James Whale

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…

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…

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…

Characters emphasizing their emotions and feelings was a very common theme during the Romantic Era. They used various forms of figurative language to give the reader a clear insight on their thoughts and feelings. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein uses various forms of figurative language to express his emotions, thoughts, and feelings. As Victor creates life and goes through the conflicts of daily life, he changes as a human being. Through the use of diction, and the plot,…

The book I choose was "Tuck Everlasting" written by Natalie Babbit. "Tuck Everlasting" is a fiction novel about an immortal family. This family was an outcast because they had something very strange happen to them. This strange event gave them no choice but to be on the run at all times. The novel is taken place in a village called Treegap in the 1880s. In this book there were two main characters Winnie and Jesse. So, let's start off with Winnie. Winnie is a girl that started it all. In the…

During the French revolution, the guillotine was used to behead thousands of people, when using the guillotine, these people acted like monsters and they didn’t care about anything or anyone else. Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses the guillotine to show how easily people can go on a killing spree. He shows how killing becomes emotionless and automatic, and life becomes worthless. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens alludes to ghastly objects such as the guillotine when…

The Power of Fear Mary Shelley's Frankenstein relates one of the most chilling, thought-provoking novels narratives of all time. Two centuries of enamored readers have pored over her deliciously-twisted story. Shelley's novel highlights a myriad of themes exploring ambition, revenge, moral obligation, and familial bonds. We, as readers, are introduced to Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist who unearths the secret to innervating dead matter. He assembles a massive creature from…

"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…

How Does Shelley’s Frankenstein Comment Upon Gender Issues? In her world-renowned novel, Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley recounts the tragic story of the miserable Victor Frankenstein and his monster. The plot of the story is centered around the novel’s subtitle: “The Modern Prometheus”. Mary Shelley portrays Victor Frankenstein as the modern incarnation of Prometheus because he symbolizes the dire consequences resulting from seeking god-like knowledge and…

Themes are the fundamentals and universal ideas that are often explored in literary text for my propose the text that will be explored is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Frankisten is about Victor Frankenstein and his journey in creating the creature that terrorizes his homeland and his own life. The book Frankenstein hold many themes that seemingly all cannot be expected but two themes in the story I believe can be the umbrella that holds all of the themes under it. The two themes that will be…