Sandra St. Victor

Modern Feminism has various strands of thinking as different factions of criticism strive to explain the world. Gregory Castle says, “What all of these women have in common is an interest in exposing patriarchal forms of power as the cause of the unequal and subordinate status of women in Western societies” (96). In particular, Susan Gilbert and Susan Gubar comment on the characters women must assume in literature, offering the three roles of angel, witch, and, less common, ghost. These…

highlight the fact that people always have a choice. A choice to be happy or sad, enthusiastic or reluctant, lazy or hardworking, and good or evil. Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley, talks about an overly obsessed and enthusiastic scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates life and then shuns the creature due to its hideous physical appearance. The creature’s initial benevolent and loving nature is eroded by the harsh treatment from society, causing it to become an abominable wretch…

In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist whose thirst for knowledge and discovery leads to his creation of life from death. This story takes place during the Enlightenment era in Geneva, Switzerland. Frankenstein is written as a set of three different stories. Robert Walton, the Arctic sailor introduced at the beginning of the novel, writes letters to his sister regarding the story of Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein tells the story of his…

The monster of which Frankenstein creates possesses many similar actions to those of a child. He portrays actions and thoughts of impatience, questions of morality, and tantrums. Viewing the creature as if it were a child would alter the visions a reader perceives because his statements and actions would be considered unreasonable and immature. The monster elaborates to Frankenstein; the assault he committed to the man, “At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a…

Perhaps one of the most emotionally appealing themes a writer can utilize is that of the social outcast endeavoring to find its place in the world, a theme utilized to great effect by both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre despite their character’s different fates, the former featuring a supposedly monstrous creation who is ultimately rejected wholly by society and the latter an orphan child who is eventually able to carve an admittedly precarious foothold as a…

In this passage from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor is overcome with disgust and horror at the sight of the creature he has reanimated. Consumed with fear, Victor decides to “seek a few moments of forgetfulness” (Shelley 35) and falls asleep. In his dreams he envisions his lover, Elizabeth transforming into his dead mother. Victor wakes from his nightmare with a start, only to face another one in real life. Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein is often interpreted as a response to the…

Is one born to kill? In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature, known by no true name, is brought to life by the protagonist of the story, Victor Frankenstein. Upon seeing what he has created, Frankenstein flees, leaving the creature to fend for himself. While trying to survive, the creation endeavors to make friends, but his attempts are only met with violence. Since the creature is shunned by society, and he is refused any sort of happiness, the creature is the true victim of the novel. The…

too far. Victor Frankenstein is a young student of science who aspire of finding the secret to creating life. After gazing upon his creation he is horrified by what he had done thus setting off a chain of miseries in his life. The novel comprise of Victor and his creation narrative. Both dealing with their own misfortunes and blaming the others wickedness. Victor Frankenstein is the true monster because of the cold and superficial ways he treated his friends, family, and creation. Victor shows…

book “Frankenstein” you will see at the beginning of the book a scientist named victor whose dream is to create a human like creature out of body parts from other people. Well you could say it was a success, but the monster was not like he expected and wanted to get rid of it. So for the next months to come, victor changes from a scientist to a hunter. Then the creature becomes a true monster to the cottagers and victors close friends and family, by killing and terrorizing them. The next…

In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien suggests that the war itself changes a person, the changes could be negative or positive. The negative effect is the war is like a disease that takes over your body and reorganizes everything inside you making the outer layers of you to be unrecognizable to people. For instance, when Tim talks about Lemon fear of the dentist and how he got over the fear: "...something about dentists that just gave him the creeps ....Lemon kept insisting, so the man…