor Seuss where creatures are separated based on whether a star is present on their chest. The Sneetches with stars look harshly against Sneetches without because they feel they are the best. Because of this treatment the Sneetches without stars feel oppressed because of their cruel counterparts. This goes on for a time until Sylvester McMonkey McBean enters town with a machine that can put stars on and take stars off a Sneetch. So seeing this grand…

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    Violence In Frankenstein

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    Is one born to kill? In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature, known by no true name, is brought to life by the protagonist of the story, Victor Frankenstein. Upon seeing what he has created, Frankenstein flees, leaving the creature to fend for himself. While trying to survive, the creation endeavors to make friends, but his attempts are only met with violence. Since the creature is shunned by society, and he is refused any sort of happiness, the creature is the true victim of the novel. The…

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    In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien suggests that the war itself changes a person, the changes could be negative or positive. The negative effect is the war is like a disease that takes over your body and reorganizes everything inside you making the outer layers of you to be unrecognizable to people. For instance, when Tim talks about Lemon fear of the dentist and how he got over the fear: "...something about dentists that just gave him the creeps ....Lemon kept insisting, so the man…

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