Essays on Creature

Shelley in Frankenstein and Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther wrap their stories around two characters whose mental torment and physical actions are similar to one another. Both the stories deal with characters who are struggling to find happiness in their lives in the world they live in, but they could not because of rejection. Werther was seeking to be loved, and have a family with the girl she loved. On the other hand, the creature in Frankenstein was also seeking for a companion and people to relate with and call family because he was all alone. He was seeking ...

No doubt, creation, annihilation and conservation in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” provide a background for the exploration of the ruination and undoing of particular human attributes. “The Modern Prometheus,” the subtitle of Shelley’s novel further reinforces this notion. In fact, this notion is further reinforced by the fact that Shelley’s novel can be regarded as a modern version of the classic German legend of Faust. Shelley puts together the idea of the ruination of human attributes as a result of self-discovery as evidenced by Frankenstein, who claims that he has been blasted in hopes, and the same can be said ...

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley written in 1818 during the Romantic period and is a Gothic novel. The story is about a journey of the characters in the novel and about their quests and their relationships. The story begins with a man named Robert Walton exploring the North Pole where amidst the cold and mist Captain Walton comes across a lifeless man almost frozen in the ice. This man was Victor Frankenstein. It can be said that Captain Walton “saved” lifeless Frankenstein as compared to just keeping him alive for a week because what Captain Walton heard in that week was the ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, first published in 1818, has come to have a profound effect on literature, on science and on popular culture. Shelley’s story of an over-ambitious scientist who dreams of discovering the secret of creating life and does so, but with disastrous and fatal consequences is, we might say, well-known, but little-read. Zwinkler (24) writes with wry amusement about an informal survey he conducted among his own sophomores: most of them knew the novel from hearsay and thought that ‘Frankenstein’ was the name of the monster! The students’ visual image of the monster was based on Boris ...

Beowulf

Beowulf is an epic poem based on a great hero called Beowulf. He decides to help Hrothgar who was under attack by the monster Grendel. He defeats Grendel plus his mother and becomes king. After sometime, Beowulf dies after being badly wounded by a dragon which he defeated. Beowulf travelled in great places and distances while fighting against supernatural beings and demons. The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel (Streissguth 78). Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does ...

Introduction

Mary Shelley, born Wollstonecraft, was the daughter of philosopher and political writer William Godwin and famed feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Her early childhood was fraught with one sad event after the other and could therefore account for her starting an affair at the age of sixteen with Percy Bysshe Shelley. Although married at the time Shelley gave Mary all of his attention and they eventually ran away together. No consideration for anyone else here. In her life Mary faced a lot of loneliness and alienation, her mother died when she was born, her half-sister committed suicide and she lost three of ...

For my own part, I must confess that my interest in the book is entirely on the side of the monster. His eloquence and persuasion, of which Frankenstein complains, are so because they are truth. The justice is indisputably on his side, and his sufferings are, to me, touching to the last degree. (199) Frankenstein is full of terrible murders, and passionately-expressed emotions of enmity and hatred between Frankenstein and his creation. But who is most to blame for the series of murders which continue right to the very end of the novel when Victor dies on Robert ...

Monster Madness

July 17 Theme of Isolation and Loneliness The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel’s character. Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does not belong to the community. The loneliness and isolation Grendel felt made him the monster he was, he desired to belong to the humans in the community but they isolated him. The exclusion from the rest of the community pushed him into becoming a hideous and cruel beast with a hard heart and thirst ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a Gothic horror classic. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the dangers of knowledge, especially as the book posits that the pursuit ...

Like Father, Like Son

Victor Frankenstein and the creature he created are a mirror of each others personality for they share the same personalities in Shelley’s book and are truly like father like son. They were both demonic and monstrous in the lives they lived. The creature Victor created is referred to as a demon that is killing and causing havoc everywhere and indeed these acts are demonic. The creature victor created killed without mercy. Victor on the other hand shows his demonic nature by trying to play God by creating a human being for his himself, he wanted to be worshipped by the creature ...

In the wake of the second world war and with the entry into what would come to be known as the “nuclear age”, the world knew that nothing would be the same in the second half of the 20th century. Arguably, nobody felt the dawn of the nuclear age greater than Japan following the devastation and chaos caused by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. First-hand accounts of the bombings were frightening; people screaming, fleeing, desperate to find cover, while a blinding light and a sudden blazing heat suddenly filled the air, followed swiftly by an ominous roar, a steady rumble would follow, ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a horror classic. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the guilt and horror Mary Shelley felt about her many dead children. In ...

Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein puts to question some burning questions that stir the mind of the avid reader. It questions certain societal ills in the course of the novel as explores the causes and the repercussions. The novel addresses the issue of paramount importance of parental guidance and love. It portrays the heartless society that readily alienates anyone not conforming to the norms. It shows the painful journey of the Victor’s creation due to lack of nurture. Victor is the tragic hero who is referred to as the Prometheus of the day. The novel reiterates that ethical ...

English Literature

Mary Shelley’s classic, Frankenstein, can be read in a number of ways but the most common is with a focus on the monstrous creation of Doctor Frankenstein; the confusion being whether the name ‘Frankenstein’ refers to the creation or the creator. It is highly likely that Shelley would have left this deliberately ambiguous so as to raise the question of who is the real monster in the novel. It is fair to say that society is often damning of any new concept or idea and does not fail to live up to expectations in this novel. Here, we witness the ...

The brutal fact of death is one that has puzzled humanity from the beginning of time, and one of humanity’s first quests was to find a way around it. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the hero travels to the underworld to find the secret to eternal life, to bring his friend back from the dead. However, after receiving the secret, he then loses it while carelessly taking a bath, as a snake eats the magical plant. Nathaniel Hawthorne also noted the fact that death will intervene whether we are ready for it or not: “[t]he founders of a new colony, whatever ...

In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelly draws parallels between Victor Frankenstein and the monster and aptly portrays how the two characters are linked to each other depending on several common traits which thy share. Victor admires the nature saying, “Happy, happy earth! Fit habitation for gods” (Shelly 127). In times of desolation, bereaved of his loved ones, Victor seeks the solace to his solace from nature. He wishes to strengthen his shattered spirits imbibing the sustenance from nature and it becomes his personal therapy. Even the monster’s love for nature is evident in the course of the novel ...

Stephen King’s essay entitled “My Creature From The Black Lagoon” is a piece that he has written about seeing the 1954 movie “Creature From The Black Lagoon”. It was a horror film that was set in the Amazon Basin. He recalls seeing it is a child, about seven years old and recounts how he felt during that time. He also speaks about his childhood, living with his mother and remembering her three boyfriends. It was when he first felt fear from a horror film, no matter how unrealistic it might have been – he tells of how his seven year old self reacted ...

Compare and contrast Dr. Frankenstein and his monster

Compare and contrast Dr. Frankenstein and his monster

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, many similarities can be drawn between Victor and his creation. For example, each of them had a great thirst for knowledge that led them to their deaths. What Victor Frankenstein created is very much like the way he felt himself because he felt as if he had been cast away from his own society. However much damage they have done to the society in the end both of them are still remorseful for what they have done. Though Victor and the creature may be different, these similarities ...

The tale of Frankenstein is a book full of reflections on humanity; the flipside. The work is full of ideas of how humanity can utilize or misuse knowledge for varying purposes. At inception, Mary Shelly would not have thought of how her work would turn out to be an epitome of today’s society. From alienated individuals, unethical scientific practices, the secret of life, and rejection; the book manages to reflect the society from an individual to a societal level. These lessons are intertwined and imparted in a manner parallel to the current contentious issues. At the beginning, Victor Frankenstein, a young, talented ...

Frankenstein is a fictional story written by Mary Shelly. It was later adapted into a movie version, which was directed by James Whales. There are more differences than similarities between the book and the movie. This is because; the movie is mainly based on the 1920’s play, other than the original Mary Shelly’s book Frankenstein. A text has to be altered in one way or the other while making a movie due to a number of obvious factors. A lot of details from the book were missing in the movie, but the changes made by Whales were effective as they made ...

Understanding the sublimity of the Romanticist literary movement related to nature's effect on the human psyche considers the method Mary Shelly embodies the concept in her story of the Monster creator, Victor, and the Monster in "Frankenstein". According to Gingold, the sublime seeks elevating human senses through a physical reaction causing shivers and emotionally lifting the soul. At the same time, Gingold cites Edmund Burke who proclaimed subliminal influence on the most profound human emotion was to create fear and thus leave an uncomfortable sense of awareness in humans of their "utter insignificance" (2013). The subliminal effect most prevalent in ...

