Young Women

Teens everywhere in the world, tall or small, black or white, repeat certain actions, oblivious that they even do them. Overtime, however, our habits define us more than just our expressive attire; they make or break us. Sean Covey wrote the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens to inform teens to about the characteristics that happy and successful adolescents have in common. Through consistently choosing and applying the principles of Covey’s seven habits, teens increase personal power in…

They are different characteristics of the socioemotional development of an adolescence. Many people know this stage as the age of rebellion, out of control, irresponsible, and arrogance. However, there more things that teenagers are experiencing for the first time and not every one of them reacts the same to these changes. Apart from the physical changes of puberty, teenagers go through many emotional situations also due to the change in their hormones. They are situations in which an…

Perhaps one of the most emotionally appealing themes a writer can utilize is that of the social outcast endeavoring to find its place in the world, a theme utilized to great effect by both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre despite their character’s different fates, the former featuring a supposedly monstrous creation who is ultimately rejected wholly by society and the latter an orphan child who is eventually able to carve an admittedly precarious foothold as a…

Romanticism is a literary movement which is marked by several key components, many of which are observable in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. One element of Romanticism is the belief that imagination is able to lead to a a new and more perfect vision of the world and those who live in it. In this novel, Victor Frankenstein is the idealist who wants to create life from nothing; that is the ultimate ideal, marking victor as a Romantic. In another sense, Victor's actions demonstrate the Romantic…

he laments the creation of “the demoniacal corpse to which [he] had so miserably given life.” (Shelley 36). While this passage on its own does not show the destruction due to the absence of women, it reveals Victor’s regret for his actions that he otherwise would not have carried out, if he had had the women in his life to stop…

the voices of Walton, Frankenstein, and the Creature, but the stories of the female characters only appear briefly within these narratives. In fact, according to some literature scholars, “these three men who narrate their autobiographies push the women to the perimeter, relegating them to passively serving as an audience for male stories” (Davis 307). Shelley portrays the female characters as docile, submissive, and compassionate, which corresponds to the Victorian ideals of the female gender.…

Themes are the fundamentals and universal ideas that are often explored in literary text for my propose the text that will be explored is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Frankisten is about Victor Frankenstein and his journey in creating the creature that terrorizes his homeland and his own life. The book Frankenstein hold many themes that seemingly all cannot be expected but two themes in the story I believe can be the umbrella that holds all of the themes under it. The two themes that will be…

My Personal Journey "Listen to what I say, my companions, though you are suffering evils. All deaths are detestable for wretched mortals, but hunger is the sorriest way to die and encounter fate."(Odyssey book 3) Circe is referring to Skylla, a monster, in this quote. But, she makes a point. Pain is unavoidable. I had to find that out the hard way. A way I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. I soon got out of it. I screamed to the monsters in my head, "What did I do?" just like Odysseus did when he was…

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a masterpiece that explores the fascination of creating human life from nothing. Since this book was published in 1818, there have been many different recreations of the story throughout these past centuries. The movie Victor Frankenstein directed by Paul McGuigan is one recreation made in 2015 that has an interesting take on the characters in Shelley’s story. Although the film and novel share the same general plot, the movie loosely follows the novel's…

In spite of the title, Frankenstein rejects to be exclusively Victor’s story. This novel works to replace the individual voice with a labyrinth of voices. Shelley illustrates the notion of humanity as a production of multiple correspondences. Life itself overlapping, revealing connections, moving through past and present time: as do letters. Through the creation of Victor’s monster, human life exceeds the dimensions of any one individual, thus creating a parallel of impressions, each based upon…