Mary Read

Isabel is the main character in Laurie Halse Anderson's book, Chains. When first introduced Isabel is very caring. The person that she especially cares for is her younger sister, Ruth. When Isabel and Ruth arrive in New York their new owner, Madam Lockton, starts to make a fuss about a soldier checking her trunk. Ruth thinks that this is funny, so she starts to laugh at Madam Lockton. Madam gets very angry at her and wants to know who was laughing. Isabel tells her that she was the one who did…

Throughout much of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the “monster” created is presented in his utter inhumanity. Even his creator looks on him as a wretch; a fiend. His horrid appearance and hideous voice are thought to set him apart from society. Recognizing his rejection, the creation hides away from the world into which he was brought, and lives in solitary. One could argue, though, that Frankenstein represents many of the most basic and carnal instincts of the human person. Deep within…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley started writing her best-known novel at the age of eighteen. This novel is Frankenstein, written in 1818. Frankenstein is a classic gothic tale of fright, suffering, and preoccupation that tell a tragic story of Victor Frankenstein and is set in the time period of 17--. Shelley utilizes the theme of society rejecting monstrosity by using tone, symbolism, and the arrangement of the novel. Mary demonstrates tone in the theme of society rejecting monstrosity by…

Frankenstein’s Monster Bibliotherapy In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, the education of Frankenstein’s Creature comes chiefly from the four books he read: Milton’s Paradise Lost, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, and Volney’s The Ruins. Reading these books, though increasing the Creature’s knowledge base, has a negative impact on his personality, making him despise the vices of mankind. There are other works that may have changed the…

The Crucible Essay In The Crucible, Arthur Miller was successful on educating readers about history and encouraging them to not make the same mistakes of the past. The McCarthy era was more of an ideological war, meaning an idea that scared people to death, rather than a real war. The major issue that happened in Salem is that people were falsely accused of being witches when there was no real evidence of witchcraft. I believe that Arthur Miller did a sound job of getting his readers to…

The story of a creation cast down to a (both literal and metaphorical) hell is the basis of both John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It is of no coincidence that the novel Victor’s monster comes upon and reads is Paradise Lost - from it the monster is able to find some kinship in a fictional tortured soul much like him who lost the safety of their creator’s realm and was thus left to essentially rot alone. The monster’s story echoes in many ways the story of Adam and the…

On 11 March 1818, the legendary literature masterpiece, Frankenstein, was released to the public by none other than Mary Shelley. Her story has ultimately changed the way humanity views life and is a true testament to the capability of the human mind and will never be forgotten. The monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is rarely addressed as a harmless creature and one would find it hard to believe that Creature could be anything other than the antagonist. Although, when Creature tells his…

In an attempt to clear his mind, Victor goes alone to Montanvert. Momentarily he finds peace, but it is very short lived when he come face to face with the daemon her created. The monster tells him the trials and tribulations that he has endured in life. The monster says to Victor “Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” (ch.10) In this instance the monster is ultimately placing the burden of his actions onto Victor’s shoulders. Not only did…

At the first read The Modern Prometheus may appear a peculiar name for a book such as Frankenstein. This is because a scientist who brings life to a creature who becomes set to destroy him and a Greek Titan that gave mankind fire. One must delve a little deeper to reveal the truth behind the name and how Mary Shelley cleverly intertwined one of the most famous Greek myths with what was to become one of the most well known Gothic books of all time, Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus.Though…

during the, the industrial revolution provided more jobs for the working class and experience that would allow them to enhance their reading skills (Class Discussion). The Newgate Calendar was later introduced around 1830, a series of short, easy to read stories. These stories were specifically written to satisfy the working class as they were written about thrilling and captivating crime stories, which was also intended to hinder the acts of crime by demonstrating their consequences.…