Shelley Shannon

Everyone Matters Mary Shelley utilizes many characters in her novel Frankenstein. Although the reader may believe Elizabeth, Clerval, and Walton are only minor characters, they are actually major characters. Each one fulfills a meaningful purpose in the story. These characters emphasize ideas of theme, plot, and character. Notably, Elizabeth is Shelley’s way of fulfilling her mother’s and audience’s expectation of creating a novel with a flare of feminism. Elizabeth’s death is the most…

In the novel, The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s tracks the journey of a man and boy through an unknown wasteland to an undisclosed destination. It is evident that there has been a catastrophic disaster that has obliterated the land. Skeletons and corpses line the road they travel. The reader never knows where the man and boy are going. There is a foreboding sense of resignation. very few proper names are used, the location of the story in unknown, female characbters are scarce with the exception of…

gender inequality by analyzing depictions of women in literature. When one applies a feminist lens to any given work, one intends to question and interpret ideologies in the text. Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel makes use of this type of critique, as Shelley makes her female characters passive and disposable in order to call attention to the demeaning and destructive behaviors of the male characters in the story. Not only does the novel depict patriarchal views about women, but each of the women…

Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the real Monster in Mary Shelley 's Gothic Novel Frankenstein? At first glance, the answer to this question seems quite simple but in fact; it is not. Like an onion, Frankenstein has many layers. This essay will peel away the many layers to determine who the real monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Some of the points this piece will touch upon will be Victor’s desire for admiration by his colleagues, his quest to animate a deceased human being that would allow him…

*Water Droplet sound* "..........Where am i........It's all pitch black, I can't see anything" *Water Droplet sound* "Ahh, I remember now.....I was in that garbage dump and then I saw that beggar that I wanted to help and then he pushed me in the incinerators" *Water Droplet sound* "I never helped anybody; I was scared to do so and it hurt. I was disgusted by myself for it and when I finally charge up enough courage to help somebody.....I die incinerated....with garbage" *Water Droplet…

Introduction “Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne is a novel that truly dives the reader into the center of the earth through striking portrayals, itemized clarifications, and the "eye witnessed" records of the storyteller. On the most fundamental level, Journey is an experience story, a story of the hindrances, experiences, and ponders. The unpredictable researcher Professor Hardwigg discovers headings to the center of the earth in an old book and sets out, alongside his nephew…

“The Bride” Director: Svyatoslav Podgayevsky Genre: Horror/Mystery/Thriller Screenplay: Svyatoslav Podgayevsky Producers: Vladislav Severtsev, Dmitry Litvinov, Zaur Bolotayev Starring: Victoria Agalakova, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Alexandra Rebenok, Igor Khripunov, Lada Churovskaya and Victor Solovyov. Synopsis: The new Russian horror movie “The Bride” from the director of “Estate 18” and “The Queen of Spades: The Black Ritual” unravels the terrible traditions and rituals that used to…

Transcendentalism is a movement created in the nineteenth century, influenced by romanticism, that mainly focuses on the idea of individuality and the connection between man, the universe, and nature. It was started by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an author and essayist, who lived in the 1800s. Three ideas that are important to this movement are imagination, insight, and inspiration. According to transcendentalists, these are all gifts from God and are to be regarded highly. Art, poetry, literature, and…

Name: Kabita Paudel Analytical book review: The secret history of wonder women Book author: Jill Lepore In this female comic book “The secret history of wonder women” Jill Lepore offers new insights on the Wonder woman character and her creator. The Harvard professor of American history, Jill Lepore has saved Wonder Woman from being just a beautiful character of a comic-strip written by William Moulton Marston. Lepore has depicted her as an example of first-wave feminism and also introduced…

The Fault Within “The Birthmark,” a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is stated that imperfection is, “…liability to sin, sorrow, death, and decay…” (Hawthorne 2). The short story is about a scientist, Aylmer, who strives to make his wife, Georgiana, perfect by performing scientific experiments to remove her one imperfection, a birthmark. The result is kind of like taking a picture; it is a perfect representation of a moment in time, but all the life is gone. Georgiana dies as a result of…