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    irresponsible Victor Frankenstein and the vengeful but, compassionate monster. Both main characters, Victor and his monster, need someone to make them feel secure of themselves: Frankenstein needing a sense of balance of sanity, and the monster wanting someone he can relate with. Men believe they can do anything making themselves think they’re immortal, like Victor Frankenstein. He puts off love and friendship from those who are close to him, making science…

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    Many students and critics believe that Victor Frankenstein is a bad person for trying to play god and not taking responsibility for his creation and overall abandoning his problems and making everything worse. In this novel, there are moments of people that are very nurturing and moments that show complete abandonment the option of nurturing someone in the time of need. Some of the best cases of nurturing people come at the beginning of the novel with Victor 's parents and Justine Moritz, the…

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    conflict that will contribute to the overall meaning of the work. Victor and his father’s relationship was strained from the beginning, due to the father’s and society’s expectations for Victor to become a respectable man in which Victor’s thirst of breaking the boundaries between death and life went against the presumption expected of him. The clash of personalities between the two men led to the creation of a monster that Victor abandoned, and due to his actions of abandonment it led to…

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    to fame rapidly all over the real world that, while reading the classic, forced all of us to notice his perseverance when faced with adversity and how he overcame the problems that were instantly imposed on him upon his first breath of life. After Victor noticed how his creation was a repulsive visage, he fled promptly and left the creature all alone with a newborn baby mindset inside of a matured, superhuman-like body. In chapter 5, Schelly described the creature as “yellow skin scarcely…

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    Insanity In Frankenstein

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    Frankenstein Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein is a dramatic novel revolving around despair, vanity, and revenge. Victor Frankenstein, a depressed scientist, created a grotesque new life form from his infatuation with the sciences. Using dead body parts from both humans and animals, Victor assembled a new human life form by passing electricity through the body he created. By combining bits and pieces of different humans and animals, Frankenstein created a being that was very conflicted about the…

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    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This quote was written by George Orwell in his book Animal Farm, one of Orwell’s most famous novels. Throughout history the subject of a distant dystopia has always been explored in many works of literature. The possibility of humanity falling into a bleak and totalitarian society has always fascinated readers. These stories and themes can come to define an author and their legacy as a writer. There is no greater example of…

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    “Metamorphosis” is a novella written by Franz Kafka and published in 1915. It is about a story of Gregor Samsa, the protagonist, who awakes one morning from a dream and finds himself transformed into a gigantic insect. “Metamorphosis” is divided into three chapters: the first chapter is about the transformation and reaction of Gregor, the second chapter is about the family tries to accommodate him after his transformation and the final chapter is about the family ignores his existence until his…

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    Frankenstein, a book written by Mary Shelley interconnects social genders, social isolation, and how we identify and react to the deconstruction. Frankenstein was initially trying to play God and the result was creating a monster. As gender would show it he thought of himself with the highest intellect, but he never thought about the consequences. Frankenstein created a monster that he left, abandon, and socially disconnects himself from to be in the world on his own, with no direction. It was…

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    explores various aspects of human nature and the choices related to them. The story revolves around Victor Frankenstein, who in his thirst for knowledge and to explore the unknown mysteries of nature, gives life to a creature who eventually becomes the cause of his destruction. The storyline of this novel is easily understandable but it achieved its complexity from having multiple narrators, Victor being one of them. Although Victor’s narration of his life story influenced Walton, but it was…

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    much knowledge, has the power to ruin one's life. After Victor conducted his experiment, he realized the horror of his results, which deeply shattered his original expectations. Following the experiment, Victor’s life had slowly fallen apart, and was never the same again. Consequently, what Victor discovered from his experiment redefined his overall perception of reality. The expectations versus reality of the experiment Victor Frankenstein orchestrated demonstrated how that…

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