...In Frankenstein Mary Shelley gives a small glimpse into the mind of Victor Frankenstein. To encourage movement the gothic genre is intensely used throughout the novel. To set the mood, a gothic setting is used to give specific details of weather, sounds, and the environment. Mary Shelley also uses irrational fear to keep the tone of a gothic novel. Without the gothic tone, Frankenstein would not be as impactful of a novel. First, one use of how gothic genre sets the mood is the setting. Use of certain time periods, weather, sounds, and environments keep the gothic tone consistent throughout the novel. “As soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation, I quitted the scene and sought refuge in the woods” (124) meeting with the family the monster had been observing, it burned their house down. This is important because the monster felt that its place was in the ‘dark and scary forest’, it finally thought of itself as a monster that everyone else saw it as. Another example is when Frankenstein finds out that his brother has been murdered, the use of a gothic ‘scary’ setting is apparent. "I quitted my seat and walked on, although the darkness and storm increased every minute and the thunder burst with a terrific burst with a terrific crash over my head" (59). During this journey Frankenstein is very angry at his creation who he knows is to blame. Without the thunderstorm in the background, Frankenstein’s inner thoughts would not have been as easy...
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...Plot: Walton, an Arctic explorer, picks up Victor Frankenstein who is marooned on a floe. Frankenstein was a student of natural science: he stumbled on a means of sparking life into inanimate matter. His experiments grew wild; he spent leisure hours combing abattoirs, charnel houses and graveyards. From odds and ends he constructed an eight foot Creature who lacked sex appeal. The Creature learnt about humanity from three books: Goethe's The Sorrows of Werther (passion), Plutarch's Lives (morality) and Milton's Paradise Lost (religion). Unfortunately, despite this injection of culture, people still tended to run away: an Adam without an Eve, the Creature asked Frankenstein for a mate. Frankenstein gets cracking but, in a fit of conscience, aborted the experiment. The Creature went mad and murdered most of Frankenstein's family and friends. Frankenstein is in pursuit of the Creature when Walton discovers him. Frankenstein dies in a final struggle with the creature across the frozen waters. The Creature, who only wanted "happiness and affection'', wanders off hoping to perish of misery and cold. Walton is left to make sense of a story that lies outside the boundaries of interpretation. Theme: In the early version, Shelley is conducting a dialectical debate between strict materialists and their religious opponents. The 1831 revision seems a conservative reappraisal: the book is now a dire warning of the consequences that fall on Frankenstein for meddling in God's Business...
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...Frankenstein's Transformation Over the course of Frankenstein, Viktor Frankenstein undergoes a drastic emotional transformation as a result of his experiments which resulted in the creation of his Creature. Frankenstein's trips to Montavert, and his descriptions of the scene on his solitary excursions, show a clear sense of an emotional 'before and after.' In his visits to Montavert before the birth of his Creature, Frankenstein saw a sublime and beautiful scene. However, his accounts are drastically different - upset, guilty and disturbed - when Viktor returns, after leaving his Creature and experiencing the deaths of his brother William, and the wrongful execution of Justine Moritz. These drastic changes in Frankenstein's emotions are shown through his portrayals of nature. These changes in Frankenstein can also be seen as a parallel to the changes undergone by Mary Shelley in her own life, reflecting the disillusionment she felt with Romantic literature. One of the most unique aspects of Romanticism is the way that nature portrays the emotions of the writer. Unlike the mimesis of nature employed by their Neoclassical and Humanist predecessors, Romantic writers used nature as a mirror of their emotions, and contorted their natural surroundings to describe their specific feelings. This is a central tenet of Romanticism and key in understanding the major mental and emotional shifts undergone by Viktor Frankenstein throughout the novel. The natural imagery in this passage...
