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    In Paradise Lost, Eve falls victim to a careful trap laid for her by the rhetoric of a master persuader. Adam, though, knowingly commits the same sin so that he may be with Eve because he cannot bear to be without her. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the Creature believes himself to be “like Adam … apparently united to … no other being in existence” (Shelley 118). Also like Adam, the Creature knowingly commits his sins, hoping to be able to follow his creator and his hypothetical ‘Eve’ into…

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    an important figure in the government, and he grew up with a cousin named Elizabeth which his parents expected them to elope. Also, he had a little brother named William and his best friend Henry. Frankenstein went to a famous university called Ingolstadt in Germany. He thought he had quite a lot of knowledge under his belt but his professor M. Waldman said that everything he studied had been outdated and to study the new books he suggested. Later on, he begins to learn science very well and…

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    Introduction The focus of this challenge was to undergo extensive research and then use that knowledge to invest responsibly into six stocks. We were given $100,000 to to invest. This challenge taught me how unpredictable stocks can be, and how tricky an investment can become. The six stocks I chose to invest in were Tesla Motors, Air Canada, Apple, Audi, Tim Hortons and Netflix. All together I made $10,530.63. The stock that made me the most money was Tim Hortons (invested $10,000 and has a…

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    back to Freud’s dream analysis. His signs are exhibited right after the monster is created. “But it was in Vain; I slept, indeed but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to changed, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms” (…

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    It could be said that Mary Shelley’s writing was very advanced for her time, especially since she spoke about science fiction before it was a major genre. Shelley also spoke about Romanticism in Frankenstein. Her novel explored the suicide and doppelganger motifs. Although Frankenstein was one of the last Romantic works, it was also one of the first science fiction novels. Her success of Frankenstein may be due to her having drawn inspiration from her life. To this day, Shelley’s Frankenstein…

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    reaction is disgust, worry, and a quick realization that he had committed a deadly sin and soon a large problem would arise that would place his entire family and community at risk. The deeper Victor researched into philosophy and other majors at Ingolstadt the more that Mary Shelley introduces the dark and corrupted side of this character 's failure. This major failure when creating the monster from the dead violated religious laws and all of these “luxuries [that] only formed a more horrid…

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    In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein was an aspiring scientist who wanted to play the hand of God and create life. Through Frankenstein's obsession to create life he begins to seclude himself from the world to focus on his work. While he did successfully bring to life the dead, he is horrified by his creation and immediately rejects the creature. Victor lives his life as an outcast because of the monsters acts against him and the people dearest to him. While the Monster…

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    Victor, from an early age, became interested in science and research and read many books on the subject. Soon he moved to Ingolstadt to continue his studies where he met his friend Henry Clerval. There Victor continued with his investigations and began to create a living being from corpses. Victor created a monstrous being from which he fled the moment he saw him. He soon received…

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    Even early on in his youth he was obsessed with life and philosophy. This love for science only grew more when he went to Ingolstadt. He became increasingly antisocial and became a hermit trapped in his room and surrounded by his studies. His science would consume his every thought. Shelley writes “These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting…

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    the dangers of ambition and anger. Throughout his life, Victor Frankenstein are obsessed with new knowledge which gives him power to seek the unknown secrets of nature. Triggered by his first readings of natural philosophers and his studies in Ingolstadt, Victor becomes infatuated with the “structure of the human frame” and begins to “examine…

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