James Whale

This is the story of the demigods who die and live every day. Some of them are destined to do great things but their fate is usually twisted by the evils that lurk around every corner and they are killed before they even realize their true personality. Sometimes they meet their godly parent while sometimes not. The stronger a demigod is the more the chances are he will get caught by the monsters and will be killed. The same goes for the demigod who has a strong heritage. The demigods live hard…

Compare and Contrast of Frankenstein and The Birthmark In both stories “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley and “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the plots focus on the power of science, knowledge, and creating “perfection”. The book, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who is studying natural philosophy. Throughout the years of his studies, he develops an obsession with figuring out how to create life. As he continues his research, he becomes certain that he…

Joyful Death & Futile Faith "Being alive is a crock of shit" (Vonnegut). This seven word statement by Vonnegut's recurring character Kilgore Trout perfectly summarizes the message carried throughout Vonnegut's work. The upbringing of Vonnegut himself contributes to this lackluster view: he grew up amid the Depression. He watched his dad work himself to death as his mother courted suicide. He saw the massacre of innocents amid the firebombing of Dresden and became a prisoner of the Germans…

The speaker in the poem Thunder, by Joanna Baillie, takes the reader on a journey from the beginning of a thunder storm to the end results of the thunder storm. The speaker starts by describing the impending storm that is coming but is still a little ways off. The way she does this is by the following: “Behold the somber robes whose gathering folds,” / “Thy secret majesty conceal”/ “Advancing clouds from every point of heaven” / “Like hosts of gathering foes” (3-8). In the next section the…

The Desire for Power One constant in humankind is the desire to be stronger than other people. Every person wants an upper hand of some sort, whether it is through knowledge, strength, economy, or social rank. This desire for power has driven countless wars and other conflicts, and is present in everybody, whether they embrace or reject it. In Frankenstein, both Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creation show that they want to be stronger, though in different ways. Frankenstein is entranced…

Family, Society, Isolation, Is considered the theme that mostly ceases to happen in the novel of Frankenstein. Although it is very unconscionable to believe that Family, Society, And Isolation take place in a novel that talks about a monster that kills people and the creator being selfish about his creation. There tends to be a Misconnection between his family and friends that sets the character, Victor in isolation. In the beginning of the story, Victor is Set upon a family that loves him with…

Maggie Kanaley English IV Honors Mrs. Schroder 7 December, 2016 Cases of Injustice in Frankenstein In the 19th Century work Frankenstein, the author, Mary Shelley, webs a tale of conflicting interests between Victor Frankenstein, a scientist obsessed with discovering the secret to creating life, and his monster, a hideous creature as a result of one of Frankenstein’s experiments. Since the day of its publication, readers everywhere have argued about who in this tale faced the most injustice at…

In the novel Frankenstein, there are numerous characters that seek or transpire through serious injustices. The book's antagonist, Frankenstein's monster, in his opinion, suffered a great injustice and sought to plot revenge as part of his search for justice. In the beginning, Victor Frankenstein created the monster then abandoned him for his physical demeanor. Doing so, Victor unknowingly set forth a wave of destruction. Additionally, the monster states that he learned to be evil by all the…

Humans have always shown selfish characteristics. Selfishness was discussed in Nicomachean Ethics, which was written by Aristotle back in 340 BC. In the book, he criticized people who lived through life to only benefit themselves. Other stories have warned against self-centeredness as well. The Greeks spoke of Narcissus, a man who loved himself so much that he fell in love with his own reflection and eventually died of old age. This tale, from which the term “narcissism” originates from, dates…

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is written from the perspective of Victor Frankenstein. His actions make up the bulk of the novel and in this essay, we will be evaluating what he does or does not do from an ethical point of view. Overall, Victor Frankenstein is an extremely complex character and I would be naive to say he was either ethical or unethical with regards to his actions. Rather, the complexity of his character is developed through a myriad of arguably ethical and unethical…