The Lost Children

Frankenstein In a lot of aspects society came up with the idea to view being different as something scary because it is not something that they are normally used to. In the story of Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly she gives out a story about a horrendous looking monster that deals with a variety of rejection among humankind even from his own creator due to his physical appearance and his creator then suffers horrible consequences while his monster lives and roams the Earth. In the story of…

paradise, or a paradise lost” (13-14). By writing, Jernigan wished to create something beautiful and when she did she adored her creation. So much so she was afraid to let it go. Upon entering the world, her beautiful creation has changed. It has grown through the eyes of readers but in the final lines of her poem Jernigan wonders if she really wants this. She had created what she believed to be a perfect paradise but now she wonders if perhaps her paradise is a “paradise lost” (14). This seems…

Book One of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost hones in on the story of one very familiar main character: Satan. After Milton’s brief explanation of how and for whom he is writing the poem, Satan appears with a distraught Beelzebub after they and several others were sent to “bottomless perdition” (47). Satan is remarkably calm in regards to what has occurred and aims to rise up against God, seeking to create as much evil as he can in the world in order to defy God and God’s goodness. Throughout…

Wilfred Owen was one of the most significant poets of the First World War. Owen encompassed the cruel conditions faced by soldiers and observed the true nature of the battlefield. He expressed his ideas through his compositions in a variety of poems such as ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth.’ Owen’s perspectives on human conflict were initially represented throughout his encounters amid ‘The Great War.’ Owen’s poetry moves from traditional formulaic forms to a more violent…

and how they speak and interact with one another so he can understand the daily routine and feelings of a human being. While in the woods the Creature finds a copy of Paradise Lost and begins to read this along with excerpts from Victor’s journal that he found. The most powerful message the Creature gets from Paradise Lost is stated when he says, “…I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel…” (Shelley 100). The Creature realized who his creator really is and how…

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…

“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 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…