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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

his boyhood days. He meets Lolita and instantly desires her, doing anything he can to be near her, even agreeing to marry Lolit...

John Grisham’s Bleachers

youth, that skill, that sport, could life hold meaning. At one point in the book the character states, "youre famous at eighteen, ...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

Industrialization as a Metaphorical Monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There were also images of pollution with billows of smoke pouring out of factory chimneys and thick coatings of ash on sidewalks, ...

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...

W.W. Brown/Clotel

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

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...

Mill, Marx, and Shelley on the Acquisition of Knowledge

they will assume that the only way to live is the way in which they have been living. Marxs examination of capitalism may be, t...

Monster's Creation in the Writings of Joseph Conrad and Mary Shelley

so moved by the portrayal of Adam that he begins to identify with Adam. Like Adam at the beginning of creation, he, too, is lonely...

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...

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...

Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein as an Extension of His Own Creation

The protagonist of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the subject of this character analysis that includes Sigmund Freud's doubling p...

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...

Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein Characterization

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

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...

Frankenstein as Bildungsroman

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

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 ...

The Exorcist and Frankenstein

possesses a girl. She has no control over this possession and there seems to be no character that actively engages in evil. As suc...

The Theme of Dangerous Knowledge in “Frankenstein”

that set up the story. Frankenstein appears some little way into the novel, when he is picked up by Waltons ship, emaciated and dy...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...