Young Life

The Breakfast Club which was written, directed and produced by John Hughes was written for teenagers and allowed other generations to observe popular culture through the eyes of a teenager. The film illustrates teenage culture in the 1980’s and the social struggles tied to being a teenager. To understand the shift in American culture within the 1980’s and how movies began depicting popular culture, the film does an excellent job of illustrating. Popular culture, low culture, elite culture,…

questions always asked in life is, why am I feeling this way? Ask any child about emotion and the reasons why we feel the way we do, And you'll get some crazy answer and loads of imagination. Think about what it would be like if the imagination and emotion came together into one monster. The lessons that could be taught, the stories that could be learned are amazing and wonderful. I have discovered a story that talks about exactly this. This novel has changed my look on life and I would like to…

father, brothers, and childhood friends. One can even interpret his obsession for creating life as a result of his mother’s death and wishing he could bring her back. After the monster is created, Victor’s concern for his family and friends and the turmoil he suffers through the creature’s vengeful acts take readers on an emotional rollercoaster of anticipation. By offering no background for Frankenstein’s life, before college, and removing the friends and family characters in the movie, the…

The major theme in Frankenstein based off of the highly complex relationship that the creature and Victor Frankenstein share. This theme and relationship can be compared to other stories such as The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Both stories include a creator and a creation, though the relationship that the creator and creation share in each book is much different, yet in a way they are similar. Both Frankenstein and The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde share a common theme.…

In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, appearance and exterior beauty are used as methods for determining the superiority, acceptance, and status of an individual of society. Through her characters, Shelley emphasizes the unfortunate importance of beauty in first impressions, the superiority of good-looking individuals, and reliance on outer beauty for pleasure. It’s although inner beauty lacks importance and outer beauty is all that is significant to humanity. We are introduced to several…

2. A new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures Frankenstein develops the desire to attain the godlike power of creating new life 3. 3. A turning in upon self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentials. The author emphasizes the experiences of the creature who is transformed by his treatment from Victor and society. He goes from…

In Frankenstein, society pays a huge role in the way the creator acts, and how society views him differently. Frankenstein’s creature which he has created is yellow-skinned and 8 feet tall, in society no one looks like him. When the creature thought he could socialize with some of the cottagers he found “one of the best of these I entered; but I had hardly placed my foot within the door, before the children shrieked, and no one of the women fainted” (shelly 93). Society back then thought there…

to go against the natural course of life results in the monster and Frankenstein’s cruelty. Frankenstein’s unnatural mission stems from a seemingly harmless wish. All Victor wants is to be more worldly…

Expectation and reality are two different sides of a story. The former could change depending on one’s imagination or vision, but the latter on the other hand remains a fact. The outcome of having high expectations can often be disappointing. This outcome is mainly called the reality, which at times can be cruel. An expectation and its reality are never consistently even. The two sources that I chose to compare and contrast are Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and On Seeing England for the first…

However when the creature is brought to life it is portrayed as a large, grotesque beast which creates the sense that he is a monster right from the beginning. “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of…