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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…

In the most prominent stories of ancient Greece, much of which acts as the cornerstone of Western literature, the heroes battle monsters, sorcerers and even gods themselves. However, the most climatic part of most stories occurred when the heroes were forced to suffer from their own hubris. Overs and over again, from Icarus to Arachne to Niobe and Cassiopeia and on, their pride lead to their own demise. All around the world, the fear of one’s pride being one’s ultimate downfall has prompted…

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…

Every child dreams of exploring a deserted island, yet William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores the dark reality of such an event. After a plane crash, the only passengers to survive are a group of young British school boys. They wash up on the deserted island with no grownups in sight. Throughout the novel, Golding uses symbolic characters to utilize Societal structure. Firstly, Golding expresses a range of evil and savagery acts that led Jack to represent the Devil. Secondly, throughout…

Throughout one's lifetime one has found discerning facilities and similarities between two stories that have been read, to take count of this statement some examples are the epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer, and the biblical narrative, In the Beginning by Mosses because these two significant historical praised illustrations mainly concentrated on the theme of temptation being dreadful for one with the main characters of the story. Furthermore, a temptation is directed in these two stories by the…

The monster’s own childhood is riddled with despair and loneliness, neglected from the paternal involvement that develops a child mentally, emotionally and physically. The monster is forced to be autodidactic, understanding the world only through other people’s reactions towards him. The monster’s only source of true human contact and learning is through the De Lacey family. His learnings lead him to understand that man is “at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and…

The Silmarillion is a fantasy epic by J. R. R. Tolkien that plunges you into a world full of the rich histories of the people that live there. Furthermore; it is a collection of five consecutive works; the Ainulindale, the Valaquenta, the Quenta Silmarillion, the Akkallabeth, and the section of the rings of power and the third age. The Ainulindale brings you into the mist of Eru Illuvatar and his holy ones the Ainur. At once the Ainur begin singing Ea (the universe) into existence. Nevertheless;…

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, epic simile is frequently used to create elaborate and sweeping comparisons that contribute to a character’s development. In Book IX, Milton compares Eve to a list of goddesses by writing “To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorned / Likest she seemed Pomona when she fled / Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime / Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove” (393-6). This comparison constitutes as a epic simile because it spans multiple lines and goes into great detail. One thing that…

The Secret Science Alliance: and the copycat crook The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook is a beautiful graphic novel created, written, and drawn by Eleanor Davis (inked by Drew Weing, colored by Joey Weiser and Michele Chidester, and lettered by Bryant Paul Johnson). This beautifully crafted novel tells the story of three “unlikely friends” coming together and forming strong friendships through their shared passion for science and inventing! The main character, Julian Calendar, is…

In this passage, Baglioni describes his medical enemy once again as he visits Giovanni in his apartment. He wishes to prevent Rappaccini from carrying out his experiments as they merely hurt mankind. Interestingly, Baglioni describes the scientist as a “wonderful man” (309). Perhaps science has caused Rappaccini to become the vile individual who does not value mankind. Through this passage, Hawthorne uses the words of Baglioni to indirectly state his feelings concerning Rappaccini. Hawthorne…