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Horrific Fictional Madness

was "my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only" (Shelley PG). This early indication sets up the reader for fu...

MGM and Universal's Cinematic Styles

their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...

An Abortion Reader by Lloyd Steffen

cases when a womans health is put in jeopardy by having a child at all. Forcing a woman to bring the child to term would be no les...

Memorandum Study on Reader Base Writing and Rewriting

to which it focuses on the readers, rather than the writers, expectations" (Course Guide, 1993; p. 2-4). This is not to say...

A Review of The Presocratic Reader

Before Socrates, this characteristic was missing, and the addition of it is so striking that it sets Socrates apart from the philo...

Literature of T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Mary Shelley

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

How the Storm Helps Readers Understand Ann’s Character in “The Painted Door”

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

“Frankenstein” and the Idea of Responsibility for One’s Actions

abrogated his personal responsibility on two levels. First, he has given up his responsibility to educate, nurture and care for th...

Frankenstein from Margaret’s Viewpoint

accompanied the commencement of an enterprise who you have regarded with such evil forebodings" (Shelley, 1999, p. 25). He is in P...

The Treatment of Women in Literature

of the real killer can be found, she is condemned and executed. Elizabeth marries Frankenstein and they flee to what they think is...

How the Reader is Positioned in “Cloudstreet”

that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks. What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given t...

Comparison of Frankenstein, Metamorphosis and Jekyll/Hyde

come to know - having become a grotesque physical specimen - compels them to display hostility and defiance toward the changed man...

Analysis of 2 Horror Films

adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...

What Agamemnon Tells Readers about Odysseus

hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Caliban, Prospero, Frankenstein and the Creature—Who’s the Monster?

source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so complete...

"Frankenstein" and Miltonian Characterization

the level of a literary work that transcends the boundaries of its associated genre of horror, which like the best works of the Go...

God, Man, and Morality in "Frankenstein"

as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...

Fluency Activity to Aid a Struggling Reader

by Dr. Bear to indicate where Noah paused and for how long, one slash for each second and after waiting 3 seconds I supplied the w...

Responses to Essays in The Bedford Reader

and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...

Does Frankenstein Deserve His Fate?

and then turns away from it" (Schellenberg). Perhaps, he continues, Shelley wants to punish Frankenstein simply because "he doesnt...

Barriers Between Readers and the Other

West, who defined the native American tribes as "savages"; and by so doing, made it possible to justify killing them (in self-defe...

Reimagining “Frankenstein” for the 21st Century

hes available, Michael Caine, who can do anything and make it believable, would be fantastic. If hes not available, Harvey Keitel ...

"Mother To Son" - Reader Response Criticism

Hughes mother who says "So, boy, dont you turn back. Dont you set down on the steps. Cause you finds its kinder hard," mine was ...

Limbaugh Tells Readers So

of bellowing his unsupported opinions as if they were facts. Perhaps the most egregious of his faults is his constant attacks on ...

Barnes and Noble's E-Reader

downloadable reading material. Barnes & Noble also jumped on the bandwagon with its e-reader, and this in part is what is donated....

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

Readers Response to the Novel Fahrenheit 451

This 3 page paper gives a response to the authors reading of the novel Fahrenheit 451. This paper includes examples from the text ...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...