Essay "Frankenstein"

Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus is a well-known novel written by the great writer Mary Shelley. This work develops important and strong themes which one make people react. In some cases, such themes are a reflection of Shelley’s life and in others, she only want to appeal the common sense of people.

One of the first themes you can find within the novel is “monstrosity”. Not only because the core of the story is about a monster, was the way it created though. Firstly, Frankenstein is a man created by mixing different body parts from other corpses. Secondly, the monster has a horrible appearance because of his creation and thirdly his bad behavior, which one obeys to the rejection, he suffers from society. Besides this, the characteristics of monstrosity also reached the creator of Frankenstein. A mad and selfish, scientific that in order to accomplish his goals is able to go beyond the natural limits of life.

The ambition to get the first knowledge, to find the unknown was also a developed topic in the story. The immeasurable hope to create something new what was carried out victor to do a deep research and transgress the limits of acceptance. In fact, Victor was not the only one who wanted to be the first in a specific area. For example, Waltson wanted to overpass the expedition that until that moment people have done it in the North Pole. However, for both characters (Victor and Waltson) that hopes for “the first knowledge” turned into dangerous. Frankenstein started to kill Victor’s family, friends and relatives. Moreover, in the Expedition of Waltson, he ended lost between the ice sheets of the North Pole.

Mystery is also in the novel since Victor gave life to Frankenstein, he decided to keep him jealously hide for two reasons. Firstly, to avoid his creation could be investigated and copied by other Scientifics of the moment. Secondly, because of his ugly or grotesque appearance. A man with more than 5 feet of high, full of stitches and scars and with a violent behavior are characteristics that need to be carefully guarded.

In conclusion, in the Novel of Frankenstein the reader can identify some important themes, which ones fly smoothly in the complete literary work. Such of them are Mystery, knowledge (to find the unknown) and monstrosity. They show you the life of a created man, who has as purpose to go with his creator to everywhere.

The story shows you the sorrow of a monster, which is rejected by society because of his grotesque physical appearance. However, the novel left you a teaching of life. Not to discriminate people because of the differences you can have. In addition, not always the discovery of the unknown means something good. Sometimes it can shift dangerously against you and you pass from being the first in discover or innovate something new to be the first victim of this discovery you have made.

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One of the first important themes that you can find within the novel is monstrosity. Not only because the core of the story is about a monster, the way how it was created though, so all he involves is an entirely atrocity. A human created by mixing different body parts from other corpses. Moreover, the characteristics of monstrosity also reached the creator of Frankenstein, victor, and a mad scientific that in order to accomplish his goals is able to go beyond the natural limits.

Secondly, the ambition to get the knowledge, the immeasurable hopes to create something new carried out victor to transgress the limits of acceptance. However, this knowledge turn into a dangerous tool, by the time Frankenstein started to kill his family, relatives and friends. So, his creation that could bring him a new way to spend time with turned into a destructive machine.

Mystery also plays a very important role in the Novel. Since he gave life to Frankenstein to keep in hide him to avoid his creation could be copied by others Scientifics of the time. However, it was not the only reason why he decided to maintain Frankie out of people’s sight. His ugly or grotesque physical appearance also was what influence victor’s decision. A man with more than 5 feet of high, full of stitches and scars is not a pleasant image for us.

Going further in the novel. it also necessary to point out the mayor symbol of the novel. This power of enlightenment or light represents the knowledge. The novel depicted victor as a concentrated and able to go to anywhere in terms to make his investigation true or bring out with tangible examples. Victor is depicted as a man who has been working hardly in the darkness when finally he came up or sees the light with his great invention, Frankenstein.

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In the two poems, the first image that comes to your mind is the destruction that war made. How it desolated the city, the damages that it provoked within the families and to the people who had to participate in it. I think that the writer depicted very well, in both pieces of writing, the consequences that it brought. Despite the pity meaning of the words, it is good because it makes you react and think that this is not the proper way to solve conflicts between people. I believe that the two poems is a good way to took conscious about problems and the incorrect decisions that sometimes people made. Moreover, most of the time, it only brings to people sorrow and unhappiness.

"Virginia Woolf"

A room of one owns written by Virginia Wolf is a very interesting piece of writing. Moreover, it depicted very well the women’s situation in those days. However, there is a point in which one I do not agree with her, and it is the fact that she wrote from the point of view of a women who belonged to the upper class. Probably my comment is not understandable at all but I will clear it. I think that she could take the fact that women were delegated to the housechores and to take care of children and family before to ask why women did not write or were not dedicated to other fields. probably she had all the time that she wanted because she had not anything to do. But women’s situation were the opposite to hers. Their future were not in writing and by the time the society wanted them as the houskeeper, they were not aware of other things. Their awareness were focus on the house. People speak so easily about others. Neverthenless, they say what they see and to live and see are quite different. Even though she was very good depicting the women’s problem, I believe she should go beyond the comments and to live like a women from a low or a working class.

