James Whale

The hope of manipulating life is the source of many dreams but what happen when one man is haunted by that achievement. In Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, deals with the consequence of one man's fascination with life and death that went too far. Victor Frankenstein is a young student of science who aspire of finding the secret to creating life. After gazing upon his creation he is horrified by what he had done thus setting off a chain of miseries in his life. The novel comprise of…

This diploma paper discusses and analyzes the lives of major characters in Frankenstein. This is a novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, in 1818. In this paper will be analyzed and discussed the lives of the major characters in “Frankenstein”, there will be analyzed their educational, social, familiar life. The reason why this novel was chosen is because it is an interesting story with a lot of themes with an interesting creature; it is a little bit complicated and very powerful for the…

English essay The Human Transformation: In the book “Frankenstein” you will see at the beginning of the book a scientist named victor whose dream is to create a human like creature out of body parts from other people. Well you could say it was a success, but the monster was not like he expected and wanted to get rid of it. So for the next months to come, victor changes from a scientist to a hunter. Then the creature becomes a true monster to the cottagers and victors close friends and family…

In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien suggests that the war itself changes a person, the changes could be negative or positive. The negative effect is the war is like a disease that takes over your body and reorganizes everything inside you making the outer layers of you to be unrecognizable to people. For instance, when Tim talks about Lemon fear of the dentist and how he got over the fear: "...something about dentists that just gave him the creeps ....Lemon kept insisting, so the man…

As early as the 1790s, then, Ann Radcliffe firmly set the Gothic in one of the ways it would go ever after: a novel in which the central figure is young woman who is simultaneously persecuted victim and courageous heroine. But what are we to make the next major turning of the Gothic tradition that a women brought about a generation later? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in 1818, made over the Gothic novel into what today we call science fiction. Frankenstein brought a new sophistication to literary…

In the short stories “Eve’s Diary” and “Extracts from Adam’s Diary”, author Mark Twain takes a comical approach on the lives of two characters from The Book of Genesis. These characters, known as Adam and Eve, write diary entries every day as they take on the undiscovered world and fall in love. Without each other, there would be no balance, only chaos. Throughout the stories, Twain conveys an central message that although men and women are completely different, they need each other. The usage…

Sigmund Freud's Ideologies in Lord of the Flies German screenwriter Werner Herzog says that Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." William Golding expresses his insights through Lord of the Flies where Jack, Ralph, and Piggy evolve as both individuals and role models throughout the book. Each typify one of Sigmund Freud's three levels of consciousness: the id, the ego, and the superego. The young school boys demonstrate their distinct thinking…

In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley repeatedly suggests—and eventually delivers upon—the imminence of doom based upon the protagonist’s unbridled ambition in order to warn of the gruesome consequences of hubris and ego. Victor Frankenstein, the title character and protagonist, seeked to discover the secret of creation, not to cure disease or to better the world, but instead, simply to gain fame and clout in the scientific community. Not only did Frankenstein aim to essentially “play God”…

Identity is the establishment of the sum of a person but distinguishing one’s being can be difficult when considering the overwhelming external factors. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonists are faced with an upscale journey of determining their identities, despite believing they already knew who they are. Unlike Victor Frankenstein, who realizes his creation of science has defied moral boundaries, Janie Crawford struggles with…

Although Frankenstein sets out to create a human being, throughout the novel he refers to his unnamed creation as “devil,” “creature,” “monster,” and “fiend.” These names imply that Frankenstein does not consider his creature to be a true human being. The question though is: why not? How does the novel distinguish the human from the nonhuman? Since the creature can reason, use language, and feel emotion, why shouldn’t he be considered human? How and why is the category of “monster” applied to…