James Hutton

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (or the Modern Prometheus) 
Frankenstein (or the Modern Prometheus) is a short novel written by Mary Shelly in 1818. It’s told through letter between Captain Robert Walton and his sister Margaret. Robert tells the tale of a man called Victor Frankenstein who he met on his expedition to the north pole. Later on we hear the story through Frankenstein, his creation and some family members of Frankenstein’s. 
The story follows Victor Frankenstein as he tries to bring life,…

This dream is for romantics and lovers. Certainly the dream isn’t the sum of the colorful patterns of Hawaiian shirts, coconut bras and grass skirts alone. It’s not in the Pina Colada, or the Surfer on Acid. The boutiques of Waikiki teeming with Japanese tourists, those we can ignore all together, laugh at their circumstance. The accoutrements of hustle and bustle such as these have all been and will continue to be part of the Great Marketing image of a Paradise, and everyday life grows like…

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is the author of “Monster Culture” who connects society and the monsters that humans make. Cohen explains how the Monster always falls under one or more of the categories, decided by the Monster’s characteristics. These characteristics include the monster who is a cultural body, the monster who always escapes, the monster who always brings crises, the monster who is an outsider, the monsters whose story prevents us from breaking rules, the monsters who represent fear and…

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men was written by Eric Foner and was first published in 1995 by Oxford University Press in New York. The book includes 353 pages including the abundant amount of selected bibliography. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men is a nonfiction, American history book that is based on the ideology of the Republican Party before the American Civil War. Eric Foner included many sources for the construction and structure of the Republican Party. Its purpose it to provide more…

The short story, The Most Dangerous Game, written and published in 1924, by Richard Connell. In the story, a hunter named Rainsford is stranded on an island, owned by a wealthy Cossack named Zaroff. Who hunts humans, not animals. Zaroff then gives Rainsford a choice, to be hunted by Zaroff for three days, or to be killed by Zaroff’s manservant, Ivan. Rainsford chooses to be hunted by Zaroff and is given hunting gear. On the last day of the hunt, Zaroff and his dogs corner Rainsford, and…

In Frankenstein, Nature and science have brought a significant impact onto the characters. The progression of science combined with nature leads to a debacle. With this, there are various effects and roles shown through nature and science. Mary Shelley expresses her message about this. In her times, she was part of the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romanticist age and this led her to composing a story with nature and science competing against each other. From the struggles between the…

In the novel A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, there are many ways in which Ebenezer Scrooge is redeemed by Jacob Marley’s ghost and the three Christmas Spirits. The novel’s setting starts in London where there are serious world problems lurking. Dickens, throughout the novel, does not stray far from showing the importance of maintaining good humanity in one’s lifetime. Dickens depicts this through the main character, Scrooge, showing his redemption from the beginning and end of the…

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, uses neglect, rejection, and the fact that the creature represents a shadow of Victor’s past to create a never ending conflict between Victor and the monster. This causes the death of Victor’s closest friends and family to be murdered by the creature who had suffered since the start of his life. Upon the creation of the monster, Victor flees his apartment to escape the horrors he had just witnessed. The creature was left alone without an explanation or…

The song “Human” by Rag’n’Bone Man came out in February of 2017. Rory Graham, or better known as his stage name Rag’n’Bone man, is a British singer and songwriter in the Alternative and Indie genre. His song “Human” argues that everyone is human and makes mistakes. Its argument is effective because of its use of Aristotle’s forms of persuasion ethos, logos, and pathos. As well as the choice of words in the lyrics. The song starts with a tambourine and slow claps on a sluggish beat that imitates…

The poem “Science” by Robinson Jeffers consists of fifteen lines describing the consequences of modern man which ends with a question of their ‘dream.’ The poem references man’s inventions, science and technology, and nature or the environment where man first came to live and proceeded to destroy. Jeffers begins with a description of man, and then ends by questioning, “who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much?” (14-15), referring to what man or humanity has done which displaying…