Mary Catherine Bateson

“Madness is like gravity all you need is a little push” (Nolan). As the Joker suggests in the previous quote, madness is in everything, movies, books, plays, and even real life. It’s a classic news headline about people who received the “little push” and did something crazy. It also appears in most gothic literature because it’s a classic convention for there to be "mad" men or a villain who lacks all emotion and acts in irrational ways throughout the story line. The “mad” man adds an element…

Even though she did not get banished from her town, Abigail seeks revenge just as Ursula did. Mary Warren comes to the courthouse to testify that she has not seen spirits and, “none of [Abigail and her friends] have seen these things either” (515). After hearing that she might lose her power, Abigail seeks vengeance on Mary. Just as Ursula tries to take King Triton’s daughter, Abigail tries to take Mary Warren’s freedom by accusing her of coinciding with the devil. Abigail also seeks revenge…

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…

Plagrism free Introduction Romanticism commenced in England with the guide of the primary edition of the “Lyrical Ballads” (1798), it was the joint paintings of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.It turned into an inventive, literary, musical and intellectual motion that originated in Europe. Romanticism emphasis on emotion and individualism in addition to glorification of all of the beyond and nature It changed into partially a response to the economic Revolution. Old English…

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…

Christopher Nolan’s Inception has an ending that will make any viewer want to become a mathematician and try to solve the equation of the ending. If the spinning top fall or not. Now after we finished the film we were angry at the ending but amazed at the same time. If his in dream state or in reality, now this film make you have sleep-less nights thinking if the spinning top falls. Now the idea about the ending is that we were the audience to the whole dream and the end was a kick back to…

monster, Victor Frankenstein, has all of the negative attributes that are commonly associated with the creature. Victor Frankenstein was selfish, hostile, and ignorant towards his creation and also for those who cared for him. The fact that the novel by Mary Shelley used his name as the title acts as a warning light before the novel is even opened, showing that Frankenstein is a character to closely follow throughout the whole story. These aspects that define Victor Frankenstein give evidence…

The nineteenth century in France was one of the most progressive and transformative eras for literature, science, medicine, architecture, and social and political change. Émile Zola made progressive moves in the second half of the nineteenth century in many ways. Zola was born in 1840, in Paris, he has spend most of his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. Zola lost his father at a young age, just like many of his characters that he would later write about in this novels. He was raised by his mother…

Research by John Lanska and Douglas Lanska (2012) stated that the disease was first described by John Todd in 1955. They mentioned that Todd named it after Lewis Carroll who fabricated the story of "Alice in Wonderland". The disease was named after the story because the character Alice fell into an abyss that was a portal to another world where eating and drinking can make you miniature or gargantuan. The effect of AIWS is similar. It can stimulate headaches and visual perceptions such as…