Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost (Olarreaga, 1999) deals with themes of love, innocence and death and treats these subjects with subtly in terms of visual storytelling. The plot and themes are conveyed through the production design, mise-en-scène and camera placement. Focusing in on the opening sequence, the choice of camera angles presents the story as a complex melding of different character 's points of view as well as how colour and lines within the frame suggest a sense of separation and of contrast. The…

Frankenstein In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, she tells a story about a man named Victor with a vision for scientific greatness. Victor wants to create human life and play the role of God by creating a beautiful man from electricity. The problem within the book is the moral standing behind Victor’s creation. There is questions as to whether it is right in the eyes of God or if it even has a soul, or if it is just an empty shell of a man with no reason. After Victor created the…

focus on Frankenstein and how it relates to the discipline of literature. The author contends that the monster in Frankenstein is merely an allusion to Satan from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The distant relationship between the archetypal character of Satan and his Creator serve as a template for Shelley’s novel. In Paradise Lost, the audience is oddly able to identify with Satan because his “emotional needs” are not met by his own Creator. In the poem, God bestows unlimited knowledge to his…

Throughout the novel, Mary Shelley hints at the similarity of the relationship between Frankenstein and the creature, and the relationship between God and humanity in deism. Deists believe in an unreachable and distant God who created nature and humanity, then stepped out. They believe in the principle that God abandoned the world, and the laws of nature now govern humanity. Evil and corruption only enter the world when humanity fails to live up to their potential or to the laws of nature.…

Perhaps one of the most emotionally appealing themes a writer can utilize is that of the social outcast endeavoring to find its place in the world, a theme utilized to great effect by both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre despite their character’s different fates, the former featuring a supposedly monstrous creation who is ultimately rejected wholly by society and the latter an orphan child who is eventually able to carve an admittedly precarious foothold as a…

signifying "light." [Note that the name of the chief is "Luc", same etymology] Lucifer signifies "light conveyor" in Latin, and the Luciferians trust this fallen blessed messenger would bring divine information (light) to people after he was rejected from paradise by God. In the Luciferian circles, Lucifer is seen as a "friend in need" who gave to people the vital learning to achieve eternality. In the film, Lucy is a human adaptation of Lucifer since her expanded mind limit permits her to…

Through her gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley forces her audience to consider whether Victor Frankenstein should be considered a monster. Through her exploration of the romantic idea of the complexity of the human persona, as well as ideas of good and evil, Shelley reveals the monstrous characteristics of Victor, while also highlighting his redeeming features. Shelley provides an alternative villain in the character of Frankenstein’s creation. Shelley forces her audience to question what…

on several contextual factors including the date it was produced, and the author’s background. In this essay, I will be exploring the representation of femininity in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and John Milton’s Paradise Lost in relation to these factors. Milton’s Paradise Lost and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice were written around two centuries apart, the former written in the Stuart period and the latter written in the Georgian period. During both these periods in time, femininity was…

If we then view the apotheosis of Faust in the light of this typological interpretation, its function becomes more clear. It first of all underlines the tragic characteristics of Faust’s quest. Faust struggled with the powers of the universe and he lost. The fact that the angels save his soul, elevates him to the status of a hero and a divine being. It is his final ascent, just like the apotheosis of Oedipus in Kolonos is his final ascent to the realm of the gods. This pagan ending of Faust…

thrilling tale in the Victorian Age, Shelley uses methods to criticize the way women and their roles were viewed. Mary Shelley’s novel and another lambasting tale, Paradise Lost, share more than just direct references, but the same ideal premise towards a woman’s role in society and it’s twisted culture. Milton introduces Eve into Paradise Lost in Book IV of his series. She is sent by God to be Adam’s companion, “Mother of human race” (475). Immediately, she is thrown into the typical gender…