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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 ...

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

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

of friendship and acceptance brings the woman to the point where she feels remorse and wants to repent. She begins to cry and apo...

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

In eight pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the relationship between the marriage concept and the female ch...

In 5 pages this paper examines what the film versions of this novel reveal more about the times in which they were made than the e...

In nine pages the ways in which these novels reflected gender attitudes of the 18th century regarding chastity, sex, and marriage ...

realize from that gain in herself. Moll is cautious, and definitely "aware of the market." As each time she is forced to re-evalu...

"perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general pardon should be issu...

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...

left to be raised by gypsies who then leave her in Colchester. The parish officers of the area give her to woman who runs a small ...

is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...

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

in a few short years. Roxanas lone confidant was her trusted maid, Amy, in whom she could confide her innermost hopes and dreams....

be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live ...

gods in the form of logic, reasoning and wisdom (Chung, 2002). Homers work placed gods in a position that was superior to man. In...

that he could not control it (Marcus 188). On the one hand, there are the critics who claim that Frankenstein had no...

a whole has revolted against. The primary perpetrator of this situation in Mary Shellys "Frankenstein" could be identified as Dr....

from electricity. But first, he must fashion a body. The proportions of Victors creation is important to the story. He was obvio...

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

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

In four pages the question regarding the nature of man is examined within the context of William Shakespeare's King Lear....

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...

The character of Jane is sent to live with a relative when she is young, and then sent off to a school. She finds herself applying...

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

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

and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me" ...