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Erin Taylor Instructor Toni J. Weeden Honors Senior English December 11, 2017 The Modern Prometheus Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus was written in 1818 by a young woman named Mary Shelley. When Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Shelley arrived at the house of Lord Byron on Lake Geneva in 1815, their vacation was spent mostly indoors. Byron proposed a challenge to his guests, asking who could create the most frightening tale. This sparked an idea in eighteen-year-old Mary. Over the…

In many literary works, authors project their selves into their work by writing based on their experiences, opinions, and preferences. Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, is another one of them. In the article, Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother, Ellen Moers implies that Mary Shelley has written the novel Frankenstein based on her own experiences. Ellen Moers starts off by stating that Gothic novels originated from women. The Gothic space allowed women to go beyond the boundaries in terms…

When one is asked to think of their idea of a monster, they usually come up with something along the lines of no emotions, no remorse, and pure disgust. On the contrary, two prominent novels in literature, Grendel by John Gardner and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, claim that monsters can indeed show emotions and the ability to reason as a normal human being. Both novels introduce a physically hideous monster on the outside, isolated from the rest of the world. These two creatures are shown to…

In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the character Victor Frankenstein is very interested into philosophy which brought his desire to bring death to life. As Victor worked to his maximum energy to create a human he soon realized he's done. However, when the creature came to life victor was shocked but fearful of what he has done. Then Victor deserted his creature who then lived a stressful and isolated life. The opinion of whether the creature is human or not is very straightforward. Two…

“Desiree’s Baby” is one of the few short stories that was written by Kate Chopin and originally published on January the 14th, 1893. The story starts out by introducing a character by the name of Madame Valmonde who is visiting Desiree and her baby. About 18 years after, Armand Aubigny, another important character introduced, has suddenly fallen in love with Desiree when he saw her against a stone pillar. After seeing the baby and how its grown, Valmonde and Armand see that something about the…

Margaret Atwood Analysis of the writing style: Best known for her books, Margaret Atwood is perceived as one of Canada's most noticeable and productive contemporary journalists. Atwood's notoriety, be that as it may, likewise lays on her voluminous commitments to the class of verse and short story. In addition, as a basic expert, student of history, and writer, Atwood's compositions have showed up in an extensive variety of academic material spreading over from school and college course…

Education is a large concept discussed within Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. However, education within the novel is not discussed in a contemporary sense, insead using it to convey the concepts of irregular education, scientific discovery, and the importance of learning about one self. Throughout Frankenstein education is discussed in a variety of sense mainly in the forms of differing self learning and the use of self-learning to propel yourself forward.…

“The Bell Jar” by Victoria Lucas (Pseudonym of Sylvia Plath) was first time published on 14 January 1963 in the U.S of America after her death in a same year. This book was written as novel by Sylvia Lucas, but in comparison with her life before this book, we can clearly say that it is autobiographical book, where the author tries to wright her personal story but under different name, Plath choose Esther Greenwood as her protégé in the book. Both of them had experience with magazines and…

Child’s Abandonment When I was a child, I used to think that parents are the ones who raise and nurture you till you grow up. In this case, it is often said that some children are abandoned at birth; with no one to care for them, which brings me to my next point. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it is a creature that Victor Frankenstein created due to the loss of his mother. In creating this monster, he believes that he can resurrect anyone. Ironically, his plan in it unraveled humans…

presented a careful examination of the individual organs and general structure of the human body. Vesalius’s discovered Galen’s errors about the human body. Vesalius discovered that the great blood vessels originated from heat instead of the liver. William Harvey demonstrated in his book, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, that the heart, not the liver, was the beginning point of the circulation of blood in the body, and the same blood flows in both the veins and arteries making a complete…