Classic English literature: research essay

«Frankenstein» is a novel by an English writer Mary Shelley, which comprises the features of romantic and gothic literature. The book was published twice – in 1818 and in 1831 with a small but significant change in the second case, which influenced the plot, the main character to be more exact. The idea to create a story about life and death put together in one person appeared when 18 year old Mary with her future husband Percy came to visit Lord Byron. While having the discussion in the living room, Byron offered to tell horror stories just to liven up the atmosphere. ...

Science fiction is a fairly new genre in the spectrum of literature; the earliest practitioners include Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells and even Mark Twain (if you’ve read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, then you’ve read an early work of science fiction) – both of whom wrote in the nineteenth century. Some of this has a lot to do with the fact that science and technology did not really take off until the early 1800’s, which brought the Industrial Revolution. What with steam engines powering vast machines, the imagination of writers soon foresaw the wonders that those ...

Hermes and Cernunnos are some of the most popular Greek and Celtic deities revered in their respective religious practices. The two deities were regarded as gods and were discharged with specific duties to perform in line with their doctrinal practices. As much as they are important deities, they have a lot of differences between. This is mainly because they were worshipped in by different people who knew their essence in fulfilling their spiritual pursuits. The following are the major differences between these deities.

First, Hermes was a Greek god of commerce and market trade. This is a responsibility which was bestowed upon ...

Introduction

There is a long history when it comes to the incorporation of monsters into narratives and stories. Many authors found the monster genre to be quite attractive to the audience and, therefore, in the 19th and the early 20th Century; there was a rise in the number of monster stories authored by different writers. Some of the most famous works of literature that have incorporated the element of monsters include “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley (1818), “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1818), “The Invisible Man (1897) and “Dracula” (1897). Many of these monster narratives have been such hits ...

The two science fiction short stories written by the prominent American writers Isaac Asimov and Avram Davidson are the examples of brilliancy in their genre. Both, “The Golem” written by Davidson in 1955 and “Reason” written by Asimov in 1941 share similar themes and details of the plot, although the settings and the development of the stories are very different. The stories gradually unfold the intricacies of the encounters of humans and intelligent robots, whose views on the world are very different. The meeting of two dissimilar kinds of mind produces difficulties both for the robots and people, and ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

The Frankenstein Application Essay Mencius, a Chinese scholar who lived between 372—289 B.C.E., argues that human beings are innately good natured, and this nature can either be allowed to flower through education and self-discipline or dissipated by negative influences. Another example from ancient Asian tradition includes Valmiki, the author of the great Hindu epic Ramayana, who was a thief by profession, but was transformed through his experiences and went on to become a great thinker of his times. These examples raise an age old question - nature or nurture, which one shapes the personality of a human being. Mary Shelley’s ...

The moon rises high in the sky, its silvery light creating an eerier aura, as the screams of a woman echoes through the landscape. The creature turns its head attracted by the sounds of pain and fear as it rips through the veil between the living and dead. “The night of Samhain,” it thinks, “the perfect night for escape.” As the time when the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest, Samhain is the time signally the end of lightness and the beginning of darkness. Exhausted creature slides down to the Earth, the first time it had been ...

Compare and Contrast the Characters of Faustus and Frankenstein

Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are stories that delve deep into the quest of an individual in acquiring transcendental knowledge. While Faustus decides to get on with the pact with Lucifer to fulfill his thirst for attaining paramount abilities beyond the realm of conventional knowledge, Victor aims to stretch the boundaries of his scientific discovery beyond the scope of credulity. Both succeed in their ambitions, but are left with remorse and misfortune. They fail to reverse the rule of the world and fall victims in the brutal hands of inevitability and fate. The literary ...

Analysis of Viewpoints: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is an enduring, time-tested work of fiction that poses many questions that are fundamental to the common human experience. At the end of the novel, Frankenstein’s creation becomes cognizant of his place in the world, and claims that he will commit suicide. Some claim that the creation’s suicide is inevitable, but others claim that it is the creation’s choice. The potential suicide also brings up another question: which is the true monster, the creation or the man who created it and did not take responsibility for it? The class examined these ...

One of the more fascinating traits of humanity is the tendency to reflect, and to create art on the basis of that reflection. Even in the days before writing, cave paintings and the oral tradition of storytelling demonstrated the ways that people expressed their feelings – taking the time after winning, even if only briefly, the struggle against the demands of subsistence to leave a product behind, for posterity. Even the earliest recorded examples of literature, such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, poignantly express the struggles that humanity faced when dealing with such abstractions as mortality and grief. Even the most ...

