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    As the creator of the creature, Dr. Frankenstein chooses to turn it away and destroys the female monster that is the last happiness the creature can have which lead the creature kills other people and his family. Before Dr. Frankenstein created the creature, he called himself father of it. Surprisingly, Dr. Frankenstein decides to abandon his “child” at the first sight of its ugly appearance. He appears to be relentless because he abandons a creature who has no ability to live alone. The…

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    that he is much better with his hands than being a Salesman but he is so naïve, he fails recognize it due to the fact that it isn’t a popular job amongst men in that era. By the time Willy got to his old age, his life was a mess. Happy, one of his sons, was basically just like him, all talk. Now near the end of his career as a salesman, Willy realizes his whole life was just a joke, and the hopes he placed in the American Dream were misguided. At the end of the play, his only hope is to leave…

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    that Victor Frankenstein is a bad person for trying to play god and not taking responsibility for his creation and overall abandoning his problems and making everything worse. In this novel, there are moments of people that are very nurturing and moments that show complete abandonment the option of nurturing someone in the time of need. Some of the best cases of nurturing people come at the beginning of the novel with Victor 's parents and Justine Moritz, the servant of Frankenstein Family. In…

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    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 the monster to seek attention by murdering his creator’s friends and family. After Frankenstein…

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    Ginny Choi Mr. Boggan Literature 10 P4 7 December, 2016 Character Analysis: Victor Frankenstein Victor is the main character of this book, Frankenstein. He is from Geneva, and he is the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort. He has an adopted sister Elizabeth Lavenza, who eventually becomes his future wife. His brother is William Frankenstein, and his best friend is Henry Clerval. Since young, he was mostly self-educated. As he gets older, he is fascinated by modern science; he goes…

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    mother’s writings and reputation on women’s rights and education. Her influence on writing the novel, Frankenstein, was determined by dreadful events she experienced throughout her life such as, the death of her first husband, Percy Shelley, and of her three infants. The romantic movement was a period…

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    Fear In Frankenstein

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    Being the first of the cycle, the figure of Dr. Frankenstein is the stereotypical mad scientist. He is “driven by a frenzy for knowledge.” Dr. Frankenstein patches together a monster from human odds and ends, hides away in the mountains, receives aid from a dwarf, and steals a brain from the dissecting room of a medical college (Balio 301). Robert Florey wrote a screenplay for Frankenstein. When James Whale was made the director he made modifications. The film reveals…

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    agePrejudice is a flawed act in which humans take part. Prejudice is the “preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience” (Oxford Dictionaries). Prejudice and its resultant problems are present across many genres. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice showcase how prejudice negatively affects those being prejudiced, as well as those around them. Frankenstein’s creature becomes a killer…

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    Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein represents a major milestone in the history of the horror genre in literature and, specifically, in the history of the monster. Even children have heard about Frankenstein's monster and a lot have seen him adapted on TV. Frankenstein's creature is a very popular monster but in the book he starts off as an innocent and intelligent creature, aspect of him we generally only see glimpses of in adaptations. The creature is not born a monster, he becomes one after…

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    Although Frankenstein sets out to create a human being, throughout the novel he refers to his unnamed creation as “devil,” “creature,” “monster,” and “fiend.” These names imply that Frankenstein does not consider his creature to be a true human being. The question though is: why not? How does the novel distinguish the human from the nonhuman? Since the creature can reason, use language, and feel emotion, why shouldn’t he be considered human? How and why is the category of “monster” applied to…

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