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"The Waste Land"

When we did the activity base on to look at the picture and connect it to one of the titles of the story of “wasteland”, the first headline that came to my mind was “The Burial of the Death”। I have always seen and experimented that people when want to forget something, they through it away (metaphorically) Where do they things go? The picture is the answer. The photograph is full of rubbish, for me! Nevertheless, for a person who this garbage belonged to, that is the death of a memory that probably hurt them much and which one they do not want to continuous living. Papers are the symbols of remembers. The image shows us the cemetery but this time not of death people. This is a cemetery where things that are truly important such as time, love, pace, etc are buried and they were left behind by the time people decided to get into this city and live like a robot and forgetting that they are part of human kind and not of a Factory.

"The odour of chrysanthemums"

To understand the story of Elizabeth, it is necessary to realize the damage that alcohol does within a family. The fact to see the love of your life being destroyed, it is something very difficult to live with. Probably this is the reason why she felt her husband like a strange in her life. He was the responsible of destroy the dreams that she had in a time. However, the hopes come to her in the moment of his husband's dead. there she see the beautifulness of life again, a reasonable thought, having in mind that this drunk man was the obstacle and the heavy bag that she has to carry every day. The thing is how do not feel the same as Elizabeth when you are living with a man that he only does is to bring sadness and pity?

"The Waste Land"

When we did the activity based on looking at the picture and connected it to one of the titles of the story of “wasteland”, the first headline that came to my mind was “The Burial of the Death”. I have always seen and experimented that people when want to forget something painful for them, they through it away, Where do they things go? The picture is the answer. The photograph is full of rubbish, for me! Nevertheless, for a person who this garbage belonged to, that is the death of a memory that hurt them much and which ones they do not want to continuous living. The image shows us the cemetery but this time not of death people. This is a cemetery where things that are truly important as time, love, pace, etc are buried and they were left behind by the time people decided to get into this city and live like a robot and forgetting that they are part of human kind and not of a Factory.

the odour of chrisantemums

to understand the story of elizabeth it is necesaryto realize the damage that alcohol does within a family. The fact to see the love of your life being destroyed, it is something very difficult to live with. Probably this is the reason why she felt her husband like a strange in her life. he was the responsable of destroy the dreams that she had in a time. However, the hopes come to her in the moment of his husband's dead. there she see the beautifulness of life again, a reasonable thought, having in mind that this drunk man was the obstacle and the heavy bag that she has to carry every day. the thing is how do not feel the same as elizabeth when you are living with a man that he only does is to bring sadness and pity?

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Talking about the similes in the latest two stories, the first concept that comes to our mind is “self-centerness”. In “The invisible Japanese gentleman”, there is a woman that, who is concern about her own goals and expectativeness for her future, and she never realize that while she is talking her fiancé is worried about everything but not in what she is declaring. On the other hand, in the story of the horse, the mother of the boy never become conscious of what is happening with her son until the moment he die. The reason, she is concern about her lack of lucky and misfortune, and that is what impedes her to concentrate in the events that the little boy is experiencing.

Secondly, there is a requirement of understanding commonly in both stories. In the Invisible Japanese gentleman, the woman never understands that the power of observation that her boyfriend has, is stronger than anything, and the fact that he never pays attention to her comments, makes the girl get angry. Almost the same situation happens in the story of the horse. Here the person who is not understand by his mother is the boy, actually, what he does starts when he wants to demonstrate to his mother how lucky he is because it seems that is the only way to make her react and change her mind to not being focus on superficial things.

"The invisible Japanese gentlemen" by Graham Greene

In the story of Graham Greene, the attitude of the girl is quite normal. When you are in a Restaurant people are often interested in their conversation and not what happened surround them. Probably, what you can do is to see who is in the tables next to you, the number of guests, their nationality, if they are two girls or two boys, a family, etc. The fact to see people from other countries, most of the time is interesting for us. Probably, it could be the reason of the author to focus on their conversation instead of his own.

In the story Greene, show us a girl a little bit superficial and concentrated only in what she is talking and what she wants, to get married with the man. Most of the time the girl is presented foolish because she speaks to the man without realized he is not concentrated in their conversation. The man is aware of the Japanese that are in the table next to them. They seem to be elegant, intelligent and talkative. Inclusively they should seem to have a lot of notoriety in the place because of the way in which the author places his attention in them was amazing. It was like a treasure which one the author did not want to loose the footprints.

The title of the story suits perfectly with what it contains. Even though the man was out of the group of Japanese, he was as an invisible guest looking from the other side of the place. The only think that he could not do was to interfere in their conversation. The title as the complete story are appealing and motivating but at the same time it gives you a real perspective of what can happened in a restaurant.

"Charles Dickens and the Victorian Age" (Essay)

Charles Dickens was one of the most important writers of the Victorian Age. This period of the Universal History was marked by prosperity and the industrial revolution but also by poverty, needs, injustices, etc. Even though we want to accept or not, those concept were the ones that marked Dickens’s life. Moreover, those problems left him a sense of justice for what he had to write for. For this reason, his works are completely based on his experiences but what is more trying to call the attention of the society and make them react in front of the injustices and bad treats that poor people had to live.

