Essays on The Creature

Gothic literature encompasses horror stories as well as darker supernatural forces. Such literature focuses on the destructive desires and irrational aspects of human nature. The term Gothic literature is derived from the unrestrained, majestic, grotesque or savage medieval architectural styles. Gothic literature is, therefore, associated with barbarism or savagery. “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga is an example of gothic literature.

Vampirism

The blood -sucking spider-like creature in The Feather Pillow depicts elements of vampirism. The awful spider-like blood sucking creature, which is swollen with victim’s blood, depicts clear aspects of vampirism. Specifically, the creature inhabiting the feather pillow ...

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, prejudice (which is basically an opinion made on a person due to the way they look, the color of their skin, their religion and how the dress) and perceptions of a person based on their appearance play an important role in the events that occur in the book. One can see this is both the treatment of the creature and later in the story of the fall of the DeLacey family. This paper will look at the prejudices in the novel and if and how they still exist today. We can see ...

Psychological studies conducted in the last fifty years have found that social isolation has a profound negative affect on people. This is because humans by nature are social creatures, who need and thrive of off physical and emotional connections. This is one reason that that isolation is used by prisons and in torture as the separation is expected to make the person more likely to conform to expectation. Many people who have been socially isolated for long periods of time begin to experience negative effects such as, hallucinations, high blood pressure, increase in illness, verbal and rational reasoning skills ...

The modern society places huge expectations of conformity on the individual, forcing them to question their identity and place in the society. Parental presence and acceptance, class, income, race and physical appearance become important in how well individuals get accustomed to the often rigid demands of the society they live in. Philosophers, poets and novelists throughout history have written about the feeling of abandonment by a parental figure or a class and the resultant agony it brings to their protagonists. Werther in The Sorrows of Young Werther, the creature in Frankenstein, Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse and Bartleby ...

Perhaps one of the most influential stories in the 20th century was Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was published in 1818. This book was considered by many to be one of the forerunners of the science fiction genre. It tells the story of a scientist named Victor Frankenstein and how he unlocked the secret to creating life. Thus, he created an artificial being that he abandoned later on. This abandonment, along with other events that transpired, has caused the creature to turn evil and devoted in destroying his creator. There are many themes and issues that can be derived from the central theme of the story. One of these themes concerns the ...

That a man should hate oneself is a common phenomenon, which everyone experiences once in a while, because of people’s intrinsic flaws. These flaws ramify into people’s creations such that there is not one thing a man has created, which does not have to endure a measure of hatred from the rest of society. The creature in Frankenstein is no different from men’s inventions, whose hideous nature was not apparent at the time of their inception, and abhorred for what passed as evil yet not appreciated for the utility its creator envisaged. The guiding question for ...

Frankenstein is a novel which deals with immortality and human nature to achieve it with the help of science. It was written by Mary Shelley and it got published in 1818. This novel belongs to the genre of science fiction and it deal with the dark side of human nature and the fact that people are interested in creating life in order to be God-like which leads to failure. The story begins with Robert Walton who is at the North Pole where he meets Victor Frankenstein. Walton gives him shelter on his ship and he is told the story ...

It is believed by many scholars like Ellen Moers, who wrote Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother that when Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly wrote Frankenstein, she wrote the story as a reflection of her own fears and issues with parenting. I also think that Shelley may have felt that her offspring were somehow against the laws of nature and that this is why most of them died at birth or in early infancy. Where Victor only had created life from the confines of death, she herself brought death from what should have been life. This of course was no fault ...

Analysis of the novel

“Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” is an outstanding work by Mary Shelley who focuses on the deep exploration of various feelings, emotions, motives, and actions pervading the human mind. At first glance, the book appears quite simple, and the characters are easy to criticize and judge. However, by the end of “Frankenstein,” I was impressed by its depth and major topics covered by the writer. The style of this masterpiece also impressed me. Besides, Mary Shelley has a great ability to present details and depicts the Swiss scenery in a highly vivid manner. In my opinion, with the achievements ...

Analysis of Sphinx

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.) was a period of significant transformation in ancient Egypt. It was during this period that older cultural principles and artistic conventions revived. The changes that characterize the Middle Kingdom 1 can be seen in its architecture, culture, jewelry, literature, paintings and reliefs. The focus of the essay is to analyze the “Sphinx of King Senwosret” from Thebes, Karnak temple in Dynasty 12 and describe the artwork visually. It looks behind the political or symbolic meaning and why the Sphinx a really important symbol.

Sphinx of King Senwosret III

Sphinx of King Senwosret dates back to 1878–1840 ...

Marquez’ worldwide reputation of a prolific and outstanding author is undeniable. His international recognition reached its peak in 1982 when he got the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because of the poverty of Colombia, Marquez experienced and witnessed economic and social inequity that was one of the most dramatic on the Latin American continent. Marquez employs national history to produce plots that surprise readers because of the writer’s ability to combine techniques of the fantastic and realism. To be more exact, Marquez was the master of a style, which is known as magic realism. It helped the author to ...

Frankenstein is the main character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s gothic novel also known as Modern Prometheus. She is influenced by ideas and a dream from a summer holiday in Switzerland. During the summer holiday, she and her companions had shared and read German ghost stories, and then one of them, Bryan Lord suggested that they have a competition to see who would come up with the best horror story (Mary 15). One of them had suggested that corpses could also be re-animated, this brought to Shelley’s mind the idea of galvanism. During one of the nights she ...

