Lost

Once again, as in “Friday”, and as in Catholic devotional tradition, these failures are the “daily wounding” that continues to nail Christ to the “eternal Cross” of the poem’s title. In one of Jennings’ early collections, Song for a Birth or Death a sequence of poems entitled “The Clown”, the circus clown becomes a clear image of the crucified Christ. The similarity is apparent in a variety of terms that include innocence “you seem like one not fallen from grace”, “helplessness” and the…

death in the final scene. Society won once the Creature was born, because, he was born hideously like a monster, and society stereotypes monstrous looking individuals as being monstrous being that are evil and crave blood. Even though the Creature lost the fight Shelley won her as her novel Frankenstein teaches the reader to not let society control you, and to always see people as humans ,and not as different races, genders and…

In Paradise Lost, Eve falls victim to a careful trap laid for her by the rhetoric of a master persuader. Adam, though, knowingly commits the same sin so that he may be with Eve because he cannot bear to be without her. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the Creature believes himself to be “like Adam … apparently united to … no other being in existence” (Shelley 118). Also like Adam, the Creature knowingly commits his sins, hoping to be able to follow his creator and his hypothetical ‘Eve’ into…

In the book Candide written by Voltaire, Voltaire portrays a world riddled with innumerable horrors such as disease, natural disasters, rape, and war. Of all the worldly evil criticized in Candide, slavery is by far the worst. Despite Voltaire’s consistent use of humor throughout the book, when the topic of slavery is mentioned the mood becomes completely somber. Through the disheartening story of the African slave and the description of El Dorado, the utopian land free of all immoral practices,…

traditionally female role by creating life by sewing together and reanimating dead body parts in his secluded laboratory. Immediately abandoning his creation, Victor Frankenstein leaves him to fend for himself in a society that rejects the peculiar. Lost in an evil world, the Creation is forced to learn how to take care of himself as he is continuously rejected by anyone he attempts to connect with. Frankenstein’s Creation deserves the most empathy from the reader because he came into this world…

Frankenstein and Lord of the Flies take place in different settings; however, there are corresponding similarities between the common threats of the characters portrayed in these books. Different troubles are seen in these two distinct books, all of which come from the same basic conclusion that the characters are going to be isolated from society and destroyed. These circumstances and demeanors the characters take are also the reason that leads to the changes of themselves, which creates a…

His knowledge his greatly enhanced as he discovers an abandoned leather satchel with three books named Milton's Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives and The Sorrow of Young Werther. He considers these volumes as his treasures as they have an immense importance to him. The creature is enthralled with each of these volumes reading each one “as a true history” (pg 92) and considers…

Victor Frankenstein was a selfish man who did not understand the responsibility associated with the creation of human life. He allowed Justine to die innocently and did not protect Elizabeth. The product of his selfishness opened a new world of horror and hate to the society in which he and his family lived. Mary Shelley opens the book with a bittersweet setting; which slowly; by the end of the book turns into a horrific tragedy. Victor Frankenstein lives a happy life with an adopted cousin…

After Enkidu’s death, Gilgamesh became afraid, lost courage realized that he is not immortal thus went on the journey, crossing ocean to find the immortality. It can be argued that Gilgamesh character change from an arrogant king to scared individual where he rambles to find the antidote to everlasting…

All of my childhood, I spent it playing superhero. You see back then I was invincible. With one hi-yah I could defeat the supervillain and rescue my Lois Lane. But that fun and games were soon lost. I was 7 years old when I realized, I’m anything but invincible. My life was smooth sailing until my Grandmother died. Standing there looking at her open casket made me realize that death exists and that I am just mortal. This wasn’t some comic book where nobody stays dead. In our world, the end is…