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"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...

one hand. (McAllister 158). Such an illustration is incredibly focused in realist tradition, as Pip struggles to develop himself...

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

if not love, to have some sort of regard for him. But Frankenstein, who is not as admirable in the book as he is usually made to a...

of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family, edited by Boz" (Hamilton). Hamil...

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

to be "shockingly revolutionary" (Sorensen 12). This feature of his work is considered today to be related to be a reflection of...

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

begins to interact with the Delaceys he ceases to be just a creature reacting to his own base needs, but begins to develop a consc...

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

pains and sees the sadness and realities around him, urging him into a state of despair. In the end there is an understanding t...

this we see the slow development of the monsters position and how he will eventually come to seek revenge. The most obvious for...

This essay presents the argument that Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel is a sympathetic, sensitive character who is ...

are clearly emotionally distraught at being unloved and uncared for by humans, their parents. They seek vengeance. The only replic...

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

different chapters, allows both the Monster and Frankenstein to offer their accounts of the Monsters early existence. When Franken...

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

Perhaps Victor feels that in giving life to a pile of bones and sinew he can spare himself the pain of death not only for himself,...

see them in the context of the society in which they originated. The Victorian view of criminality The commonly expressed public ...

In five pages this paper discusses how Victorian Era individuals perceived the world in a comparative analysis of Angela Thirkell'...

Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein is the subject of this critical literary analysis, which focuses on setting, language, plot, ...

In five pages Byronic hero is first defined and then examined as it is reflected in Lord Byron's Manfred and Mary Shelley's Franke...

In five pages the protagonist in Charles Dickens' novel is examined in terms of his childishness and self centered ways. There ar...

In nine pages this paper discusses Romantic literature of the past and present with a consideration of female authors Fannie Flagg...

Charles Dickens' classic work is discussed in terms of characterization as well as setting. The work is discussed in historical co...

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

This paper examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square in terms of how Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illn...