Essays on Frightful

M. Shelly "Frankenstein", E. Pauline Johnson " A Red Girl's Reasoning", E. Dickinson "poems 260, 269, 320, 340, 353, 479, 1096

Introduction:

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, E Pauline Johnson’s ‘A Red Girl’s Reasoning’ and Emily Dickinson’s poetry all explore what can be seen to be similar themes such as doomed love, unrequited passions and identity. Metaphor is also present in Dickinson’s poetry where the allegorical nature of her writings arouses feelings of intimate passion on a smaller yet no less powerful scale. One can observe an indelible link between all three female authors who were concerned with love ...

Both Frankenstein’s monster and Blade Runner are two intrinsically different characters which are historically alien to what we perceive as being normal. However the monster created by Victor Frankenstein is by far the most loathsome and reviled in history and the physical sense of the monster is rooted in Mary Shelley’s almost ghoulish imagination especially due to the fact that she was obsessed with the gothic and the mysterious. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner also focuses on monsters of sorts and these are the human replicants who are out doing all sorts of menial jobs for humans ...

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 ...