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    Major Themes in “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley Mary Shelley gave life to a story that has fascinated generations through centuries. She published “Frankenstein” in 1818, however this story did not fit in any genre due to its science fiction classification. Nevertheless, it did not stop the novel from becoming a success and gain recognition as a progenitor of the science fiction genre. Mary Shelley completed “Frankenstein” before she turned twenty years of age, although she grew up without a…

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    Introduction Mary Shelley successfully created two distinctive characters, the wise benevolent creator Frankenstein and the brutal ugly monster, with the form of science fiction and Gothic under the context of the 19th century mainstream culture. Distorted images of the social scene and the characters were showed in the magic mirror Mary Shelley built. The tension between good and evil, a full collision and presentation was obtained (Shelley, 163). In the previous mythology, most of the monsters…

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    Saramago by doing this book, believes that if Lucas was able to interpret and tell Jesus’ story, he believed that him too could do his own version. The story starts by telling us about young Mary, which is in Saramago’s version already married to Joseph. Then, Jesus is conceived in the most natural and carnal way. Soon enough, one of the moments that determines the future of Jesus, is the massacre of newborns by King Herod as Joseph learns…

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    We start celebrating Christmas Eve by going to Church and having the last posada, as a family. When we come back from church we gather at a family members house. There we eat our traditional food, pozole, tamales, and drink ponche. As the night goes on we joke around, play games, dance, and even sing. When midnight approaches we gather everyone to get ready to open presents and welcome baby Jesus. To conclude this is how Latin America celebrates Christmas. With our traditional pozadas, and…

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    that both male characters have an obsessive and impulsive behaviour which eventually leads their life to spiral out of control. “Mary Shelley, doubtless inspired by her mother’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, specifically portrays the consequences of a social construction of gender that values the male above the female.” (Mellor 2) In this way, the presentation of the central male characters in Frankenstein typifies the male sex as exceedingly self-absorbed and single-minded, or in other…

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    It is no doubt that the monster in Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein, is a complex character. From murdering a total of six people, three directly and three indirectly, to having hopes to be accepted by society makes the monster a two-sided character. The monster shows his good side several times in the book and then taints his image by killing an innocent person. Despite the crimes he commits, the monster connects with the readers on an emotional level. Readers are instantly attached to the…

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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic piece of literature that came to Shelley in a dream. John Polidori’s The Vampyre was also published at the same time as Frankenstein, and they both exhibit similar traits. Some of the concepts that the stories share are traveling, folklore and even sickness. To compare the two novels it is a must to start with the two storylines. The Vampyre begins in London with, "A mysterious nobleman, Lord Ruthven, makes his entrance into high society,”(Mustafa 1)…

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    The main aspect of this paper is to examine the opinions of the author of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley, on the Scientific Revolution and her criticism of the same. It can be said that this novel highlighted the issue of experimentation without sensible caveats, and that it may be important to have ethical restrictions on inventors and innovators. However, with the advantage of hindsight in the 21st century, it can also be said that since the majority of progress made by humanity has been through…

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    initially introduced by Bowlby in 1958. Edward John Bowlby was a British psychologist who was distinguished by his interest in children’s development and his revolutionary work in attachment theory which was the starting point in psychology. From Bowlby to Mary Ainsworth who was a developmental psychology known for her experiment The strange situation. There are different ways in which we attach to the people in their lives and how we categorise the types of attachment. The main study that…

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    The cultural period known as “Romanticism” arose at the end of the eighteenth and was characterized by radical changes in intellectual, artistic, and social patterns. It is generally understood as concluding in the early nineteenth century. It reflected revolutions in America and France, but also England in the form of the Industrial revolution. These dramatic changes in the world were mirrored, in turn, by significant developments in poetry, prose, and fiction. Although it may be said that…

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