Lester Young

Should Celebrities Be Role Models Why or Why Not? Teenagers are well known for having an opinion on what they like and dislike in the world today. Celebrities have a huge influence on the youth of our generation. They are not just known for their movies, albums, and good looks, but they are also known for their infamous criminal records. Many believe that celebrities have a positive influence on teens because of their charity events for the causes they support, but these same naive people tend…

We live in a society where it is difficult to go against the norm. Each of us are pressured to act a certain way, or look a certain way in order to be accepted. Such as teenagers may face peer pressure to do certain activities that may not be right to them, but do it anyways, because they want to fit in. But this burden of conformity is not only present in the real world, it can be found in literature as well. The story "St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell depicts that…

James Wohlpart contends that Mary Shelley “defines the nature of artistic production in her own society, especially as that production emerges from a male poetic” (265) through the relationship of the Creator and the Monster. In other words, Wohlpart believes that Shelley is pondering the ethical nature of the poets of her era, which were predominantly male. Wohlpart continues to argue that Shelley is creating an allegory between the artist and God while further asserting that the creator must…

In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein was an aspiring scientist who wanted to play the hand of God and create life. Through Frankenstein's obsession to create life he begins to seclude himself from the world to focus on his work. While he did successfully bring to life the dead, he is horrified by his creation and immediately rejects the creature. Victor lives his life as an outcast because of the monsters acts against him and the people dearest to him. While the Monster…

In the frame narrative, Frankenstein, an aspiring scientist, Victor frankenstein, creates life out of death, but this life turns out being an abhorred creature, nothing like the creators intentions. Through many trials, the humanity of Victor is questionable and the creature’s knowledge of how to be human grows exponentially. A human can be distinguished by their need for affiliation, desire to be accepted, and compassion. Throughout the story of Frankenstein, the creature displays more…

Victor Hugo specifies that Jean Valjean is a cruel, broken-hearted man that is ultimately changed by the acts of love and compassion by the people around him in the novel, Les Miserables. Jean Valjean course of life after prison sets him up at the Bishop’s house, leading him to meet the kind Bishop. With the Bishop’s kind acts that Valjean has embraced, Valjean spreads his kindness and sympathy to others along the way. With all this kindness and goodness in Valjean, connecting to God will become…

opinions on looks alone (103). Of course, he learned very quickly that this is not the nature of all humans, even though he wants to believe otherwise. Because he begins his life as a calm and somewhat sensible being, he is naïve enough in his relatively young age to believe that all beings feel the same. His creator didn’t stay around long enough to teach the monster the mechanics of the outside world or even give the creation a name. Instead, the creation is referred to as ‘monster’,…

thee from this present shame, If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear, Abate thy valor in the acting it.” (Shakespeare.4.1.118-122) Friar Lawrence aided in their rebellion by giving them the idea to run away from the adults who forbid their love. The young couple believed that they did not need any aid or assistance from their family and felt that they would be better off on their own. In the article, the author writes, “According to the National Institution of Health, it often occurs as a teen…

Shelley’s gothic monster of the imagination is compared to the ‘devil’(1) of Hyde displaying man’s mental inhibitions. Stevenson adapted Frankenstein into a creation of science that inhabits the oppressive aspects of humanity. The fear is haunting because the elements of animality are presented as lingering within everyone thus intensifying the horror. The idea that the monster evolved from the beast within, portrays a more tangible monster. “Jekyll grew pale to the lips… a blackness about his…

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, there are recurring themes of isolation, nature, and scientific advancements. Written during the Industrial Revolution, Frankenstein also takes inspiration from the machinery and technology that was developed during that time. Shelley, as well as other romanticists, was against the societal shift towards technology and encouraged the appreciation of nature. Shelley uses the monster in her novel as a societal reflection of the Industrial Revolution and as a warning…