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...Victor Frankenstein is a flawed character by alienation. Instead of embracing his family, and allowing them to embrace him in his troubles, he alienates everyone - his father, his friend, Elizabeth, and his creation. He continues to try to run away, and by doing so, he forges the path to his failure. Had he accepted parental responsibility for his creation, the creation would not have sought vengeance. William, Justin, Elizabeth -- all of these characters might have been spared their fate. However, Victor abandons his family at every turn, and suffers for it. Shelley idealizes family in the same way she does nature. The deprived life could be interpreted as the ignorant life. The more knowledge that a person gains, the more complexity he/she also gains. The more wealth, the more responsibility; Victor is blessed with intelligence and education and wealth - and look what happens to him. After losing his mother he becomes obsessed with the idea of life. While in college a professor, sparks the idea of recreating life. Frankenstein becomes very consumed in the idea of bringing back life. “As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.” He felt it was his purpose to go farther than any other scientist had ever gone before him. "A new species would bless me as...
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...authors warn us many of the paths followed by over-reaching scientists irresponsible at best and evil at worst. Both texts give us warning to what the future may hold if science continues to strip away man kinds moral code. The time frame in which Frankenstein written was full of great changes and extraordinary discoveries such as electricity and the French revolution, which had bloody consequences which demonstrated how volatile the era was and how social order was being challenged. England was in a societal transformation. These are therefore reflected in Frankenstein such as the electrical experiment on Frankenstein, which was a warning against the expansion of modern humans. In contrast Blade runner was set 150 years after frankenstien durning a time of change, which also reflects the growing awareness in the 1980s that human actions were threatening nature. He warns us about the long term effect o pollution and environmental degration through the pollution of the city and acid rain. It becomes realized that despite the contextual differences, both texts are linked through common...
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...does not take place within the book either, but how she consciously makes choices shows how the reanimation of life does not necessarily have to be synonymous with then having to be unintelligent. Throughout all the films viewed so far, The Creature within this adaptation is the most faithful. He follows the main key point that the books Creature does. He learns how to have compassion, learns to talk, and premeditatively goes after Victor and his family. The Creature also sincere towards his creator towards the end. This is exactly in line with the book, he is somewhat ashamed and feels alone due to the death of Victor. He decided to take his own life with victor just like the book. Overall, as wild and unpredictable Mary Shelley’s Frankenstien is, I believe it is one of the most faithful adaptations to the original text we have gone over so far in the course. ...
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...Todd Savitt, a porfesser at East Carolina University states "..MCV and the University of Virginia competed for bodies.." In the 1880s Chris Baker started working for the MCV (Medical College of Virgina). His job was to collect bodies or hire someone to collect them for physicians, they were called "resurrectionists". Even in states that didn't have anatomy laws didn't allow enough corpes to the growing population of medical students, which is why students and teachers to hire a "resurrectionist" to collet cadavers. Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstien, takes you along the story of a lonely, nerdy man in the eighteen hundreds making a new life out of cadavers, which means he or someone he paid robbed graves. The man, Victor, studied anatomy and wanted to know how everything worked up close. He also wanted to create a new race of life, life from death. Back then there were many laws that stopped people from learning. However, in the novel the monster he creates destories lives which raised a few eyebrows. When the authorities found out he created a monster instead of a human, they came arms bared to end both of their lives. By the time the officers entered Victors labatory, the monster and all the evidence was already...
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...Corporations Are Not People Frances Sears ENG122 English Composition II Prof. Kritisin Narjes June 4, 2013 Corporations are not people. The constitutional rights were intended for real persons, not artificial creations. Corporations use money to be successful; not the people that make up corporations. Corporations are heartless and do not care about people and their lives. I feel that corporations are not people. Are Corporations People There have been arguments since 1886, whether corporations are people or not. The constitution shield living beings from arbitrary government and endowed them with the right to speak assemble petition. The case of Santa Clara County vs. Southern pacific Railroad Co. was the beginning of corporate ‘personhood,’ under law. The defendant corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in the constitution of the United State. The Amendment forbids a state to deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protect of laws. (p. 118 U.S. 395) I feel this was a great decision because no matter of race or circumstances; we should all be considered equal. Throughout the years there have been arguments whether corporations are ‘person’. Through this research I felt that the courts did not hear arguments whether the equal-protection provision of the 14th Amendment applies to the corporations. The court decision still allows laws that require financial regulations; as long as they do not treat corporations or unions differently from individuals...
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