Mary Baker Eddy

The story Frankenstein is about a man named Victor Frankenstein and a monster that Victor created. Victor is a man that is upssed with science and one day took on the project of making a creature. This took Victor a long time but, he did eventually make the creature. The creature is the monster and started life in Victor's apartment which is where he was created. The monster leaves the apartment and explores the world while Victor tries to find the monster and end him.The monster forms an…

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, set in a Puritan town in Salem Massachusetts, is a play where many men and women are accused of associating themselves with the devil. Those accused had two choices: admit their relationship with the devil or hang. These innocent people are killed because of a few teenage girls telling lies. The girls felt respected and listened to for the first time, which fueled their accusations and chaos in Salem. The leader is Abigail Williams, who is a manipulator and…

In Beastly, Kyle Kingson is a pampered, popular, and superficial high school student who bullies anyone he deems inferior to him. His narcissism is propelled by his physical appearance and social status, which further motivates him to tyrannize his classmates. One person Kyle humiliates is a witch, and she gets revenge on Kyle by transforming him into a beast as unattractive as his personality is. In Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Gregor wakes up on a peculiar morning to find out he has shockingly…

how the tale of vampires were born, also explaining how monsters are used to remind us that we have no control over our bodies, or souls. The authors begin by explaining how the tale of a vampire was made in a competition between Mary Godwin and John William Polidori. Mary came up with the story of Dr. Frankenstein, while John made a tale about a creature who lived for eternity (292). He then begins to state how vampires became more popular, and in many different forms of stories. For example,…

A main theme in To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, is to never judge a book by it’s cover. An incredible representation of this theme is the character Boo Radley. Boo is a perfect example of this theme because he is seen as a monster when in reality he’s really a powerful symbol of goodness. Boo has many strengths and weaknesses. His weaknesses include being extremely shy and occasionally violent. Although, his strengths, which include being protective and generous, are much…

Guilty! In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, dozens of people are sentenced to death because they are deemed guilty of witchcraft. The Crucible tells a romanticised version of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. A group of young girls are caught dancing in the forest, and to avoid retribution, they accuse a slave of witchcraft. The charges escalate and spiral into a downhill slope, until even the high members of the community are not safe from ridiculous claims. The convicted ‘‘witches’’ were not…

It has been said by singer Sonya Teclai "It's always the ones with dirty hand pointing the fingers." For Abigail from the play The Crucible this statement could not be more true. Abigail was the one accusing the women of being witches after she had already slept with Proctor. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller was set in the small town of Salem Massachusetts Abigail the niece of the minister of the church has been the one accusing women of being witches to not get in trouble because of the…

The play “The Crucible” in the year 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts people were accusing others of “witchcraft”. People in this era were very christian. This all got started when they found the girls in the woods dancing naked. These girls then acted up and then were blaming other innocent people of witchcraft in order for them to get out of trouble. This then lead to deaths of the people. Although, people couldn't have done anything to the the hysteria in Salem Elizabeth, Parris, and Abigail could…

Gothic literature of the nineteenth century echoed the repressed fears held by individuals of the ideas introduced in the Enlightenment like an exhale. Tales of mad scientists dominated literature like a mirror into America’s psyche. In the early twentieth century filmmakers coincidentally, or intentionally caught onto the repressed fears individuals held in regards to the advancement of science and the decline of religion, and created a horror film empire on the topic. Upon the development of…

there have been many great works that explore a topic that has been taboo for decades. Two works of literature really explore and enlighten readers of what humanity means to others would have to be Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Both of these books create a controversy and make the reader truly think about what is morally right to them about humanity. Several parallels can be discussed when comparing the two works but I would like to focus on the three main…