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Mary, Queen of Scots as a Pawn in a Dangerous Political Game

In eleven pages Mary, Queen of Scots is examined in terms of her Renaissance role and the strength she demonstrated despite being ...

Neoclassicism vs. Romanticism, Rasselas vs. Frankenstein

Rasselas by Samuel Johnson and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley offer a study in Neoclassicism and Romanticism, respectively. This pap...

Clairvoyance, Insanity, and the Life of Mary Todd Lincoln

This paper examines the life of Mary T. Lincoln, wife of US president Abraham Lincoln. The author discusses elements of her insan...

Literature of Early America

In nine pages the religious messages of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of...

3 Articles on Homosexuality

In five pages three articles featuring the topic of homosexuality are summarized and analyzed. They are Christopher Hewitt's 'Hom...

Personality Metamorphosis of Frankenstein's Monster

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,...

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...

An Arti Institute of Chicago Visit

and children, a sobriquet given in her lifetime, she approached this, her favorite subject, with the surprisingly unsentimental bu...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

Musical Party Painting by Mary Cassatt

greatly. In addition this figure, this woman, takes the center of the canvas for the most part, starting at the bottom of the pa...

Mary Wortley Montagu on Love and Sex

her personality and energy. Her perspectives were unique due to her upbringing and her many travels. The worldview that she manage...

Renaissance Sonnets and How They Evolved

composing sonnets was considered a necessary endeavor when courting someone (Goldenberg). For example, a man of any position would...

'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...

Neoclassical and Romantic Themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility" (42). As this suggests, an ...

Vengeance and the Frankenstein Monster

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

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...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, and Early Feminism

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

English Monarchy Threat of Mary Queen of Scots

David (2004) makes the point that in the first place, Mary was not groomed to rule Scotland in the way that Elizabeth anticipated ...

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...

Science Fiction and Gender

In eight pages this paper examines how gender influences science fiction tastes in terms of male and female preferences with a dis...

Classical, Neoclassical, and Romantic Music and Literature

In five pages this report contrasts and compares literary and musical distinctions as illustrated by Voltaire's Candide neoclassic...

Happiness Perspectives of Langdon Gilkey and Mary Gordon

She realizes that she will have to "invent an existence for myself" (Gordon 5). Isabel falls in love with a married man, and event...

Isolation in Jane Eyre and Frankenstein

The theme of isolation as it is featured in these novels by Charlotte Bronte and Mary Shelley are compared and contrasted in nine ...

Politics, Labor, and American Citizens

In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...

Deviance from a Victorian View Perspective

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

Feminist View on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Science

In seven pages this paper considers science as presented in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley from a feminist perspective that includes...

A Philosophy Basic Overview

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

Abandonment in Frankenstein

is responsible for the monsters abandonment and abusive treatment, fueling his bitterness and murderous rage" (178). Natale illust...

Portrayals of Humanity and Science in Frankenstein and Maezel's Chess Player

A 5 page analysis of humanity and science as they are portrayed by Mary Shelly's and Edgar Allan Poe. 2 sources....

Frankenstein from a Critical Perspective

Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein is the subject of this critical literary analysis, which focuses on setting, language, plot, ...