Shelley v. Kraemer

James Randall 10/15/14 Prof. Brinegar - ENGL 215 Short Response #2 Between the two of them, both of the characters in the works selected—Victor Frankenstein’s creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a reinterpreted Grendel from John Gardner’s Grendel—are physical, social, and philosophical outcasts of the people whom they frighten. Observing human behavior from afar and feeling kinship with them, they both desire human contact. However, the humans prove unwelcoming to the monster’s imposing…

Victor Frankenstein has created a human and now he has to slowly declare the truth to his family about his creature. Then Victor needs to control the creature and guide him meaning experimenting with the creature. Victor will need support from he’s family so he would not fail his experiment. Now that victor has created the monster he would need to tell his family the truth of his experiment so that everything would stay stabilized and prevent any problem. Victor Frankenstein created a human but…

If you had the option to bring anything -or anyone- back from the dead, would you take the opportunity knowing there’d be consequences? In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the main character Victor Frankenstein gains an obsession with discovering the secret to reanimating a corpse. His morbid obsession begins to drive him insane. His colleagues call him deranged, but no distractions deterred Victor from his fascination. He becomes very sickly and even leaves his lover and his sanity behind…

have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent” (Mary Shelley 320). What if the female mate does not love the monster back? Which will leave the monster even more vexed then he was to begin with. What if she refuses to leave also? What if he sees himself more ugly then before after looking at his look alike all of the time? When the Lacy family saw him for the first time these were their reactions “Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the…

This should be called The Wolf Man Meets Frankenstein, as the first half of the film has nothing to do with Frankenstein and focuses solely on Larry Talbot. Which I'm not complaining about. Since The Wolf Man is probably my favorite Universal monster film from that era. Though the Frankenstein monster is my favorite of the universal monsters, go figure. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is a direct sequel to the events of the Wolf Man and follows the events of The Ghost of Frankenstein. Which I…

Age of Ultron and Frankenstein go through the same trouble of creations gone wrong. Tony stark created Ultron but ended up going terribly wrong with Ultron trying to wipe out the entire country of Sokovia, and Victor Frankenstein created his monster it gone wrong and started killing all of his loved ones. Both Age of Ultron and Frankenstein share similarities and differences. The creators of Age of Ultron and Frankenstein use various literary devices like biblical allusions, characterization,…

Many individuals are so drawn into today’s society that they tend to follow others behaviors. For example, many want to fit in so they change the way they act towards anyone to do their best and show that they are able to fit in the way society is today. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein wanted to bring the dead back to life. After his experiment had finished, the creature was terrifying and ended up being rejected by society. Overtime, throughout the story Frankenstein, human…

In Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, the titular character, Prometheus is established as a saviour of man, proving the essential tool that allowed for the elevation of archaic humans to humans with the abilities to build shelter, use numbers and cure through medicine. After his defiling of Zeus, by providing humans with fire, Prometheus is sentenced to eternal punishment as he is bound to crag and Zeus eagle feast on his liver day after day. It is, through Prometheus’ interview with Ocean, that the…

At the beginning of the story it appears that Victor Frankenstein and the Creature could not be more different. Victor thinks of his creation as pure evil, but as the story progresses similarities between the two become more evident. Throughout the story both characters show their hunger for gaining knowledge, they often find themselves lonely and seek revenge on one another. The evidence in the book shows that although Victor did not create the Creature in his own image, they both possess…

Who is Igor? Yes, Igor is Dr. Frankenstein’s assistant. Except, Igor was not one of the original characters from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Over the years people have adapted the original book to fit the need for more interesting movies. In the process, they changed and added many things such as Igor, the hunched-backed assistant. How does the story in the movies differ from the story in the book? A classic example is the 1931 movie, Frankenstein, starring Borris Karloff as the Monster. A more…