Proud Mary

Frankenstein’s speech contradicts his previous dangerously ambitious and irresponsible actions. His speech promotes heroics and sublimity, two major values of the Romantic poet. Reading Frankenstein as a criticism of the Romantic poets who surrounded Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is a failed Romantic who takes Shelley’s contemporaries’ ideals too far. Shelley highlights the hypocrisy of this failed Romantic through Frankenstein’s uncharacteristic and ironic rhetoric and through his contradictory…

Frankenstein is Mary Shelley’s famous novel, written in 1817 when she was 18 years old. Throughout the book, Mary Shelley uses the monster to emphasize the importance of communication and the consequences it has on people. It seem that if people willing to use language and words to deal with problems, there won’t be any misunderstanding, violence, vengeance, and lead to a tragedy. The monster is abandoned by Frankenstein right after his accomplishment. There is no one around him to teach him,…

Justice for Injustice In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor’s actions are unforgettable. Even when Proctor wrongs his beloved wife when he cheats on Elizabeth with Abigail, he confesses to the and puts himself in shame, as he foresees. Proctor knows of some unknown “witchery” and feels as if he needs to bring justice to his town that’s being torn down to pieces from these witch trials. Proctor is first seen as a man of lies and sins and his unworthiness of the people. But, when he…

Judge Danforth, with all due respect, are you really going to believe some foolish little girls with a grudge to hold? If you are then there is something really wrong with you. In fact, I think there is something really wrong with our entire society! Our society is based completely on the good word of God, yet you are taking His word and twisting it into something completely evil. You are trying to hang young, innocent and really family oriented women all because they were accused of being…

On 11 March 1818, the legendary literature masterpiece, Frankenstein, was released to the public by none other than Mary Shelley. Her story has ultimately changed the way humanity views life and is a true testament to the capability of the human mind and will never be forgotten. The monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is rarely addressed as a harmless creature and one would find it hard to believe that Creature could be anything other than the antagonist. Although, when Creature tells his…

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is told from the perspective of Captain Robert Walton who is en route to the North Pole. He encounters a nearly frozen man named Victor Frankenstein, who then proceeds to tell Walton his life’s story. Victor tells Walton of his peaceful childhood, his obsession with natural philosophy, and how that obsession evolved into a love for chemistry and biology. Victor became consumed with determining the secret of life and spent two years working to create life…

Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, “he writes of his wish to ‘mingle’ his ‘soul’ with the mountains, the ocean and the stars,” (Shaw). In this poem Byron shows a great interest in the connection between the terrifying aspects of nature and human beings. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, an under lying subtext is “society’s valorization of beautiful” (Fredricks). The creature in this story is ostracized because of its appearance and the only place he is safe and can voice his struggle is in sublime…

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…

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…

making Mary Warren testify, explaining that the young girls are just pretending to see spirits and that no witchcraft is actually present. Danforth suspects John and asks him if he has “‘any desire to undermine this court?’” (210). Presuming that John as negative motives. Fortunately, the protagonist that is John Proctor says no. John only wants the judges to see the whole situation clearly and see the truth that is behind Abigail’s lies, hopefully saving his wife in the process. When Mary…