Ingolstadt

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus once declared, “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.” Those who live by Camus’s transcendentalist views of enjoying the journey rather than the glorification of the end result will lead to a joyous way of living. Within Mary Shelley’s renowned novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, a representation of the madness that evolves around the desire to succeed in doing the impossible, is mangled by the…

Since a young age, Victor's interests fall into the category of chemistry; mainly that of the balance between life and death. While at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany, Victor becomes obsessed with the idea of reanimating life out of inanimate objects. Victor seemed to think that by creating this “new human” he would be doing humanity a service. However, this is not the case. In Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s…

The intrigue of any science fiction novel is derived from the fascination of the hypothetical but plausible realities presented. Mary Shelley’s 1818 critically acclaimed science fiction/Gothic novel, Frankenstein, is about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, facing the repercussions after he creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox experiment. Ostensibly about a story about revenge, the novel can have different perspectives depending on a changing audience. From the…

Johann Joseph Fux Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer and theorist. He studied language, logic, law and music both at Graz University and the University of Ingolstadt from 1680 to 1687. Around 1695, Fux was appointed to the imperial court of Hungarian bishop Leopold I. While in the court of the emperor, Fux dedicated the Missa SS Trinitatis to Leopold I. Johann Fux kept his position in the court after the death of Leopold I, the reign of Joseph I, and Charles VI. He was appointed…

December 2015 Frankenstein’s monster; Friend or Foe? Mary Shelley tells a story about a scientist who is infatuated with science and nature, which will soon lead him into danger. Frankenstein, the scientist, creates this “being” at Ingolstadt, bringing it to life. In Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, the appearance of the monster created does not truly show who he appears inside. He shows quality character, human emotions, and superior intellect until society rejects him, forcing him to…

Throughout the story of Frankenstein there is a monster starting to appear in the book, then the monster is revealed at the end of Frankenstein. The book Frankenstein is about how a man that is isolated from his own family, and how the death and destruction of his family and friends can cause a man to turn into a monster. The book starts out with Robert Walton writing letters to Marry Shelley, about him desiring one friend.Throughout Frankenstein there is little incidents that take place in the…

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley definitely qualifies to be placed in the horror genre of books. It has many of the elements needed to be a horror story. There are many extreme and lonely landscapes in Frankenstein, for example, the desolate island that Victor creates and destroys Frankenstein’s companion. The mysterious atmosphere also keeps the reader guessing what will happen next, and the creation of Frankenstein is also supernatural but it is explained in the story. There is also very high…

People who are parents are supposed to teach lessons and be role models for their children. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley there is an emphasis on the topic of parenting. Parents are supposed to be people their children should emulate. Mary Shelley has shown examples of bad parents by introducing parental figures that do not give nor receive respect while also being untrustworthy and oblivious. The parents that are introduced in this novel are not to be trusted as they do not help but instead…

the most melancholy reflections. I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavoring to bestow mutual pleasure-I was now alone." Victor says this after his mother's death and right before he decides to move to Ingolstadt to further his education. This start to isolation is where Victor begins to change in his decisions about education and what he wants to do. After all this death, it begins to change Victors demeanor and his choices in…

The Way One Achieves a Goal Innovations are made every day because people are never satisfied with their current lives and they strive for improvements. How a person goes about achieving that goal determines the outcome. If a person is sagacious and pragmatic, they will be successful. (neverminIf a person is impractical and does everything without thinking, the outcome could be detrimental. Mary Shelley’s main protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein, David Gow from Geoff Brumfiel’s…