Mary Wollstonecraft

Phillips wrote to cope with her emotions just as Mary Shelly however, instead of fictional stories she wrote poetry which was exclusively praised among a private community of writers she belonged to. Also like Shelly, Phillips only had one child survive past infancy. She wrote a poem, On the Death of…

creation, that being will undoubtedly become a monster.” (Rosenberger 1). The juxtaposition of the goods and bads of technology forces people to gauge if technology is actually helping or hurting mankind. Mary Shelley is against the advancement of technology. Shelley fears that technology is monstrous. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein she shows her opinions on science and technology and how it negatively affects society.…

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley can be argued to be a very relatable as well as relevant piece of literature from the early 1800s because of the issues our society as a whole undertakes. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, holds the place of a scientist who uses his brilliant skills to create a living creature of his own. Shelly uses theme, motif…

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…

Human or Monster?:The Paradox of Frankenstein Humans are animals with a higher level of intellect and emotion that live in an organized society or community and have the ability to think about the future and self-reflect. In Mary Shelley 's gothic novel Frankenstein, the reader sympathizes with the grotesque creature as he humanly learns about the world around him and attempts to live contently in an oppressive society. However, Frankenstein’s barbaric characteristics represent the tragic…

People build their characters such as humanity and personality through their experience. Mary Shelley describes in Frankenstein how the creator and the creature are built through their experience by having a story of conflict between Victor Frankenstein, the creator, and the creature. There are parts where it shows how Victor has no responsibility and no moral while the creature possess responsibility and moral. Through this story, we are able to see theme of revenge and nature vs. nurture.…

The Palace of Illusions , written by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Panchaali's (Draupadi’s) point of view , namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. It is narrated by Paanchali herself, who is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. It follows Paanchali’s life from a fiery birth and a childhood spent in loneliness, where she only had her…

Frankenstein: The Result of Too Much Ambition The 1818 story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the story of Victor Frankenstein and his over desire to create life from death. After having a normal upbringing, Victor’s life turns upside down when his creature creates more problems than expected. It’s a story of caution, as that begins in the present and flashes back to see where Victor went wrong. The book has many themes, one of the biggest being ambition. It asks, when is too much ambition…

motherhood and parenthood but also adapts and changes the universal concept of these themes. The universal concept of motherhood in the 18th century was the care-taker, educator and punisher, the mother had little else to do besides caring for the children. Mary Shelley lost her mother due to post-natal complications and thus was raised by her father and later step-mother, exhibiting her own tragic understanding of motherhood as well as her the loss of several of her own children. Her own tragic…

Overview of the Crank Trilogy The books that I chose to do my report on were the Crank trilogy, Crank, Glass, and Fallout, by Ellen Hopkins. Crank was published in 2004, Glass was published in 2007, and the last book, Fallout came out in 2013. Ellen Hopkins wrote these books when she had a personal experience when her daughter, Kristina, started using "the monster" after she met the wrong person. She wrote the books to help herself understand why her daughter did it, then she realized that…