Percy Elland

The Score I feel so ashamed, so, so damned ashamed. How can my body betray me? Pleasure in the midst of an assault? How is this shit even possible? Salty tears rolls down my face. I wrap my legs around his waist and dig my nails into his back holding on for dear life. My core tighten, contracts, threatens to snap his monstrous appendage. I see stars bright beautiful magnificent stars. I quake, brain turns to mush. I die a thousand little deaths.I experience what has to be the most earth…

One Is Not Always One Does one incident ever really matter? The American Civil War lasted a little over four years with an estimated fifty major battles, so it may appear odd that any single battle can be the sole reason one side prevails over the other. Yet, the Battle of Gettysburg is often considered the turning point of the war and a prime reason why the Union won the war. Some tests in school can have over fifty questions, so it seems mathematically implausible that one question, which…

Published in 1868, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is a science-fiction novel written by Jules Verne. This novel talks about the importance of trust and teamwork. The plot of the novel is about the underwater journey of three men and their life-changing incidents. The author revolves this plot around four main characters and has and an interesting theme. This book starts out by talking about a mysterious sea creature that has damaged many ships. Even though many expeditions were sent, the creature…

Terrific Art Direction While Fallout 4 by no means is a graphical powerhouse; its overall art direction is absolutely stunning. In my opinion, there are few--if any--other companies doing destroyed quite as beautifully as Bethesda. As a result of the stellar art direction, each location you explore in The Commonwealth seems unique and visually tells its own self-contained story. For example; in your travels you will stumble upon the skeletal remains of a gentleman's club whose members committed…

Shrek Don’t judge a book by its cover I find the character Shrek from the movie Shrek a really neglected character, as and ogre, the audience and the village people in the movie are pruned to believing he’s a bad, discussing, mean and emotion less beast, but throughout the story he begins to change our negative aspect of him into good aspects. Even though the village people in the place Shrek lives in believe he is an ugly and cruel beast, Shrek still proved to them he isn’t that bad in the…

Frankenstein Man’s natural state, according to the philosophical pioneer Rousseau, is inherently good. Unadulterated by corrupt influences, man’s innate response is to do all things right, including keeping one’s duties. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” solidifies this theory of a native righteousness in humanity, and provides the character of Dr. Frankenstein as a soul soiled by society, specifically his family. Victor Frankenstein, born into a wealthy, loving family, appears to be nurtured within…

Like Batman, many antiheroes all have a sad or messed up backstory that made them who they are right now. There are antiheroes who have been betrayed or turned against them, being tested on which involved into a lab accident which mutated them, and antiheroes who seek out revenge to specific individuals that ruined their life. Most antiheroes are lone-wolves and they usually have bad habits like smoking and being an alcoholic and are willing to kill the villain. An anti-hero who fits all of…

Snakes: A misunderstood Villain Sssssssssssssssss…. Doesn’t this sound make you cringe? The twisting and contorting body of the lengthy creature as it stalks its unknowing prey in the tall grass. In a split second the serpent pierces its prey with its venomous fangs, injecting paralyzing venom. Its prey can only sits with this poison coursing through its veins. It is forced to watch as it is devoured still breathing and alive. Is this act so wrong? I contend that it is not. A creature’s…

‘Frankenstein intertextuality The novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and Satan’s soliloquy from Book 4 of John Milton’s Paradise Lost share ideas regarding the role societal rules play in the expulsion of outsiders. In Frankenstein, the society does not give the monster a chance. The monster decides to adapt a disregard for societal values and begins killing people. In Paradise Lost Satan is outcast from Heaven and decides to become the antithesis of God. He makes Hell his kingdom and…

Among the definitions of a monster in The New Oxford American Dictionary, an inhumanly cruel or wicked person is particularly interesting as it uses the word person. After all, a person is a human being. Also as defined in The New Oxford American Dictionary, human is being susceptible to weakness as well as possessing qualities of kindness and sensitivity. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the dark story of a brilliant scientist who creates life from human parts, prompts the reader to decide…