1 a) The research is essential in that it gives new different approaches that the ancestors employed in getting around. As much as this may contradict the initial information available about bipedalism, it gives another insight on how movement was achieved in the ancient times by the ancestors. 1 b) By saying that Australopithecus sediba had a combination of primitive and derivative features, the authors of the article aim to reveal how the Australopithecus sediba had a combination of qualities of both the modern man and the ancient man. Essentially, these features were in the upper limb, hand, foot, spine and others ...

Lusus Naturae is a story written by Margaret Atwood. It is a story about a girl who had to deal with her appearance because she was unlike from the other family members. While Frankenstein, is story written by Mary Shirley. It is story about a hideous monster that was created by Victor Frankenstein, and left him to wander all alone in the world. Shelley in Frankenstein and Atwood in Lusus Naturae, wrap their stories around two characters whose physical appearance are similar to one another (Mays 289). Both the stories deal with characters who are struggling to live with the people around them, ...

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, stands tall as a classic horror novel that is considered to be one of the most important works of Gothic literature. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who attempts to engineer a new body through the various limbs of other dead bodies he secrets away, reanimating them through his particular brand of quack science. The morality of Victor Frankenstein is constantly called into question, from his playing God by attempting to create new life to his mistreatment and misunderstanding of the poor creature he creates. Frankenstein is by no means a hero, but neither is he a demon: he ...

Gothic horror literature is a very specific type of fiction that started in the late 18th century as an offshoot of Romantic literature. Gothic literature often deals with the macabre and the terrifying – its subject matter is uniquely dark and brooding, with deeply entrenched subtexts about the changing nature of the world, and mankind’s fear of the unknown. According to Fincher, the "Gothic novel reflects a deep anxiety in eighteenth-century culture about the changing status of masculinity and femininity in a period of political and social change" (Fincher, 2001). A great deal of Gothic horror fiction deals with the changing or ...

“Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?” (165). Mary Shelley has written her novel in such a way that she strongly succeeds in convincing her readers that the monster created by Dr. Victor Frankenstein is nothing but a “vile insect” (68) that should be furiously loathed and disdained. However, is Frankenstein’s monster really the villain as Shelly has portrayed him to be and as Victor believes him to be, or is he, in fact, a victim in this story, a “fallen angel” who was driven “joy for no misdeed” (69)? After reading ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a Gothic horror classic. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the dangers of knowledge, especially as the book posits that the pursuit ...

In the mid-1910s, World War I was beginning, the 20th century was becoming industrialized, and a whole new world was upon us. As these changes altered the world, so did they change the nature of art. Both art and music responded to these unique developments in interesting ways. Some, like Gustav Holst, the composer of The Planets, looked outward to the stars, while others, like Edward Munch in his painting The Scream, looked inward at the existential horrors of what lay ahead. Both of these works are created in distinct ways, using similar artistic language to convey wildly different ideas. ...

In the film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) Dr. Victor Frankenstein did indeed have a moral responsibility to the creature he brought into the world, since he had quite literally decided to play God and make this monster out of dead body parts. He then compounded his arrogance by rejecting his own creation, which still had the mind of an infant, and leaving it alone to wander the earth. He had carried out these experiments with the best of intentions, with an obsession to create a new kind of superhuman species that would never experience illness, old age or death. In ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a horror classic. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the guilt and horror Mary Shelley felt about her dead child. In many ways, Frankenstein's monster is at once Shelley's dead child and Shelley herself; struggling to find life and belonging in a world that simply does not want it. Frankenstein's mistakes as a parent ...

The relationship between man and animal is often explored in literary works, and poetry is no exception. In Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," a man catches a fish, but after scrutinizing him carefully and noting the array of fish hooks already in the fish's jaw, the fisherman releases it back into the water. D.H. Lawrence's "Snake" depicts a man at a water trough, who soon finds a snake drinking with him. After considering what others would say about him not killing the snake, he finds he both respects the snake and misses it when he is gone. In both works, the speakers have feelings of ...

