William and Mary

Consisting of four consecutive acts, numerically speaking, The Crucible falls only a single act short of becoming classified under the Shakespearean five-act structure. Particularly, Aristotle believed that all pieces of poetry, including drama had three consecutive parts: a beginning, a middle and an end. By using beliefs of Aristotle, the Shakespearean five- act structure emerged. Modifications of the Shakespearean five-act structure were used in telling the story of Salem through Miller’s…

favorite in the hearts of many passionate readers around the world. A story that we’re all familiar with began with a young writer, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Shelley was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the second child of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and the first child of the philosopher, novelist, and journalist William Godwin. Her early life was one of tragedy, her mother died shortly after Shelley’s birth, and she grew up as an outcast,…

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the two principle characters, Frankenstein and the animal are both looking for equity. This equity wouldn't have been important if not for the formation of the creature. The physical appearance of the beast is the fundamental driver of its own enormity and other individuals' disdain of it. Frankenstein's equity originates from the acknowledgment that the creature has executed the greater part of Victor's family. Different individuals from his family…

In Frankenstein, written by Mary-Ann Shelley, Shelley portrays Victor as the ultimate monster. Throughout the novel, Shelley tests Victor’s morals and concludes him to be arrogant and selfish. Shelley depicts his immorality through the creation of the creature, abandoning his creation, and his decision to uphold his reputation and sacrifice mankind. Shelley illustrates Victor’s immorality through the creation of the creature. When Victor attends university at Ingolstadt, he decides to pursue…

from their parents, but also an understanding of life and morals. Parents have the ability to dictate their children’s future; they can steer their children in the right path through good parenting or in the wrong direction through poor parenting. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor, a parent figure to the Creature, is absent in the Creature’s life, which leads to heartbreak and destruction. Victor Frankenstein’s passion for science and education leads him to deeply explore a new field:…

Other examples involving elements of doubling are two German Gothic works by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Die Elixiere des Teufels (The Devil’s Elixir) (1815-16) and “Die Doppelgänger” (The Doppelgänger) (1821), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818; 1823), Edgar Allan Poe’s William Wilson (1839) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). In the 19th century, thanks to the renewed interest of the Romantic movement and Gothic fiction in the matter, the figure of the…

Through her gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley forces her audience to consider whether Victor Frankenstein should be considered a monster. Through her exploration of the romantic idea of the complexity of the human persona, as well as ideas of good and evil, Shelley reveals the monstrous characteristics of Victor, while also highlighting his redeeming features. Shelley provides an alternative villain in the character of Frankenstein’s creation. Shelley forces her audience to question what…

are so fortunate to indulge in such tenderness, as one of the most influential female authors of the 1900 century, Mary Shelley, had no such privilege, her mother dying while giving birth to her. The complete abandonment Shelley experienced through her parents and parental figures left her scarred for life, a powerful and continuous theme in all the novels she wrote. The parents of Mary Shelley were extremely famous and successful within their own regard, each highly respected…

These two statements from Victor Frankenstein and the Monster suggest that knowledge has a positive and negative impact. To refer to the monsters impact on knowledge, it can be negative. He wished he never left home because he does not have that much knowledge as a regular human being would. He was never educated, so he has to learn on his own which gives him a negative impact because it is hard to gain knowledge being independent. On the other hand, Victor is completely opposite with knowledge.…

INTRO: During the Romantic Era, a lot of poets came alive with the newfound love of nature. George Gordon (Lord Byron) and Percy Bysshe Shelley are just two of the six poets that wrote poems about nature and what it meant to them. the introduction of “To the Skylark” by Shelley and “Apostrophe of the Sea” by Byron really made the Romantic period burst with literature. Although the poets are similar with some aspects, they have very different writing techniques and you can tell through their…