Percy Elland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein. Throughout Victor’s young life he has been fascinated with several different forms of the sciences. He has a great knowledge in this area, and this leads to him having arrogance in his abilities. After Victor sees a tree struck by lightning he decides to study Galvanism. Victor spends years going to the slaughter house and gathering pieces for his creation. Victor worries more about if he can do this, rather than if…

Throughout Frankenstein by Mary Shelley readers see many aspects in which the main character Victor has little feelings toward family, friends or the creature. In Frankenstein, the most monstrous aspect of Victor's character is his lack of remorse or caring for things that an emotional human being typically cares about. The Author argues that these negative elements are detrimental in society because one must have sympathy in order to feel emotions toward one another. In Volume 1 of Frankenstein…

Berry !1Grace BerryMr. BlevinsHon. English 211-05-15Virtues and Vices and the Struggle Between Nature vs Nurture"Virtue is found at the margins of society more often than at its center," (F.E.). Virtue isexemplified in Mary Shelley's monster more so than in his creator, Victor Frankenstein. Societyportrays the creature as an ugly, green, bumbling fool, who likes to destroy things and has nocapacity for knowledge. In actuality Mary Shelley's character is a kind eloquent creature,wrongly treated…

"I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." (pg. 12) Walton wrote this in his first letter to his sister. Frankenstein has a great passion for chemistry and try to find a way to bring the dead back to life. He accomplishes this but his creation looks like a monster and then because to feel like an outcast and begins to destroy and get…

The first computer program was being designed by a woman titled Lovelace in the early 1800’s. The life and legacy of Ada Lovelace play an important role in the development of computer science, however she remains highly unrecognized. Coming from a separated home, Lovelace’s early tutoring, passion for mathematics, aiding of Charles Babbage in creating the first early computer program, and divided ideals gave her a very interesting story and major role in history. Lovelace’s parents are equally…

don’t even think about the consequences. For example, when a child wants a new toy, they will do everything in their power to get the toy and neglect it once their tired of it without much considerations and thinking about their actions. Furthermore, this scene shows that Victor did not intend to make something evil, he was just immaturely following his wants without much thought. Similar to Victor the creature would do what he wants to get want he wants as well. For example he would threat…

In his work, A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind, Jean Jacques Rousseau sets the stage by describing man in the State of Nature, much like his predecessors did. However, he presents a very different image of pre-political man than Hobbes or Locke, describing the State of Nature as the absolute happiest that man can get. Starting off the first part of the Second Discourse, Rousseau describes the natural man as modern man without all our mental…

How Fake is “Fake” Writing? When you enter the room, it is pitch black, save for the eerie blue light emitting from a laptop on what looks to be a bed, but it’s hard to make it out from your position by the door. On the bed, you can see several boxes of Chinese takeout. In front of the laptop, you can make out the image of a young girl, huddled into the blankets so that she looks like a cocoon. Aside from her face, the only other part of her body emerging from the blanket were her hands,…

Mary shelley uses heavy imagery, tone and diction go create a horror felt passage. She carefully describes the setting of where freaking stein was when he created life itself. “It was a dreary night of November quote, is pier imagery in automatically setting in Erie tone. Also describing how he slept and had a beautiful dream that was interrupted when “…I thought that I held the course of my dead mother in my arms…”. Shelley also at in negative introduction to create the pervasive atmosphere…

Looking at a picture of familiar face makes me wonder, how these obvious details so clear to me are blurred in others eyes. Some might see his face as beautiful, while the image stabs my eyes with knives. A pain. A pain that has grown with time. A pain that doesn’t disappear. The picture of this man doesn’t depict what he has done to our family, it doesn’t convey how he threw us away for a materialistic want. His eyes are shallow. Is he human? Does he show love for anything other than the…