The following is a layman’s version on the processes that produced the first intelligent, sentient creature, the human being. The paper will address the time through the forest- savannah transition in east Africa and through to the first hand axe and spear making, a period of approximately three million years ago. The paper will propose probable events that might have occurred during that time. The pre-human ancestors went from among the weakest and defenseless prey on the plains of African grassland to the voracious terror of the modern world, within an interval of approximately one million years. How did that ...

Aliens Films (1979-1997)

What is the significance of events in films? Are all the bits and pieces in films intentionally included by directors? These are some of the questions I asked myself as I set out on a comprehensive analysis of the audience message in the Aliens Films (1979-1997). According to film analyst Greg Smith, different events in films are not to be treated as accidental encounters of random occurrence and spontaneity. They are instead purposefully planned series of events with cause and effect and with nothing left to chance (Greg 128). Greg explains that Hollywood films are inadvertently one of the most ...

Mary Shelley’s literary treatise ‘Frankenstein’ originally published in the year 1818 falls in the genre of horror fiction. Shelley gives an account of the ethical issues present in technological developments and researches. She discusses the relation of a monster and its creator Victor Frankenstein, who possesses a deep passion for science and research. Out of his burning desire, Frankenstein creates a monster, which acts inhumane and destroys the lives of the human beings it encounters unable to withstand the unacceptability in the society. As a result of his creation, Frankenstein loses all his near and dear, and decides to end his life ...

A werewolf is a person presented in folklore, superstition or in mythical stories as a human being who is capable of changing into a wolf, at the complete rising of the full moon, while retaining human intelligence. Throughout the history, the myth of the werewolf was used in a lot of stories having different interpretation of the creature. For a better understanding of this evolution, I will pick two different stories regarding werewolf, in different historical periods, medieval and modern and, I will discuss how time passing influences the aspects of the werewolf. For the medieval period I have chosen one of the ...

The 1931 James Whale film Frankenstein bears, at times, little more than a surface resemblance to the original Mary Shelley novel on which it was based, Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus. One of the few distinct parallels that the book and film share beyond their core concept is a scene in which the monster interacts with an innocent little girl near a body of water. However, whereas in the book the monster saves the girl from drowning, Boris Karloff’s monster in the film unknowingly drowns the girl, only realizing what he had done far too late. The difference in these two scenes ...

Asian horror, as a genre, carries with it a generous mix of scathing subtext and grotesque images. Whether witnessing the wrath of an uncanny ghost girl, seeing people murdered in mountains of gore, or the many subtle avenues in between, many of the best Asian horror films combine shocking sights with potent messages in order to convey an anxiety present in that society at the time. "Setting aside the moral ramifications of such manifest extremities, we can identify the current boom enjoyed by Asian horror and extreme cinema and discern a complex nexus of local, regional and global relationships in play" (Choi ...

The tensions associated with robotic development in modern culture mirror many of the tensions that have informed the interactions that people have with technological advances. While the twentieth century began in an atmosphere of optimism in the face of the technological promise of the twentieth century, the events that the new technology brought to pass served as a major impediment to the development of that optimism. Between the years 1914 and 1945, the world saw the advent of the armored tank, the bomber and fighter in the air, rockets carrying bombs, mustard gas and other biological weapons, the use of ...

Introduction

First published in 1818, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been one of the most renowned novels in the world of science fiction, Victor Frankenstein’s, the antagonist, is successfully able to use a dead body to create a creature. The creature has more capabilities compared to the contemporary human being. The so called “Frankenstein’s monster’ lacks the ability to interact with mankind. Mankind seems to reject its cooptation to society often viewing the creature as being the ‘other’ within the societal hierarchical framework. By spying on a poor family the monster realizes that it is not part of society and therefore ...

When Blood is The Path

In every literary work, certain character has its place and role given by the author. Main characters are usually the easiest ones to read and understand their meaning for the narration and author's attitude to them. On the other hand, secondary characters serve a different purpose. They are often used to unravel depth of main heroes' characters and mode of actions. On the other hand, sometimes the meaning of secondary characters and the reason why author pays attention to them might be not evident at all. This is the case of Dr. Seward's patient Renfield in Bram Stoker's "Dracula". " ...

Discuss the ways Native American women are presented in two myths.

Within the Native American culture, the role of the women has always been a specifically designated one which seems them performing certain roles and jobs. In the two stories presented here, The Deer Woman and The Yellow Woman, women are presented as fulfilling the role of ‘the other’ with their association with significantly supernatural occurrences: in the former, the reader is presented with a woman who can shape-shift and who presents herself differently to various people; in the latter, the reader is presented with a woman who is swept away by a mysterious stranger who does not function properly within mainstream society. The ...

