The Lost Princess

People who are parents are supposed to teach lessons and be role models for their children. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley there is an emphasis on the topic of parenting. Parents are supposed to be people their children should emulate. Mary Shelley has shown examples of bad parents by introducing parental figures that do not give nor receive respect while also being untrustworthy and oblivious. The parents that are introduced in this novel are not to be trusted as they do not help but instead…

Free will is someone 's ability to do whatever and make choices that change their future in the way they want. The choices we make change our lives and leads us down our own future. In Macbeth and paradise lost, you can see two examples of how free will; you can also see how the powered choice causes two characters to face isolation in their community. In both stories, they are only isolated by their own actions, no one made them follow that path. They alone were responsible for their down fall.…

In the book “Where Things Come Back,” John Corey Whaley introduces his readers to a world in which two stories collide to create a climax that establishes a feeling of regret and sorrow when read. As Cullen Witter identifies the body of his cousin Oslo in the morgue he doesn’t think about missing Oslo or never saying bye but instead, he thought of the times where he and the rest of his family had loaned Oslo money.He also mentions how he deals with the struggles of his life such as pretending to…

Butterfly is known as one of God’s masterpieces that is created by transforming from something ugly to a glamorous creature. However, it is the pain that actually creates the beauty of a butterfly’s wing. Without the extreme struggle when the caterpillar breaks its own cocoon, the butterfly would never, ever be able to fly. I have to confess that I was born a caterpillar, “unsightly blemishes” as I identified my corpulent body and ugly out looking. When I was young, I did not understand how an…

Sermon that can change lives A sermon in a powerful thing. Jonathan Edwards and Martin Luther King there sermons are very different, but they are both powerful. Edwards talks about hell. King talks about loving your enemies. As humans we can learn a lot from both of these men. We are a stubborn group of people, but they are trying to get us to get out of our own head and learn and change. Martin Luther King fought against what people said and did. He was fighting for equal rights and standing…

Perhaps one of the most emotionally appealing themes a writer can utilize is that of the social outcast endeavoring to find its place in the world, a theme utilized to great effect by both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre despite their character’s different fates, the former featuring a supposedly monstrous creation who is ultimately rejected wholly by society and the latter an orphan child who is eventually able to carve an admittedly precarious foothold as a…

Romanticism is a literary movement which is marked by several key components, many of which are observable in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. One element of Romanticism is the belief that imagination is able to lead to a a new and more perfect vision of the world and those who live in it. In this novel, Victor Frankenstein is the idealist who wants to create life from nothing; that is the ultimate ideal, marking victor as a Romantic. In another sense, Victor's actions demonstrate the Romantic…

In this passage from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor is overcome with disgust and horror at the sight of the creature he has reanimated. Consumed with fear, Victor decides to “seek a few moments of forgetfulness” (Shelley 35) and falls asleep. In his dreams he envisions his lover, Elizabeth transforming into his dead mother. Victor wakes from his nightmare with a start, only to face another one in real life. Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein is often interpreted as a response to the…

Moral value has been replaced by materialism in “The Great Gatsby” In the 1920s, the “Jazz age” or “the Roaring Twenties” is a period after World War I where American society went to a radical change and social reform, and American situated as the most powerful nation of the world. The economic was growing very fast, and the manufacturing were working in full of capacity. The industrialization and the economic prosperity influenced people’s lives: individuals, especially the upper class who has…

The distinguished American writer Mark Twain once said “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”. In the short story “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the antagonist Mr. Hyde, utilizes dishonesty to manipulate and deceive other characters, in order to carry out his crimes. The protagonist Dr.Jekyll utilizes his alternate persona of Mr. Hyde, to uphold his reputation to the standards of the Victorian society he is a part of. From the onset of his youth,…