Evaluation Essay
Composition II
Evaluation Essay
January 29, 2014
Sherry Ginn earned her MA and PhD in General-Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina. She completed post-doctoral training at the East
Carolina University School of Medicine and taught at East Carolina University. She also enrolled in several classes in the Women’s Studies Program. She has published numerous articles in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. She is the author of a book entitled “Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction
Television”. Dr. Ginn’s is a well qualified and respected professor that is currently teaching at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. Sherry Ginn uses her Frankenstein
Critique Essay to adequately argue that Victor is the real monster in this story.
As Dr. Ginn stated,”the audience will be encouraged to look beyond the exterior of the Creature and decide exactly who is the monster in this classic novel”. I think what she could be stating here, is that the Creature is not the monster. The real monster in this story is Victor Frankenstein. He created a life and then abandoned it because it did not look normal. The Creature made several attempts to make friends only to be violently denied any type of relationship because of his appearance. I am reminded of the saying, don’t judge a book by its cover!
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Reading “Frankenstein”, I found myself on the side of Victor’s creation. All he
wanted was a companion. He lived in solitude and found himself to be unhappy. The
happiest he seemed to be was when he was living on the property of the de Lacey’s. It took the Creature quite a while to sum up the courage to befriend the family. It seemed to be going well when he was interacting with the father. The father being blind, could see the good nature of the Creature of which he really could not actually see. It was not until the son came home and beat the Creature that he started to have animosity toward humans and
Evaluation Essay
January 29, 2014
Sherry Ginn earned her MA and PhD in General-Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina. She completed post-doctoral training at the East
Carolina University School of Medicine and taught at East Carolina University. She also enrolled in several classes in the Women’s Studies Program. She has published numerous articles in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. She is the author of a book entitled “Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction
Television”. Dr. Ginn’s is a well qualified and respected professor that is currently teaching at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. Sherry Ginn uses her Frankenstein
Critique Essay to adequately argue that Victor is the real monster in this story.
As Dr. Ginn stated,”the audience will be encouraged to look beyond the exterior of the Creature and decide exactly who is the monster in this classic novel”. I think what she could be stating here, is that the Creature is not the monster. The real monster in this story is Victor Frankenstein. He created a life and then abandoned it because it did not look normal. The Creature made several attempts to make friends only to be violently denied any type of relationship because of his appearance. I am reminded of the saying, don’t judge a book by its cover!
!
Reading “Frankenstein”, I found myself on the side of Victor’s creation. All he
wanted was a companion. He lived in solitude and found himself to be unhappy. The
happiest he seemed to be was when he was living on the property of the de Lacey’s. It took the Creature quite a while to sum up the courage to befriend the family. It seemed to be going well when he was interacting with the father. The father being blind, could see the good nature of the Creature of which he really could not actually see. It was not until the son came home and beat the Creature that he started to have animosity toward humans and
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