Shelley Shannon

Marry Shelley has had a great influence on countless authors, thanks to her novel Frankenstein. Published in 1818, Frankenstein is a celebrated classic about a scientist who loses everything. Set in Europe, in the 18th century,Victor Frankenstein is determined to create a new race of super humans. He creates a creature and immediately rejects his creation. The creature sets out to make his creator 's life miserable, and destroy all those he loves. Frankenstein makes countless mistakes…

In the book, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is a mad scientist who gathers human corpses’ body parts which he acquired from charnel houses and graveyards. He composes a creature so hideous that he himself refrains from being anywhere near him. Everyone is frightened of the creature and the creature realizes that it is because of his appearance. He reminisces how even Frankenstein – his creator, his God – ran away from him. The creature feels rejected and promises to exact…

Monster, along with devil, demon, and other sickening names, where the closest thing to a true identity that the creature received. "Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room," (Shelley 43) Frankenstein had abandoned his creation before even naming him, leaving him clueless as to what he was, who he was, and why he came to existence. As for what he was, monster, was an unknown title, he was a being with the ability to sense strange…

life is often detrimental to their health and life. Through my reading of Frankenstein, I came across a passage that spoke so deeply to me, “Elizabeth, her tears and endless sorrow when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pp. 117). I can just imagine the horror she would feel having her lover taken from her by a hideous monster have her lose interest in living, be similar to the pain of my father losing his wife, often asking himself “what is my…

Yet through Victor’s use of electricity and bringing dead things back to life, he did, in a way, bring some light into the world. In addition to physical light, it can also be a metaphor for knowledge. Victor quotes: “I ardently desire knowledge” (Shelley pg. 70). He then fervently studied that latest science and took action. Whether his work ended up actually being good or not, the experiment and trial of creating a new being in itself gave a better understanding of the capabilities of mankind…

Huge hairy beasts that crave human flesh, demons from the underworld that prowl the dark corners of the universe, and unhuman-like creatures out for blood are the types of immortal beings the Anglo-Saxons believe monsters to be. To the Anglo-Saxons, a monster is the main source of evil that can ruin a person through its terror and rage. In modern day English, a monster is described as someone who has done evil and goes out of their way to terrorize the public. Although it is the same word, there…

Creators’ Life Depicted in Death Imagery The imagery used in the films of Wolf Children, Grave of the Fireflies, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to visually engage the themes of life and death within the constructs of their respective stories. The creators of these worlds of art, whether it be the; writer, director, animator, or another member of the team, shape the final product through their skill and their personal experiences. The artists’ personal experiences that help motivate…

Kaylynn Linck Ms. Ferguson English H 12/7/15 Lurky Ocean The Ocean by: Nathaniel Hawthorne is a well written poem. I chose this particular piece because I find it interesting that it focuses on the fact that something so mystical, and beautiful as the ocean can appear, there's alway misfortune; This lead to the conclusion on why I titled it Lurky Ocean. The Ocean has its pros and cons, most of us have great memories spending hot sunny days laying on the beach, listening to the waves crashing,…

The Egyptian kings and queens were buried, in the Deir- el bahri located in the west bank of the Nile. Among the pharaohs were a few mummies, which could not be identified and was aside letter of the alphabets to them. The coffin in which unknown man E was buried into was examined once he was removed. The coffin appeared to have wood shaving inside, which in tells that coffin was enlarge to accommodate the body of unknown man E. This discovery clearly shows that this coffin was not intended…

Flowey: Good Guy or Bad Guy? Who Is Flowey? Flowey is a flower monster from the wonderful world of Undertale. He was created when the scientist Alphys Tried to give monsters Determination, but it ended up failing so she decided to get rid of the Determination by pouring it on a flower therefore making Flowey, born without a soul. In the game he is one of the biggest enemies, but what if there is more to this friendliness pellet shooting flower? See these are all variants of that ‘nice…