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Rapid Change in Works by John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Mary Shelley

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...

Meaning and Philosophy

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

Portrayals of Good Science Gone Bad in Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley

jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...

Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

Good and Bad of Human Nature as Portrayed in Literature

Swift, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and "Heart of Darkness" by William Conrad. Gullivers Travels "Gullivers Travels" is a b...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

British Literature and Issue of Class

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

Responsibility and Parenting in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

abandoned his supposed love for this ideal of his. He also demonstrates no sense of responsibility in this particular theme. "[I...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and its Moral

which is whether or not Frankenstein should be regarded as an example of science fiction or historical allegory. However, when con...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Scientific Negativity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

claim that advances in the field would enhance quality of life as it could eradicate genetic disease, for example (Castle PG). It ...

John Milton's Satan and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Creature

In eight pages this paper compares the meanings contained within 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. ...

Four Classic Literary Works and Human Nature

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

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...

First Four Chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Nature versus Nurture Debate

child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in the...

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, ...

Works of John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron and the Common Theme They Share

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

'Monster' Concept in Literature

of monster that Shelly offers. In like kind she offers for examination the type of monster that takes no responsibility for his ac...

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...

Frankenstein Creature and His Education

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...

Soul and the Monster of Frankenstein

bitter. His ability to learn and apply abstract concepts shows that he has reasoning skills, but also the capability to feel emoti...

Websites on Frankenstein

sites. Therefore, the search was narrowed by adding the word "book." With this search the electronic text center at the Universit...

Novel and Film Portrayals of Frankenstein

any sense, which is the case in the novel. One similarity regarding the novel and the film involves the main characters fascina...

Karl Marx and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Creature

predicted in his Communist Manifesto that the inevitable overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat would first succeed in a ...

All About Monsters

"The iron-braced door turned on its hinge when his hands touched it. Then his rage boiled over, he ripped open the mouth of the bu...

Literature and Human Evil

of Dr. Frankenstein. However, in all honesty it is not the monster who is evil. The monster tries to learn, tries to find a place ...

Frankenstein - A Comparison of the Film and Novel by Kenneth Branagh

This research report examines both representations of Frankenstein. Positive and negative features of each are discussed. This six...

Gothic Author Mary Shelley

In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...

Frankenstein as a Reflection of the Life of its Author Mary Shelley

In five pages this paper discusses how Frankenstein reflect the life of Mary Shelley in its characterizations and a plot that mirr...