William and Mary

Frankenstein is Mary Shelley’s famous novel, written in 1817 when she was 18 years old. Throughout the book, Mary Shelley uses the monster to emphasize the importance of communication and the consequences it has on people. It seem that if people willing to use language and words to deal with problems, there won’t be any misunderstanding, violence, vengeance, and lead to a tragedy. The monster is abandoned by Frankenstein right after his accomplishment. There is no one around him to teach him,…

John Proctor has an affair with a young maid named Abigail Williams. John Proctor is married to Elizabeth Proctor. Elizabeth finds out about the affair and fires Abigail. This starts a fire which consumes the Proctors and the town of Salem. This affair made the citizens of Salem rely on their religion to set their minds free from the sins they committed by not exposing their knowledge of the affair between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. Elizabeth Proctor is a honest, kind and holy…

Although Abby Williams and Reverend Parris in The Crucible seem…

Mary Elizabeth Wieting Johnson Born on February 12, 1843, Mary Elizabeth Wieting Johnson was from English ancestry, whose granddaughter Col. William Coley, came to America as a boy and served with distinction in the Revolutionary War. She was the youngest daughter of a lawyer, New York State legislator, and Pitcher, NY Postmaster Samuel, and his wife Mary Ann Coley Plumb. The Plumb family moved to Homer when Mrs. Johnson was a girl and she was graduated from the Homer Academy with highest honors…

Mary Shelley was a significant reflection of her parents. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft who published one classics manifesto of sexual equality, A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman(1792). Her father was William Godwin , he had established his preeminence in radical British political thought with his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice(1793). William won a permanent spot in literary history with his novel Caleb Williams(1794). Mary’s mother died due to complications of her birth and later…

Abigail helped Occur “You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.” is a quote by Andy Andrews. In the tragic play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller there is a girl named Abigail Williams. Abigail made many events occur by the actions she took. She had many past events in her life that influenced her behavior, but none of the events can pardon her from the choices she made. In Salem Abigail starts the witch trial. This…

pretending to be mad at Elizabeth for damaging her reputation. But the bigger reason she is mad is because she is jealous that Elizabeth and proctor are still together and that she did not split them apart so she can be with him. To conclude, Abigail Williams has been a manipulative vengeful liar from the beginning of the play. Her character allows readers of The Crucible to understand that at the end of rough times the people who always win are the ones that use people to get off the hook.…

Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place during the time of the Salem Witch Trial in Massachusetts. In the trials, many innocent people are being accused of being a witch by bunch of girls hiding a secret of their leader, Abigail Williams. Throughout the story, Abigail Williams wants revenge on Goody Proctor because of her jealousy toward her husband, John Proctor which would lead into using too much her power. Before the play starts, Abigail had an affair with John Proctor. Her desire to have…

In the story Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, I love that she has many different themes from this one novel. The main one that I would like to talk about is bad parenting in the Frankenstein novel. I would like to talk about how Mary Shelleys background plays in the novel, the good parents in the novel, and the contrast between parents and the children. Mary Shelley the other of Frankenstein, was raised by a single parent. Her fathers named William Godwin. Some people say that when you’re raised…

Parker Bain Mrs. Schroder English IV 28 November 2016 Gothic Themes in Frankenstein Known as one of the most popular gothic novels of its time, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has various types of eerie vibes. There are many different examples of the gothic theme in this story. “Gothic is known as an English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting.” (Dictionary). In the book, there are…