The Creatures

and the Creature, have many things in common. Frankenstein, a scientist, aspires to create life, and in the process creates the Creature. However, appalled by its hideous appearance, he flees and abandons the Creature. Scared and confused, the Creature attempts to integrate into human society, only to experience verbal attacks, physical abuse, and ostracization for his appearance. Throughout the novel, the reader can identify many similar characteristics between Frankenstein and the Creature,…

and passion to his Creature until it 's animation. However, after he completes his creation, regret and disgust overcome him and causes him to fall ill. The Creature resembles nothing else that has ever walked the earth and it changes the lives of those around it drastically. Initially, Frankenstein and the Creature seem to share nothing other than the most basic of instincts, but as the Creature develops and Frankenstein begins dealing with the consequences of his Creature 's existence, the…

The lives of Frankenstein and the creature have many similarities to each other such as relationships with nature, their desires for family, intelligence and isolation. Creating the creature and the awful situations that followed result in almost the same life consequences for each character. The deaths caused by the creature made Victor go to the mountains and reconcile for the loss of his family. When William and Justine die he states “But my grief was an augmented and rendered sublime by…

makes us special because the animals cannot do that naturally. In our daily life, we copy each other’s actions all the time which is not a good thing for us to have our individual thinking and be independent. In Susan Blackmore’s essay “Strange Creatures”, she claims that people become the host of meme because it is passed from one person to another easily. Meme is also “selfish”--using its unique behaviour to get itself copied in order to survive and reproduce. Meme is especially popular during…

Labyrinth was released in June 27, 1986 in American theaters. This particular film used puppets that was produced by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The movie was based about a young girl being infatuated with the book Labyrinth, the young girl being Sarah the main character of the movie. Sarah was asked by her parents to babysit her infant half brother Toby, and she gave off a sense of resentment towards Toby, because he was receiving all of the attention from her father and stepmother. Sarah began…

given to them and then expect others to do things for them and are usually rude and have a bad attitude. In this book, Robert, the main character changes throughout the whole story because of the obstacles put before him. Over the course of the book, Creature of the Night, by Kate Thompson, the main character, Robert, goes through a very rough time and makes very bad choices but, he soon realizes he needs to be. Robert is a very wild child at the beginning of the story, he is disrespectful to…

individual representative that evolution has over time copied into other human brains. As a result that is what makes us different from animals and even technology; our ability to have memes control us as Susan Blackmore explains in her essay “Strange Creatures”. For instance, Susan Blackmore states, “We humans, because of our powers of imitation, have become just the physical ‘hosts’ needed for the memes to get around.This is how the world looks from a ‘meme’s eye view’”(37).Our entire…

As many years pass by, memories seem to fade away. However, some remain deep in the soil of the ground. Many, cemeteries have secrets beneath them or around them. History can be brought upon all cemeteries made into existence. In the cemeteries, there is a large amount of information within the people who are buried underneath. Which, makes it useful to know how these cemeteries got here in the first place. As challenging, as can be in finding information about cemeteries, there are multiple…

Although it may seem otherwise, Victor Frankenstein and the creature share many of the same traits and qualities. Both Victor and the creature experience isolation from the world, along with sadness and loneliness. They both have a passion for knowledge and learning, as well as a curiosity for life. Lastly, they both lack close and loving relationships, causing them to act spiteful and vengeful. Overall, the parallels between Victor and his creation grow more apparent throughout the novel…

society, and students learn everything from basic survival skills to advanced topics through some sort of education. Walton, Victor, and the Creature in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley all strive to explore further knowledge for various purposes, but the outcomes of their actions through that pursuit of knowledge all share negative consequences. Although the Creature, Victor, and Walton aspire to acquire knowledge for a variety of goals ranging from basic survival to personal interest to achieving…