James Whale

Jane Austen's original novel, “Pride and Prejudice” was recreated into a film on a modern take called, “Pride and Prejudice: Zombies.” Both talk about the separation of social class and how Elizabeth's pride and Mr. Darcy’s prejudice forms a mutual hate with each other. But, on the contrary, the novel tells the tale on a more classic tone rather than the films violent action pact take. In similarity, the main focus on pride and prejudice stays and the characteristics of the characters stay…

This passage from Frankenstein is a key part of the stories meaning because it highlights the issue of what to think of the creature. It comes at the end of the story after Frankenstein finally reaches his limits and becomes the creature’s last victim. The passage causes reflection on the question that comes up when the monster tells his story, what makes him a monster. Is it because his evil deeds that were spurred on by despair and loneliness. Is he a beast that should be hated or should this…

In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the theme is the monster within. In her novel, Mary Shelley introduces the creature and how he is created. She reveals the background and past of both Victor Frankenstein and the monster. As the novel, progresses the question emerges as to who is the real monster. Victor Frankenstein, the oldest son of Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein and husband of Elizabeth Lavenza, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. When Victor was young, his family went…

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a book steeped in metaphors, parallels, and relations to other works of fiction and non-fiction, featuring authors and thinkers such as Milton and Wollstonecraft. While much of this is readily visible within the book and footnotes, it is the hidden arc, or rather the twisting of the story of Genesis from the Bible, whose meaning permeates deep within the structure of the book. Shelley uses the Genesis story of the creation of man by God as parallel to the…

The development in the Northern lights. This book children fantasy/steampunk novel “Northern Lights” was published in the 1995 by Philip Pullman, who is a famous fantasy book writer in this century. The book is set in a parallel universe, it features the journey of Lyra Belacqua who is our main protagonist. She is on a quest to the artic to find her missing friend, Roger Parslow and her imprisoned uncle Lord Asriel. Lord Asriel has been doing conducting experiments with a mysterious thing…

Who is the Monster? Children all over the world have grown up relating the name “Frankenstein” to a hideous, terrifying monster. They grew up with the image of a monster made from body parts that were taken from a graveyard, put together into a creature by a mad scientist. There has always been a negative connotation to this name because of the terrible thoughts it brings to mind. The name “Frankenstein” is more commonly related to the monster, but people forget who’s name it actually is, the…

Victor’s obsession with science clouded his judgment causing great suffering in his personal life. Events in his life that show his clouded judgment include: abandoning the monster he created, letting a close family friend die to conceal his secret at all costs, and destroying the companion he had promised to make for the monster. Victor Frankenstein grew up in a very supportive and wealthy home. Frankenstein lived as an only child until the age of five. At this age, Victor’s mother decided…

Water I love getting whisked away into stories of adventures and heroism. Stories that made you look at our world and seem to think it was so astonishing yet so simple, that we were yet to create the futuristic tools books spoke of. Or that we were yet to find the magic that was hidden underneath all the layers of science. I was the only one in my family who had the love for the alternate realities that everyone spoke of. That was before my step father came in. I finally had someone who…

"The Resurrectionist" is a biography of Dr. Spencer Black, a renowned scientist whose work on bizarre mutations and creatures drove him to madness. Written by E. B. Hudspeth, and published by Quirk Books in 2013, this book tells in detail what his life was like starting from early childhood and includes many of his quotes and diary entries that express his beliefs. This book contains "The Life and Writings of Dr. Spencer Black" which contains the details of his life, as well as "The Codex…

Carl Sagan once said, “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” Mary Shelly, author of several novels, wrote Frankenstein in 1818. Frankenstein, a story within a story, also known as genre blending, navigates readers to a fictitious world full of knowledge, friendship, hate, and death. Among this fictitious world, a specific man, Victor Frankenstein, gathers great knowledge from numerous science books. After years of absorbing a collection…