Monsters are creatures that everyone is told that lurks in the darkness of the night. They are hideous, grotesque creatures and would kill you as soon as they look at you. It is something inhuman that has no regard for life, life, and anything good in the world. Mary Shelly brought to life a monster in her novel Frankenstein. She lures the audience into believing that the monster Victor Frankenstein created is the true horror of the novel. However, if one were to examine the deeds of Victor Frankenstein he would take the honor of being the real monster ...

Abstract

Mermaids have remained the creatures of mythology for quite some time now, and they are also being featured in many of the present day movies and TV shows apart from the children’s cartoons. That is all well for we know that these media are a work of fiction, but shockingly enough, the subject has very recently come up but this time, the classification has not remained in the genre of fiction. Today people are asking if mermaids could actually exist or if the myths had come out of a few very overactive imaginations. The controversial issue has become ...

Creation is defined as the act of bringing something into existence, and the creation of man itself is normally attributed to procreation or an act of some divine being. Humans have for a long time marveled over the act of creation and its many varying concepts, including the prospect of creating another in their own image. In Mary Shelley’s fictional exploration of this theme in her novel Frankenstein, the rise and fall of scientist Victor Frankenstein showcases both the wonder and the downfall of mankind in his endless quest for the creative power of the divine. Once Victor ...

Donna Haraway attempts to create an ambiguous political myth that supports the concepts of materialism, socialism, and feminism. She formulates the analogy of a cyborg by using gender to create a manifesto of the creature’s power. The cyborg that is central to her myth entails a cybernetic being that is a hybrid of an organism and a machine. It is a creature of science fiction as well as a creature of reality. The cyborg is utilized as a metaphor for new technology and political and postmodern identity. This essay provides a succinct evaluation of the primary ideas in ...

In the article, The Stanford Prison Experiment by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo, he describes an experiment that was aimed at demonstrating the influence of situational power on a person’s standards, morals, and attitudes. The experiment intended to explore the relationship between the guards and the prisoners, which ended up showing a deterioration of the established rules and morals that guide the manner in which individuals should behave towards each other. In that, the experiment showed the degeneration of character was so extreme, rapid, and unpredicted to the extent that it was to be cut short after six days, ...

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley is an English writer who was born on August 30, 1797. Among her works it is possible to mention The Last Man, Valperga, Lodore and other. However, her most famous novel is Frankenstein. The idea of writing a horror story was proposed by Lord Byron. It was at this time when Shelley started to work at her novel Frankenstein which was written in 1818. The book immediately became a success. In fact, it is still considered as one of the most successful books of the 19th century and there ...

Literature is entertaining and provides valuable lessons on various subjects to the reader. A writer must use different methods to pass their message across to the reader. Some of the time, the idea maybe plain, but possess a hidden meaning to engage the reader’s mind. The methods used by writers in accomplishing this fete are known as literacy devices. There are several literacy devices that play various roles in literature: chiefly among them is the theme of the story. Writers tell a story through the characters and reveal the theme through the events in the story. For instance, ...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2 (March 1818): 613-20—by Walter Scott

Scott’s thesis is essentially that supernatural or unnatural situations are permissible in literature as long as the characters still behave in human ways. "personages shall conduct themselves, in the extraordinary circumstances in which they are placed, according to the laws of probability, and the nature of the human heart."(Scott). In the story Frankenstein is portrayed as a man, who is educated, intelligent, well-liked and curious. This curiosity would lead him to create his creature as he sought to understand and control the nature of life and death. Scott points out that as the creature becomes more educated, ...

Sphinx of King Senwosret is dated back to 1878–1840 B.C. and is from Upper Egypt, belonging to the Middle Kingdom period. The Sphinx makes an imposing structure with its impressive mane and sturdy posture, guardians against evil. Lions have been associated with royalty even since prehistoric times. It was discovered in Thebes and is made of the block of grained anorthosite gneiss from Nubian quarries 1. Modern historical science divides Egyptian dynasties as the Old Kingdom, the New Kingdom and the Late Period that are separated by Intermediate Periods. Senusret III is one of the best-demonstrated kings of ...

Creation is defined as the act of bringing something into existence, and is normally attributed to procreation or an act of some divine being. Humans have for a long time marveled over the act of creation and its many varying concepts, not the least of which includes the prospect of creating another in their own image. Despite being fictional, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein showcases both the wonder and the downfall of creation. The fascination with creation leads only to revelation of the self. As illustrated by author Robert Horton the story of Frankenstein is a perfect example of how ...

In the 1976 publication of Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry, Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon present the physical symbol system as a means of perfecting artificial intelligence and bringing it as close to human intelligence as possible. According to the authors, because physical symbol systems “are capable of intelligent action,” then all general intelligent action[s] that humans are capable of must engage a physical symbol system (Newell and Simon 118). Subsequently, just as biologists understand the cell as the basic unit in living organisms, symbols make up the “roots of intelligent action” (Newell and Simon 119). For ...

In this poem, the first-person narrator tells of a fish that he has caught in his “rented boat,” and goes on to contemplate its many features, its history, and what it means that he has caught it again. The use of imagery and sensory language is astounding, allowing us to vividly see the relationship that develops between man and fish, the fisherman’s respect and admiration for the creature growing with each notice of its many features. With this in mind, Bishop appeals to our many senses and manages to place us in the role of the fisherman, creating a visceral ...