Young Life

Who is accountable for their actions when children are young; the child or the parent? In, the book Frankenstein the main character Victor, creates a Creature, in his image. The Creature goes physco and begins killing people. Victor creates the creature The Creature’s responsibilities directly affect how the monster is perceived; the Creature can control his actions, emotions and feelings; therefore the Creature is responsible for the tragedies in the book. The Creature was created by Victor.…

despair and loneliness. Is he a beast that should be hated or should this be a reason to pity him? It highlights the hate he has received and brings your focus to the question on how this describes how the real world is. The creatures describing his life and circumstances as worse than the Devils not only displays the pain…

Adolescence is a difficult time in anyone's life. Many teens are caught up between trying to be an adult and wanting to stay a child. There are certain characteristics that reflect which part a teen is stuck on, such as maturity. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden the narrator is greatly lacking in maturity. Throughout this novel he exemplifies that he is a very impulsive teen with the want to be an adult. Holden has many outbursts showing he has no control over his actions and is…

likeness of him to accompany him in life as a confidante and lover, for he knows no other human will ever bear to be able to look at him. Victor accepts, at first, but then changes his mind, destroying the work he had started on the female to the despair of the monster (Shelley 175). Unlike God, who heeds Adam’s wish to have a companion even amongst the animals and plant life (Gen. 1:18-22), Victor refuses, once again isolating his own creation from a better life. God did not discriminate nor…

Who is the Monster? Children all over the world have grown up relating the name “Frankenstein” to a hideous, terrifying monster. They grew up with the image of a monster made from body parts that were taken from a graveyard, put together into a creature by a mad scientist. There has always been a negative connotation to this name because of the terrible thoughts it brings to mind. The name “Frankenstein” is more commonly related to the monster, but people forget who’s name it actually is, the…

Reading and comprehending carefully, readers will notice the use of Biblical symbolism. A man full of knowledge, Victor Frankenstein, re-animates life by creating the monster. Victor Frankenstein believed that he would be blessed as “creator and source”. He classified himself as a god. In chapter fifteen, the monster reads Milton’s Paradise Lost. After reading this, the monster noticed that he was…

When children reach adolescence this is a visible sign that a change from the position of childhood protection to adulthood independence and freedom is being developed. According to “Erikson” adolescences are confronted with the decision of what they choose to become and who they want to be and where they want to end up in the future. By the time a child reaches this point of development their environmental, ethical, and social surrounding will have had a great influence on the choices they make…

In "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley, demonstrates the challenges and dangers of gaining too much knowledge. The misuse of knowledge can bring negative effects since it would interfere with nature, have failures on the use of the knowledge, and bring tragedies to people or society. In addition, the consequences of going out of the ordinary can be permanent or have bad effects. For instance, in "Frankenstein" it explains how Victor Frankenstein played God and created a monster that later on in…

Having a significant amount of knowledge and power to create and bring life into this world with the inovation of science can kead to a social destruction against man kind. Going against humanity and letting the power of science interfere with society with what us considered "normal" is frightining and morbid. In the classic novel, Frankeinstein by Mary Shelley, a life was created by Victor Frankenstein using the power of science and knowledge. Although Frankeinstein proved to himself that…

At the end of Chapter 12 in John Gardner’s novel Grendel, Grendel exclaims his final, dying words, “Poor Grendel’s had an accident… So may you all”. These words are meant to be a curse to all of the animals that are watching him die. In the book, Grendel describes these animals as “enemies of old” (Gardner 173) and also describes how “[the animals] watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying [his] destruction” (Gardner 174) which demonstrates his hatred towards these animals for watching him die…