Ten Lost Tribes

F. The Two Beasts: Allies of the Devil (13:1-18) 1st: this section depicts the forces of evil as it is engaged in battle with righteousness. The dragon (devil) is a shrewd and powerful and evil being come onto the scene. We see the political power of the Roman emperor Domitian in cahoots with the devil and receiving his power from that crafty devil. There are pagan priesthoods punishing all of the people who refuse to participate in state ceremonies of paying homage and bowing and worshipping…

Frankenstein, a book written by Mary Shelley interconnects social genders, social isolation, and how we identify and react to the deconstruction. Frankenstein was initially trying to play God and the result was creating a monster. As gender would show it he thought of himself with the highest intellect, but he never thought about the consequences. Frankenstein created a monster that he left, abandon, and socially disconnects himself from to be in the world on his own, with no direction. It was…

“Dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge” (Shelley 31). Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was a vivid representation of how acquiring too much knowledge, has the power to ruin one's life. After Victor conducted his experiment, he realized the horror of his results, which deeply shattered his original expectations. Following the experiment, Victor’s life had slowly fallen apart, and was never the same again. Consequently, what Victor discovered from his experiment redefined his overall perception…

“Soldier’s Home” Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway paints the picture of a very small town where people are more interested in fables compared to reality. The titular home in "Soldier's Home" is not a post-war veteran home, but rather, the childhood home of Harold Krebs, a Marine officer. The author portrays a world widely divided in two sects of people: the ones who have been to war, and the ones who have not. The ones who went to war struggle to find meaning in the things they once enjoyed,…

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley that focuses on the immoral scientific discoveries of Victor Frankenstein. Victor is a character that holds a great fascination and curiosity for the sciences. This curiosity may be categorized as simple human nature, constantly questioning the unknown, but Victor takes it a step too far when he manufactures his own life form. Victor concocts a creature who possesses such a physically vile appearance that it is not accepted into human society. This…

“The literal violence encodes a broader point about the essentially hostile or at least uncaring relationships we have with the universe.” (pg. 95 HTRLLAP) Mary Shelley uses violence in Victor’s monster and in himself to show the theme of lost of innocence. Victor’s creation knew nothing about violence or hate before he experienced the world. Shortly after Victor’s monster showed an act of kindness towards the De Lacey’s, they struck him with violence. After that, he felt as if mankind was…

The doppelganger, the double or counterpart of a living person, is often an important element of a gothic novel. While one may consider a doppelganger a twin of sorts, it can also be seen as an opposite or as a complement to the individual, by possessing different qualities. The novel Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley, portrays a monster, Adam, as the evil side to Victor Frankenstein’s character. Although the creature is the obvious double of his creator, he does not…

to American Literature, Lost Generation is "the name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism" (Hart, 1995, p.390). Gertrude Stein was the critic who gave them that name which later on will be used by Hemingway as a preface to his novel The Sun Also Rises. Most of these writers, who were members of the Lost Generation in the…

When one is asked to think of their idea of a monster, they usually come up with something along the lines of no emotions, no remorse, and pure disgust. On the contrary, two prominent novels in literature, Grendel by John Gardner and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, claim that monsters can indeed show emotions and the ability to reason as a normal human being. Both novels introduce a physically hideous monster on the outside, isolated from the rest of the world. These two creatures are shown to…

As previously said by Mark Twain, "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." This statement illustrates how, no matter who, everyone can be influenced by negative aspects such as vanity, selfishness, arrogance and desire for power. In the book The House Of The Scorpion, the characters are constantly altered by these negative traits, which often results in terrible consequences. Farmer's novel narrates the story of a boy who wishes to be included in society and…