Walker Percy

The strive for absolute power is like sea-water - the more we drink, the thirstier we become, ultimately causing eternal impairment. Poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, in his poem, “Ozymandias,” depicts the visual of an antiquated statue of a king who’s ruthless actions resulted in utter destruction. Shelley’s purpose is to portray the repercussions of individuals’ egocentric actions. The speaker’s utilization of diction, figurative language, and tone articulates the notion that one’s ambition to…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, an enticing journey into a world that makes people stop and think about the very nature of society and a person’s existence, contains a periodic parallel between the fine lines of advancement causing improvement versus causing destruction. Frankenstein is a commentary on technology advancement. Questioning the consequences of technological advancement to the point of self-inflicted societal damnation. Shelley uses Dr. Frankenstein’s relationship with the monster to…

Maria Cominis’ “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, presented by California State University, Fullerton College of the Arts at the Young Theatre was an afternoon of captivating acting. On Sunday, October 1st, 2017 at two in the afternoon the play begun. It was very intense and so many things happened. Robert leaves his sister and sets out on a journey with his crew to find new things about human nature and she is very worried for him, but lets him go. Victor Frankenstein comes home to Geneva from…

Frankenstein is not only a member of France’s elite, but he is Shelley’s depiction of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The timeline of Bonaparte’s fall from power coincides with when Shelley was writing her novel. Susan Wolfson, professor of English at Princeton, gives a summary of the similar timelines, “Frankenstein was conceived in June 1816, a year or so after Napoleon Bonaparte, a monster to many, was defeated at Waterloo and exiled to a remote island in the Atlantic. The novel’s…

Frankenstein Reflective Journal After reading the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, I can certainly see that the character Victor Frankenstein himself is isolated and lonely. This is illustrated through each chapter in even more depth as you read deeper into the novel. Victor doesn't epitomize the stereotypical man, pertaining to his level of sensitivity. For a man to be a man, they must act like one, and as cliché as it is, I have concluded that Victor defies this presumption by…

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein created the monster for personal gain, never taking responsibility for what he had created. Only showing any signs of sympathy for the creature after their confrontation. Once Frankenstein had listened to it he had finally realized that to please the beast he would have to create an Eve for Adam. The monster was created as the first creature in what Frankenstein believed would be an entire species of life forms that would bow to him. “A new…

In the extract of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley describes the look and actions of Frankenstein’s monster as well as Frankenstein’s reactions toward his monster. Shelley uses language and an ominous setting to create a fearsome creature. When Mary Shelley contrasts the monster’s beautiful features to its grotesque ones, her language creates an appalling creature. She states, “…these luxuriances only formed more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same color as the dun-white…

In the novel The Titan's Curse, Percy Jackson and his friends went on a dangerous quest to save Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, from the grasp of the titans. They didn't know where she was and who guarded her. But, during the quest, they figured it out. Which but them in even more danger. However, gods like Zeus, Posiedon and even Hades helped them throughout the quest, mostly without even showing their faces. When the group was at the Hover dam, they accidentally created a scene when they…

There are many lessons to be learned through Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, but many of those messages are diluted or lost all together in the digital world that we live in today. The access to digital media has indeed proven to be more convenient than those of traditional books but what some digital media fails to do is convey the rhetorical lessons in the same way that the author originally intended, such as the 1931 film version of Frankenstein. More times than not, the digital form…

of Percy Jackson the Lighting Thief. Some of the similarities are that in the movie and in the book they are trying to get to the underworld because they think that Hades took the lighting bolt. In the book they ride in the back of a truck to get to the underworld and in the movie they steal a truck and drive all the way there. The difference is in the book they say they are 12 years old but in the movie they look like they are 16 or 17 years old and in the book they all had to find out Percy…