Copleston and Russell argued upon the metaphysical disagreement on the existence of God. This paper is an attempt to unravel the meanings behind Copleston’s arguments and to comprehend it further to be able to support the reality of God’s existence.

Copleston and Russell first agreed upon their understanding about the term “God”. By “God”, they mean the highest personal Being who is the creator of the world. The metaphysical argument was agreed upon by the two to be based from Leibniz’s argument about contingency.

Copleston explains that a 'contingent' being is a creature that possesses ...

The cannon of human literature is littered with instances of human beings trying to aspire to the level of creators. There are many examples in different cultures of mankind suffering consequences when aspiring to the level of creation that these societies reserves for the gods. Ready examples include the Adam and Eve story in which humankind tastes from a tree of knowledge. Another example is that of Prometheus, the god who brought woes on humankind by given it the gift (or was it the curse?) of fire. In more modern times films and literature reflect this same human concern. The ...

Introduction

Arguably one among the most prominent European gothic novels, Frankenstein is one of the stories that have evoked various reactions and criticisms from different scholars and gurus in European and American literature. Having been cited as one among the most common science fiction novels, Frankenstein covers a wide array of themes, making the book qualify for numerous argumentative topics among scholars. The story, whose main characters are a monster and a human being, who apparently is the creator of the monster, is set in Europe during the gothic period. Among the many scholars that have sort to criticize, analyze and carry out ...

In the history of human civilization, stories always had educative role. In the literary works of fiction, authors use diverse images and symbols in order to trigger a particular reflection from the audience. On the other hand, some authors use traditional images in new contexts in order to stimulate a different reaction and challenge the audiences’ perception of traditional images. In other words, authors often argue that the same images can have different meaning and perception in different cultures and different times. The best example of this is a perception of monsters in different times. The aim of this paper is to ...

Probably one of the strongest and most effective horror films, if not the strongest and most effective, ever produced since the start of the century is the Babadook. It centers on the development of both the issues of the mother-son relationship, and the introduction of a new kind of fear designed with a looming and formidable presence of a mysterious figure. However, this horror film does not rely on jump scares to introduce fear to the audience, but it develops a strong storyline that is presented with both psychological and physical fear. Overall, this film is an incredible masterpiece that brings hysteria and sorrow, ...

Literary Criticism of T. S. Eliot’s Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Introduction

The poem Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock feels as fresh to the readers now as it did to Ezra Pound when he first read it. Among other traits, Prufrock exhibits qualities of a characteristic example of modernism in literature, a literary work from the era of literary history that stood towering for its capability for never repeating the same act twice. The poem is a great example of characteristic qualities of modernist poetry namely fragmentation, montage and objective correlative. The narrator T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J ...

The Kokako (Callaeas cinereus) is an imperiled timberland feathered creature which is endemic to New Zealand. It is slate-light black with wattles and a dark veil. It is one of three types of New Zealand Wattlebird, the other two being the close undermined Tieke (saddleback) and the wiped out Huia. Beforehand far reaching, Kokako populaces all around New Zealand have been wrecked by the predations of mammalian obtrusive species, for example, possums, stoats, felines and rats and their reach has contracted essentially. There are two sub-types of Kokako, North Island and South Island, in spite of the fact that the ...

The topic on the existence of God is perhaps one of the most equivocal topics that have generated an immense debate amongst various population segments all around the globe. In fact, this topic has evolved into one of the most contentious topics all over the globe. Notably, there exists various arguments postulated regarding the existence of God. Nonetheless, the ontological argument devised by Anselm on Gods existence is perhaps one of the most substantive arguments that support that notion on Gods existence. Anselm’s argument on God’s existence asserts that Gods existence is indeed true based on the ...

Revolution is often; if not always, bloody, and there cannot be a revolution without rebels. These rebels become the hero of their society. If the early American heroes such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and many others had not resisted the power of the British Crown, the American Revolution would have never come to past. These freedom fighters, in search of liberty and freedom, rebelled against a powerful government, though they were the underdog, they won. Not every rebel is a revolutionist, however, anyone who defies authority or convention is a rebel. In the article titled “The Hero in Spite of Himself”, Rosette ...