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    While attending college at the University of Ingolstadt, Victor Frankenstein claimed he knew the secret to life. After putting together a creation and bringing it to life, he quickly realized it was a monster. One night, he ran out of his apartment and ran into his close friend, Henry Clerval. Returning to his apartment with his friend, he discovered the monster was gone. Feeling sick and full of fear, Victor was getting ready to return home. Before leaving the University, his father called and…

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    I read the Fantasy novel, The Unwanteds by Lisa Mcmann. The book is told from the point of view of 2 characters. Alex Stowe is one of the main characters he is an unwanted because he is very creative, Aaron Stowe is the twin of Alex and he is a wanted he is a military leader for Quill they are both 13 years old. Alex Stowe is Unwanted because of his creativity so this means he will be sent off to death, but when him and the other unwanteds arrive at the death farm it turns into this magical…

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    exploration of the polarity of human emotion; all of which are embodied in Shelley’s Frankenstein. Through reading Shelley’s novel, the ideals of Romanticism truly become clear. The inherent good in humanity is a concept utilized throughout the novel. Victor Frankenstein is born in warm Naples to a wealthy Genevan family…

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    betrayal in Frankenstein involves a reference to light. When Victor promises to make the creature a companion, the creature is overcome with joy and claims that there is a “...fire of love that burns in my heart…” ( Shelley 143). However, when Victor breaks this vow and destroys the creature’s only hope for a friend a new flame is lit. Until the day the creature dies a “...feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes…” (Shelley 206). When Victor made his promise to the creature he was a beacon…

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    close relationship with Frankenstein make his untimely death an even more jarring reminder of the immense suffering Frankenstein unintentionally brought upon his loved ones. Henry Clerval plays an important role in Frankenstein by acting as a foil to Victor Frankenstein himself. Through his actions and friendship with Frankenstein, Shelley highlights Frankenstein’s sadness, his passionate yet shortsighted devotion to science, and the pain he inflicts on others. Clerval dies an innocent man…

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    and the negatives to not living a balanced life. By creating unique character qualities and relations, Shelley was able to send a strong message. A very clear piece of advice was given by Shelley about why it is important to live a balanced life. Victor begins to ruin his life when he becomes obsessed in the creation of his monster. During the long period of time that Frankenstein is working on his creature, he grows very weak and sick. By this part of the novel, it stands out…

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    Melissa Müller’s text Anne Frank: The Biography, proves that Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s play The Diary of Anne Frank is unjustified in using dramatic license because it makes the reader confused on the role of the resistance, he or she loses the actual account of the arrest, and it also removes the feelings of the gestapo. Miep was not arrested in the annex, which questions the reader why. In the play Miep was in the country. Mr. Kraler, Miep and Mr. Frank survived and they went to…

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    persons. This type of monsters never knows exactly what it can do and what it cannot do. Last but not least, it is a subject that do not murder anyone physically, but that subject is the main cause of all of the problems. It is extremely selfish. Victor in Frankenstein is a good example of this type, who was truly villain in Frankenstein.…

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    are a few stitches Frankenstein was created by a man name ‘’Victor Frankenstein’’ he created a monstrous creature centuries ago, within the time victor brought the monster a monster Frankenstein to life. As victor was finished with his monster something strange about victor changed. He desperately brought the monster to life in an alien world, victor attempted to escape the torture of his monster. Frankenstein hides in the shadows. Victor decided to leave his home him…

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    “waking dream”, one she had while falling asleep. Under the induced hallucinations of the hypnagogic state, she envisioned a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. In her classic 1823 novel, Shelley writes about Victor Frankenstein, a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany he invents a secret formula to place life into dead organics.…

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