Young Frankenstein

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…

Victor Hugo specifies that Jean Valjean is a cruel, broken-hearted man that is ultimately changed by the acts of love and compassion by the people around him in the novel, Les Miserables. Jean Valjean course of life after prison sets him up at the Bishop’s house, leading him to meet the kind Bishop. With the Bishop’s kind acts that Valjean has embraced, Valjean spreads his kindness and sympathy to others along the way. With all this kindness and goodness in Valjean, connecting to God will become…

In my creative piece I choose to rewrite the scene where the monster in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is created; I believe this is the most important scene because it is where the story shifts, it takes a bold turn and the monster becomes real instead of just a thought. Victoria is the scientist who creates the monster rather than Victor in my version, because it allowed me to add a lot of political topics and issues into the story that may have been interpreted differently if the character were a…

In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley introduces a feminine gender role within the character, The Wretch. Although he was physically created male, he represents feminine characters outside the text. Shelley implicates this role relating to John Milton’s biblical characters, Eve and Satan, from his “patriarchal” epic, Paradise Lost. From this epic and the novel, Eve, Satan, and The Wretch are represented as “fallen angels”, who are the characters that have sinned against their Creator and…

really beneficial? In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the plot conveys that a an extremely heightened passion for the sciences has very detrimental effects, as the tone in the early part of Victor’s narrative suggests. As a result, in a sequence of events, scientific advancement can unintentionally lead one to turn into a monster. As a result of numerous scientific advancements, many people are harmed. Therefore, while part of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein illustrates the benefits of…

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man, who through his love of science and alchemy, gives birth to a monstrous and forever unnamed creature. During the span of the novel, the monster goes either unnoticed by society or shunned, while Frankenstein lives his life in fear of coming upon the Creature or he is hunting him down. All the creature wants is what he notices the rest of society having; friends, family, community. At the very least, the Creature wanted a companion like himself, who…

Knowledge equals power and with it comes great responsibility. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, characters either free themselves from the power of others or seek to gain power over others. The abuse of such power results in the demise of the innocent. Shelley uses three narrators to highlight their similarities and differences in respect with ambition, desire for power, acquisition of knowledge, and exploration. Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton, and the Monster all wish to pursue these…

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad explores many tricky topics, but the most prominent is the evil that consumes humanity. This is well elaborated upon throughout the novel and especially shown in Mr. Kurtz. In The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses imagery and symbolism to explain to the reader that the true evil of humanity is greed. Joseph Conrad uses symbolism to elaborate on the true evil of humanity: greed. The symbolism of the river shows this prominently as Mr. Kurtz, a very…

“ The way he said my name sent a chill down my back. Nobody called me “ Perseus” except those who knew my true identity. Friends….and enemies.” When I read this quote by Percy Jackson, it had sent a chill down my neck and sent a happy feeling throughout my body because when that quote came into the book, it was when Percy was fighting monsters with his soon to be brother Tyson. This book Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan, is a thrilling fantasy. This book contains a adventure to save Thalia’s Tree…

Mary Shelly: Frankenstein During Frankenstein, there is never a consistent focus for sure who is characterized as a victim or as a victimizer. Instead, the role is continually changed between the two main characters—Frankenstein and the creature (Frankenstein created). As the role changes through out the story the moral perspective of the story also changes due to the change of the victim and victimizer. But if I was told to choose a victim through out this novel I would have to say it was…