James Whale

My Personal Journey "Listen to what I say, my companions, though you are suffering evils. All deaths are detestable for wretched mortals, but hunger is the sorriest way to die and encounter fate."(Odyssey book 3) Circe is referring to Skylla, a monster, in this quote. But, she makes a point. Pain is unavoidable. I had to find that out the hard way. A way I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. I soon got out of it. I screamed to the monsters in my head, "What did I do?" just like Odysseus did when he was…

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a masterpiece that explores the fascination of creating human life from nothing. Since this book was published in 1818, there have been many different recreations of the story throughout these past centuries. The movie Victor Frankenstein directed by Paul McGuigan is one recreation made in 2015 that has an interesting take on the characters in Shelley’s story. Although the film and novel share the same general plot, the movie loosely follows the novel's…

A Fleeting World Cormac McCarthy’s The Road depicts a post apocalyptic world devastated by cataclysms unbeknownst to the reader. The world, seemingly set in the United States, is barren, desolate, and cruel. Cult groups of cannibals roam the the unyielding lands in search of their next victims while the the threat of famine and disease is ever looming. McCarthy focuses the story on a boy and his father who remain unnamed throughout the entirety of the book. The book follows the duo’s progress…

In spite of the title, Frankenstein rejects to be exclusively Victor’s story. This novel works to replace the individual voice with a labyrinth of voices. Shelley illustrates the notion of humanity as a production of multiple correspondences. Life itself overlapping, revealing connections, moving through past and present time: as do letters. Through the creation of Victor’s monster, human life exceeds the dimensions of any one individual, thus creating a parallel of impressions, each based upon…

Frankenstein: An In-Depth Analysis from Past to Present When evaluating and analyzing a novel, one must examine its qualities to determine the category of literature to which it belongs. When Mary Shelley first published her novel Frankenstein, the story was considered peculiar and avant-garde for her times, rendering it a popular subject of analysis. Since its original publication in 1818 until nowadays, professionals and students alike continue to study and critique Shelley’s timeless novel.…

Whereas in “The Veldt”, the children Peter and Wendy had actually (although indirectly) killed their parents with the help of a futuristic technological invention - the “nursery.” The nursery was an “all dimensional superreactionary, super sensitive color film” room that had “mental tape film behind glass screens.” It was first introduced with it “imitating” an African veldt for the children’s parents George and Lydia. After witnessing the too realistic veldt, the parents had begun to consider…

Literary Analysis Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was published on 1818. It is a novel based on determining who is the real monster. In the novel the two main characters are Victor Frankenstein and the Monster. Victor was concentrated into studying many fields; chemistry, physics, and anatomy. He always knew he was going to change the world forever. The Monster was the experiment of Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein entered the University at Ingolstadt with a desire to major in mathematics and not…

The plot summary for the science fiction The End of Eternity is with a grand imaginative background but easy to read: Andrew Harlan, a protagonist, is Twissell's personal Technician.He extracted from Reality and into “Eternity”, a place that exists outside of time , altering Reality where necessary to control the flow of history with a kind of time machine called kettle, while the people recruited from various times throughout history for particular desired skills, from the 27th century, all the…

Is one born to kill? In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature, known by no true name, is brought to life by the protagonist of the story, Victor Frankenstein. Upon seeing what he has created, Frankenstein flees, leaving the creature to fend for himself. While trying to survive, the creation endeavors to make friends, but his attempts are only met with violence. Since the creature is shunned by society, and he is refused any sort of happiness, the creature is the true victim of the novel. The…

{{Info fauna |officialname = Eartheater Skall |nicknames = Settlement Mauler |classification = Annelid |habitat = Ellador |domesticated = No. |status = Rare. |}} A Dwarven settlement sprawling from mountain peak to horizon crumpling to debree, lay ruin by an Eartheater Skall who caverned chambers that inflicted a cave in. The Eartheater Skall is a critter native to Ellador, with white, matted fur and tissue dense enough to endure the ragged drag of the underearth it resides in. Found in…