The Victorian Era was the period under the reign of Queen Victorian. It was comprehend between June 1837, and Concluded in January 1901. This period was better known for its great prosperity due to the industrial revolution, that allow people to create a new social class and what that implied. However, there also were poverty, needs, child labor, and oppression among others. England was a rural country dominated by agriculture, and by the time, the industrial revolution arrived all the people migrated to the city looking for a better jobs and conditions of life. Nevertheless, those dreams which ones people came with were quickly abolished for the owners of these industries. Poor people had to work hard and extensive working day with low salaries. Children and woman were also enrolled in these or factories. For those reasons, poor people in the city lived in denigrating conditions, as an example: they had to share their houses with more than five families. Unsanitary conditions increased the illness and the rate of mortality. Different Epidemics covered the majority part of the land and left it damaged.

Charles Dickens lived in those days and was affected for these injustices. When he was a child his father was sent to prison for debts and his family had to move to a city near to prison, except Charles that instead of that, he was sent to work to the city , and thus supporting economically to his family. His life was full of miseries and needs, which ones made him to be strong in front of them. After a period, his father encouraged him to assist to the Wellington House Academy probably trying to save him to the work world, which one Dickens was immersed. In his life as student, he spent much time reading and acting. When he became and important and successful writer, he always wanted to point out the society of the XIX century and make people react to it. Moreover, He tried to approach poor people to his work. For this, he was aware of publishing his writing in cheaper handouts, thus everybody could have access to them.

Finally, and despite to his success, we think that Charles Dickens never forgot his poor roots and he always wanted to make them the main theme of his works (injustices, power, and poverty). Even though his childhood was not good, he was able to overcome those problems and made of his work a kind of mirror of his own life. In addition, to call the attention of people he tended to used children because they were the powerful image of that time.

NEXT.... AN ESSAY ON CHARLES DICKEN'S LIFE

Essay: the influence of Victorian age in Charles Dicken's life (how the society affected him)





I.- INTRODUCTION

II.- SHORT VIEW ON VICTORIAN AGE

III.-BEING AN ORPHAN

IV.- POVERTY

V.- STEAL TO SURVIVE

VI.- CONCLUSION

Dicken's Work

Looking in the Dicken's work you can realized that he wanted to showed us his life from a different aspect. It means not being hymself the main character of a book. As Mary Shelley in Frankenstein, Charles Dickens, represent his life in the signal man. However, this time his life was represented by a train a not by the ghost. A train that carried all the experiences that he lived through his entirely life.

It is interesting that ability that writers have to hide their life under a character. In Oliver Twist, Dickens tells us his regretfully childhood and the sad or pities that he had to lived as an orphan in the victorian age. In the Movie predominates issues as: power, abusses, injustices, etc making the story more meaninful and unforgetable.

"Frankenstein"

Looking forward the concept of knowledge in the life of Shelley, what comes first to our minds it is the environment that she had in her family when she was younger. Daughter of a great feminist and important writer, she was always encouraged to learn and read about different intereting topics, which ones help her to build her knowledge. However, her life never was something calm and quite. A mother who died when Shelley was born, a lack of understanding from the society, lived with a man who was already married, and being rejected because of it and, are passages that probably boost her to write “Frankenstein”. In this book, Shelley turns her knowledge writing this beautiful story. What is more interesting here, it is the fact that the experiences that the character had to lived, came from the real life of the writer. Both were created, one physically and the other psychologically. Both also lived a rejection from society, one for being rude and ugly and the other for living with a married man. Both learned from books, and had a constantly search of who am I.

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In the sonnets written by Coleridge is easy to find characteristics of romanticism such as Imagination, Nature, Freedom, Pleasure and Death. The three first concepts are revealed in the following stanza:

“…When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance…”

Here, we can perceive the capacity that Coleridge has giving deep meanings to the nature. In this stanza we can deduced that he is talking about the constellations. Probably he had found more pictures in the sky that nobody else did. Moreover the faces of the stars, how he could see them, if at night you just can see the light that stars reflect. We strongly believe that Coleridge imagination is as huge as the infinite. Even more, the passion which ones Coleridge gives us the poems is marvelous because if you start to read his poems after you finish you cannot feel strange to them. It means that they make you react.

However, he is always mixing any theme with Death. We can understand his reasons when you know about his life and how much difficult it was to him. To live without his mother, to be working at the hospital dealing closest with death are passages that mark your life forever. And that’s why he always knitted his poems with these topics.

"Kubla Khan"

The three statements presented in the power point are completely related to the Kubla Khan's poem. First of all, the way how he express his feelings in front to what he is seeing in that moment, how he describe the environment and how he transmits the experience that he is having are really interesting affections.

According to us, his words touch you and your feeling and even more makes you react to it, allowing you to be there next to him seeing the same. It is marvelous to read the poem and feel you in the same environment as the writer. The simplicity of the words but the magnanimity how he writes them, are great and call you to continuing dreaming and imaginating.

However, the last statement is not really related to this poem. Within it there is not (apart from the writer) another character that we can define as supernatural itself. But we can classify the nature as supernatural because it gives you shadow, shapes, etc that permits to you make different interpretations.