Sandra St. Victor

For my site visit, I visited the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. It is located at 12 Millstone Campus Drive in St. Louis, Missouri. I am extremely happy that I was able to do this visit here. I have always been very interested in the Holocaust and am always open to learning more about it. By doing the site visit here I was able to better understand the background information and what all goes into preparing a museum for visitors to come visit. I learned a lot and while I was there, the…

The Wainwright building is the most superior looking building in St. Louis because it was the most important ten-story skyscraper designed by the magnificent architect, Sullivan. Sullivan always wanted to put people in shock with his creativity plans he never wanted people to feel boring as if they aren’t starring at…

The Missouri State Penitentiary was the second largest prison in the nation. It was very harsh and the other inmates were criminals. They were there for murder, theft, and lots of other horrible things. The inmates were cruel to each other and hated the guards. There were lots of different people there for many different reasons. There were even famous criminals there. In 1954 there was a riot that broke out and was chaos. There were people that escaped from here. There is a lot of history that…

his life story to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, in the ice caves of Mount Blanc the reader sees the wretched monster in a new light. Creature is awoken into the world by a Victor and unlike the story of man, his creator disowns him, and Creature is forced…

believe is success, but at the end of the day their influence could only get us so far. As we grow we begin to understand that we must make decisions that will eventually establish the human beings we are. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is a young and curious doctor who inadvertently creates a monster. The monster, who remains unnamed, begins to feel condemned after Frankenstein expresses signs of contempt towards it. Frankenstein’s hatred for his creation fuels…

Reading is active attempt to try and figure what lies between two covers of a book. When a reader reads a story and the novel is told a from a first person point of view they are able to understand that character. The reader gets an understanding of how this character is feeling and maybe even form ideas about why the character may feel this particular way. Evil, determined, isolated- these are a few words to describe some characters in this story. In the narrative, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley,…

Music in the Movies: Comatose-Relaxation in Young Frankenstein (1974) In Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein (1974), Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) inherits his famous great grandfather’s (Victor Frankenstein) castle in Transylvania, and soon finds his hidden private library. In this library, Dr. Frankenstein stumbles upon his great grandfather’s lab notebooks that fully explain how he was able to reanimate life in a reconstructed corpse. Intrigued by his great grandfather’s work, Dr. Frankenstein…

science fiction. Describe the author’s style Mary Shelley utilizes a frame story which was popular in the Romantic period. The purpose of it was to provide the reader with more than one narrator. The reader could have viewpoints of both Frankenstein and Victor. Shelley also included allusions which showed her vast intelligence on many other…

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, may not exactly qualify as a “hero,” but is still a fitting figure for a piece of literary advice. Thomas Foster advises to “never stand next to the hero,” well in this case, the characters in Frankenstein should, “never stand next to the main character.” In Victor Frankenstein’s story, he is shaped from an early age by the people that surround him. He then in turn desires to shape and create another life all on his own.…

Frankenstein was a man obsessed. By the age of thirteen, his fascination with finding the key to immortality had already overtaken his thoughts. In this pursuit, he viewed himself as one of the greatest scientists, equal to Isaac Newton and his successors. He believed he could not fail: any inadequacy would be attributed to his lack of experience. He ultimately isolated himself to work solely on his experiments, as “[his] mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose,” (49)…