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The cost of knowledge, as shown in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is not worth the risk due to the monster killing his family, the unknown, and what the future has in store if humans continue to advance technologically. Victor Frankenstein, renowned scientist was thirsty for knowledge and challenge, needing more in his life. He expanded his horizons, and tinkers at the borderline of human and God when he created his monster. Initially, Victor is thrilled in his discovery, but the second of…

a specific hero or villain type situation. They are far too perplex to be categorised into a stereotypic hero or villain. The story of Frankenstein is told through multiple narrators and through different times in Victor Frankenstein’s life. As a young man, Victor Frankenstein can be seen as man who could grow linto the role of a hero. He is a man of science and he wants to create life to help people. But when his creature awakens he instantly fears it and things just go south from there. He…

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is the author of “Monster Culture” who connects society and the monsters that humans make. Cohen explains how the Monster always falls under one or more of the categories, decided by the Monster’s characteristics. These characteristics include the monster who is a cultural body, the monster who always escapes, the monster who always brings crises, the monster who is an outsider, the monsters whose story prevents us from breaking rules, the monsters who represent fear and…

visit they receive a bill of all the things the boys have broken and the parents offer to stay with the boys. Upon hearing this news, they both grimace and say with hesitation “permanently? While we are traveling the world? Doing our thing? Becoming young men?” It is quite obvious from their uncomfortable tone and body language they do not want them to stay. This is because they were used to being alone and independent. While on the boat, their mind shifted to being alone and taking risks…

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, uses neglect, rejection, and the fact that the creature represents a shadow of Victor’s past to create a never ending conflict between Victor and the monster. This causes the death of Victor’s closest friends and family to be murdered by the creature who had suffered since the start of his life. Upon the creation of the monster, Victor flees his apartment to escape the horrors he had just witnessed. The creature was left alone without an explanation or…

In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, influences how teenagers battle with character. He does this through a growing anti-school high school student’s point of view. Charlie is an innocent antisocial freshman who is befriended by a group of high school seniors. Charlie’s new friends expose him to a new world of drugs, love, sexuality, parties, relationships, friendship, and lies. His friends play a huge role in his development. They motivate him to explore a new side of life. He…

idolized the president, who at the time, was Barack Obama. I was raised in a town where racism was subtle, but present, but my eyes and ears hadn’t been trained to notice it yet. I internalized much of what I saw and had a preference for whiteness as a young black girl. I was never told that I should hate myself for what I looked like explicitly, self hatred embedded itself in me. As I grew older, into the person…

The poem “Science” by Robinson Jeffers consists of fifteen lines describing the consequences of modern man which ends with a question of their ‘dream.’ The poem references man’s inventions, science and technology, and nature or the environment where man first came to live and proceeded to destroy. Jeffers begins with a description of man, and then ends by questioning, “who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much?” (14-15), referring to what man or humanity has done which displaying…

Mary Shelley’s depiction of the creature in Frankenstein averts toward the idea that common man will reject any idea unsimilar to their own demeanor. Since Victor has created this creature, man does not accept the individual in society as one of their own. The main reasoning for this is from the creature’s appearance; he is seen as vile, ugly, and horrific looking to the average man. However, the average man is also not a Romantic, but rather, just an average man! The people’s reactions toward…

The novel, Frankenstein features Victor Frankenstein as the main character. It narrates the story and journey of an ambitious young man (Victor) who directs most his efforts to the creation of a new life. His efforts eventually get rewarded. After rigorous scientific experiments; he successfully creates a creature that is although different from human beings, has some human characteristics. The creature however does what its master least expects- killing the human race. To even more surprise, it…