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

This paper addresses the education and intellectual abilities of The Creature in Shelley's classic novel. This five page paper ha...

This paper discusses the complexity of The Monster's personality. This five page paper has one source listed in the bibliography....

seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhab...

draws from his experience. His first introduction to fire, for example, results in his knowledge that the same element that can p...

me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of...

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

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

repulsive in appearance and Satan was transformed by his own evil, becoming increasing ugly as the poem proceeds. As this suggests...

be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...

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...

"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...

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

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

has. The education that Dr. Frankenstein sought was for the express goal of going against nature, to beat God at his own game. The...

In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

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,...

would probably have forced him to consider the ramifications of his work. But since he has no one to answer to save his own opin...

the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body" (Shel...

monster could be seen as a perversion of an epic hero, given his greater than human abilities and stature" (Anonymous Synopsis of ...

In eight pages this paper examines the Frankenstein people in terms of his heroic acts that are contrary to the label of monster s...

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

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

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

"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 ...

In 5 pages the changes in Victor Frankenstein's personality as he becomes obsessed with being god like that occur in the fourth ch...

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

and runs from him, expecting that his creation will cease to exist if Frankenstein ignores the reality. On the other hand the read...