The Grotesque

Nicholas Papadopoulos March, 13, 2016 Teeth, Oppression, and Thought When the word “monster” is heard, people generally think of a nasty, gnarled, stinky, scary and or huge thing. So of the most famous historic monsters are Mary Shelley's creation in Frankenstein, which terrified his master until the end or Bram Stoker's Dracula which terrified....everyone. These monsters had a few things in common. They were both scary, dangerous and killed people is horrific ways. These obvious…

putting a warning label on soda we could bring that number down. Sugary drinks should have warning labels, because it is addicting and can wreck your body. First of all, soda can wreck people’s bodies. Soda can turn teeth yellow, turn livers into a grotesque lump of scar tissue, it can lead to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Bodies are controlled by what people eat, when they take that sip of soda it is wrecking their bodies and will lead to all of this. In addition bodies absorb sugar…

he Crossing of the Rubicon Annotated Bibliography Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus. “The Crossing of the Rubicon.” The Portable Roman Reader. New York: Penguin Group, 1977. Lucanus shows us how the Romans have become caught up with living a wealthy life, full of luxuries. Having forgotten their humble beginnings, the people of Rome are corrupt with greed. Ceasar, a powerful leader of his people, feels guilty for how his country has lost sight of what is important, at least important to…

I found the article of "Camille Paglia: Women Aren’t Free Until Speech Is" interesting to read and to think about. It points out the issue of no freedom of speech, which is one of the biggest problems we currently have [1]. The free speech movement "erupted at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964" (Paglia). The movement began in a university that does not support the freedom of speech anymore. For example, the students took over the streets when a right-wing commentator, Milo…

When Gilman finished writing her masterpiece “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she sent the short story out to multiple publishers hoping for it to be printed. One of her major issues with trying to get her story reproduced was that critics simply did not want to publish such an appalling story. Every publisher she sent it too declined. Horace Scudder, the editor at the time for the Atlantic Monthly, wrote to her in a note saying that he would never forgive himself if he subjected others to the misery…

Ashes is a small area located between two modernized places: West Egg and New York, which means that it is a shabby place to be inhabitable compared to the two places. For example, when the narrator, Nick, says that the Valley of Ashes is like a “grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke” (Fitzgerald, 27). This shows that the whole place is hidden underneath the ashes and dust and it has taken over the life of the Valley of Ashes. It means that the…

Being the author of many dark and grotesque stories, Edgar Allan Poe made his mark on humanity by truly showing what it means to be human. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. He was later adopted by tobacco merchants in 1811. Poe inherited his uncle’s fortune in 1825 and that is when he starts his writing career. Poe is a brilliant short story writer that trampled upon light and fluffy works. He meant for people to feel uneasy and frightened of what may be happening in another’s mind.…

Nazi Germany is forever remembered as the villainous provocateur of World War II. This war played host to some of the most atrocious events in human history. The war has evoked several images of human cruelty, war torn cities and towns, concentration camps, nuclear holocaust, racial hatred, and villainous dictators. Underneath the tumultuous events of World War II, there was a section of Nazi policy directed at military, medical, and euthanasia experimentation. In a ravaged post war Germany,…

When one hears the term “werewolf,” the first thought typically tends to fall inside the general theme of the “brutal, mindless killing machine” shown in movies like “An American Werewolf in London” or “Dog Soldiers.” However, today’s werewolf simultaneously parallels and differs from the medieval werewolf. While versions of the modern werewolf take pieces from its medieval predecessor, they vastly are of their own design. This new design can be traced back to sales; new and original ideas are…

Amelia Gray’s Gutshot Amelia Gray in her two short stories The Moment of Conception and Fifty Ways to Eat Your Lover preserves and capitalizes her consistency to deliver grotesque, surreal parables that mask the simple attributes of the human condition to love, understand love, and the surreal journey as well as the destination that love can take one person. In The Moment of Conception Gray manages to capsulate the desire and emotional drive for her characters in the first sentence of the story,…