Young Life

From 2011-2013, Seventeen Magazine, a popular teen/young adult magazine featured a host of popular female celebrities such as: Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Shaileene Woodley, Ariana Grande, as well as many other ABC family stars were featured wearing shirts with the word delete sprawled across them. The meaning behind these shirts and the whole campaign in general was to help spread awareness of cyberbullying as well as help combat it. The question I pose is, how affective/successful was this…

book Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein is a scientist whose inability to see past his own ego ultimately leads him to create a monster. Not fully aware of the consequences of his creating a new race of humans, he spends his entire life trying to destroy the same creation. Victor’s impulses to create such a monstrosity directly correlate to a part of his mental state that houses emotions of sex and aggression. His incomparable urge to surpass his ego in his thirst for this…

abyss between the innocence of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. What defines a certain teenager is often how they cope with this intermediate phase. What choices do they make? Are they responsible? How do they respond to adversity? The life of Holden–the impulsive protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye–offers a clear example of how uncertain, and frightening, this period can be. Holden ricochets between childhood and adulthood, a result of his uncertainty and fear. Due…

Frankenstein, a gothic novel by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein is a book that depicts a man named Victor Frankenstein creating life for the purpose of science and benefit of humankind. He later rejects the Creature and leaves it to fend for itself, causing the Creature in turn to have his benevolent nature replaced by the need for revenge on Victor when society rejects him time and time again. Knowledge is power, but depending on what you achieve with that skill, it can have deadly consequences.…

abomination. Towards the middle, portrayed as a gentle giant, emotional, compassionate, knowledgeable, understanding. Towards the end, purposeless, like father like son. Victor and the creature were intertwined ever since the creature was given the spark of life by his creator. They both ended up in the same position; heartbroken, lost, obsessed. Creatio ex nihilo; out of nothing, something. This saying rings true…

demonstrates grave or horrific outcomes or backgrounds in meaning, which really helps aid the story in the horror genre. As said by Mary Shelley, everyone is born the same way, even monsters, but we’re just shaped by our experiences. The theme of creation and life is extremely prominent through the entire story, and with Mary’s ideology behind the theme, it’s no wonder she was able to make each character as they are. No matter how a person is born, anyone can become a monster if experiences…

Despite these parallels, I do not feel it possible or necessary to sum up Mary Shelley’s persona by just one character or aspect of her novel. Any author is, after all, pouring their heart and life into each individual word. Every character, and every scene, is crafted by the writer. About halfway through the book, it seems as if Shelley begins to align herself more with the monster and his view of the world. Frankenstein’s monster is a physical tragedy that exists in the world of the book. He…

development, and a reflection of the perpetrator’s true sentiments and the victim’s true weaknesses. Throughout the novel, multiple characters feel an undeniable attraction to new knowledge. Frankenstein searches and discovers the secret to creating life and, with his newfound knowledge, he creates a living creature. Once he succeeds, he feels “unable to endure the aspect of the being [he] had created” (Shelley 47) and abandons the monster. The act of abandoning his creation marks the first of…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses the treatment of strangers in his stories to point out that many characters are treated based on their physical appearances, even if we never discover their true personalities. In Marquez’s short story, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” the character that the story is based around is a very attractive man, but we are not aware of his personality or even his name, but people still seem to admire him because of his physical traits. “Fascinated by his huge size…

Hearing the named creature, a negative picture comes up in our psyche about it and the picture characterizes beast as a hazardous and nonhuman creature or it can be a monster with the state of the human. We were presented with Frankenstein's beast by the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. In Mary Shelley's exemplary story Frankenstein, the famous monster is escaping human view when he experiences a bag in the forested areas loaded with books and dress. The beast peruses Milton's Paradise Lost…