Young Women

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…

The story of Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley in 1916, shows Victor Frankenstein and his craving for knowledge and testing the limits of science. Within the text he creates a living being, made up of dead body parts he steals from graves. He planned to create a beautiful being to revolutionise society and was motivated to not allow death after the death of his mother just before his departure to University. The creature however does not live up to what Frankenstein wanted and he rejects the…

Set in the year 2019, with majority of the film taking place in a futuristic Los Angeles, Blade Runner is a movie about a retired police officer Rick Deckard who is the protagonist and a “blade runner”, Blade runners track down bioengineered beings known as replicants and retire them which means destroying them. On the surface the movie seems to be a manhunt movie of the hero chasing down these evil villains who have escaped and are out causing trouble, but from my view it seems to be more about…

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Frankenstein and the Monster explore a relationship of anger. Frankenstein desires to show his extreme anger to the Monster. However, the method used by Frankenstein appears to achieve the opposite. This is as it initially appears that Frankenstein’s expression of anger is conveyed through solidifying the Monster’s intellect. Upon closer examination, it is shown that this is not the true expression of anger. Rather, in order to show the greatest possible…

that he gathered wood for this family that he stole food from, not realizing at the time the family is unhappy, because the old man is blind and the family is in poverty and esurient. Then the monster learns to read from that family thanks to the young man Felix, teaching Safie ,an Arabian woman, to read because she does not speak the language that Felix and Agatha, his sister, do so the monster decides to sit down and learn. So, one day while all the kids are out for a walk, the creature enters…

man the girl came with saw his appearance and automatically assumed he was trying to harm the girl which made Frankenstein vow eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. Later on Frankenstein ran into a little boy and hoped that the boy was too young to judge based on looks that way he’d have someone to accept him but says, “As soon as he beheld my form. he placed his hands before his eyes and uttered a shrill scream”(Shelley 61). The creature found out the boy was his creator’s son so he…

This quote, from one of Walton's letters to his sister on his voyage north, explains more of the story of Frankenstein, than one expects. Frankenstein explores the creation life and existence through an unorthodox way. The creation of everything we know is unclear to us, and is questioned by those who believe in religion and those who believe in science on and everyday basis. One of the five major competencies that the Intellectual Heritage Program says students should be able to do by the…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein displays a vast amount of emotions that vary from morose, melancholic anguish, to unfathomable ire. There are six scenes which stood out due to the tone and atmosphere revolving around those junctures. When Victor is faced with the death of his mother, he becomes despondent, when Elizabeth is murdered, he is dejected and feels a sense of loss like no other, this can be intensified with music which reciprocates that feeling.In addition, Victor is tormented and…

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein death is a recurring motif which is linked to destruction, revenge and monstrosity, however it is deaths inextricable link with life which challenged 20th century audiences and critiques. Victor Frankenstein conducted his experiment with the intention of creating life by bring together the world of the living and dead “appeared to me ideal bounds,” by overturning the limits of life he wished to be the first to create a formula for cheating death. Victor not only…

In this novel, Victor Frankenstein, the main character, proves to have a God-like superiority. Victor has created different Adam. This idea is emphasized when the Creature states that he feels like Adam, after he finishes reading Paradise Lost. "Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence" (80). God was the first to create life, thus showing Victor's God-like superiority. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, the main character, proves to have a…