Mary Catherine Bateson

Why would an old-school barber have the thoughts about killing their customer? Why would a dentist make the removal of a tooth so painful for a mayor? The story “Just Lather, That’s all” written by Hernando Tellez and the story “One of These days” constructed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both of these stories have strong similarities between both of them but what really sticks out is how similar both the Barber is just as similar to the Dentist. Both of these stories have hatred in them either if…

The Crucible is full of blaming and lying. The blaming begun when Mr. Parris caught the women dancing in the woods. After that blaming showed up everywhere from Abigail blaming Tituba, to Proctor blaming Abigail. It was nobody’s fault but the person next to them. Everyone felt the need to tell their own lies. That also happens in today's society with many court cases where women charge a man with rape then years go by, and she begins to feel the guilt of lying and eventually confesses to her…

Frankenstein, a novel written by Mary Shelley tells the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein and his creation of a monstrous creature. Throughout the novel we are able to witness the relationship between the monster and his creator while simultaneously following their individual paths as they cross one another. From each individual journey we see how appearance, ambition, lack of compassion, affection, grief and horror contribute to each story and play a leading effect in the perspective of…

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible uniquely reexamines the Salem witch trials from the perspective of the townspeople swept up in the madness. Over the course of the play, Miller introduces readers and viewers to the individuals of Salem, both the accusers, the righteous, and the ordinary. John Proctor’s struggle to save his wife, Elizabeth, to end the trials, and to preserve his honor take center stage as the drama unfolds. Commonly described as the ‘tragic hero,’ the text of The Crucible clearly…

One day, in 1960, a man named Tim Dinsdale drove to Loch Ness in Scotland and began to film something that would change reality. People should believe that the Loch Ness monster may exist in Loch Ness. The fact that the Loch Ness monster exists is supported by significant evidence that includes water-based sightings, land-based sightings, film/pictures, and sonar evidence. This monster is according to Dictionary.com “a large aquatic animal resembling a serpent or a plesiosaur like a reptile,…

Within Manuel Aguirre’s “Gothic Fiction and Folk-Narrative Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” and A. A. Markley’s “Mary Shelley's ‘New Gothic’: Character Doubling and Social Critique in the Short Fiction.” we see the reevaluation of the presence of the gothic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Gothic as both a genre and a form of literary narration and Shelley’s usage and possible manipulation of is pondered over in both article. Manuel Aguirre argues that Shelley’s Frankenstein…

never accepted by him, it lets its Superego takeover by giving Frankenstein a chance at redemption despite his awful treatment of his monster. This was argued by Haidee Kotze in her article, “Desire, Gender, Power, Language: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” stating: The dueling interpretations of Shelley’s novel reflect the complicated relationship—and grotesque intertwining—of man and monster. Yet since Frankenstein never accepts his monster, while his monster gives…

Love is a destructive force. This is the common theme shared by the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the ancient Roman text The Aeneid by Vergil. The deer and fire imagery that highlights the disastrous love of Dido and Aeneas is referenced through Victor Frankenstein. Both texts comment on powerful emotions and unavoidable fate. The tragedy itself begins with the realization that love is painful. In the Aeneid, Dido doesn’t realize how strong her feelings for Aeneas are until it’s too…

Frankenstein’s Folly In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley criticizes the Enlightenment through characterization, symbolism, and framework in order to challenge the idea that intellectualism is more important than humanity. The Enlightenment was an era of intellectual and scientific progression in the 1800’s that encouraged reason and rationality over religion. One of the themes of Frankenstein is that the “acquirement of knowledge” is “dangerous” (Shelley 38). Frankenstein tells Walton that…

causing them to make bad decisions. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about Victor creating a creature that killed family members because of poor direction. Victor was guilty of the monsters actions because the monster was abandoned. Victor chose how he wanted the creature to act because he created it. The setting of Frankenstein took place in Victor's hometown, where all his family and friends were. Through isolation, character, and setting, Mary Shelley suggests that we can become overpowered…