Frankenstein Appearance and Acceptance: Close Reading Assignment Mary Shelley‚ in Frankenstein uses appearance to depict Victor Frankenstein as the embodiment of “good” and his creation as its counterpart “evil”; through the use of imagery‚ allusions to the Bible‚ and pathos‚ Shelley embellishes the issue of acceptance in modern society. From the very beginning‚ Frankenstein relates that his creature was horrid in form. As the creature discovers Victor’s journal‚ he reads into his creator’s true
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Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand‚ Half sunk‚ a shatter’d visage lies‚ whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive‚ stamp’d on these lifeless things‚ The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias‚ king of kings: Look on my works‚ ye Mighty
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Caught in a Wake of Illusions To remain‚ or not to remain: that is the question. In The Awakening‚ a novella by Kate Chopin‚ the main character‚ Edna‚ explores the depth of this question as she awakens from her blind submission to society’s demands. Realizing for the first time in her life that she is trapped in a box culturally deemed appropriate for women‚ she struggles to break free and pursue individuality. In the processes of trying to find herself‚ she sacrifices society’s approval‚ her husband’s
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The novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham‚ is set in the future and starts in the town of Waknuk‚ modern day Labrador‚ years after a nuclear holocaust. The people of Waknuk believe it was God who sent Tribulation upon them for all their sins; this makes the Waknukians strict about anything different. The story’s main character is a boy named David Storm‚ son of Joseph Storm one of Waknuk’s most intolerant people. David‚and only a select few‚ can communicate without words but in what they call thought
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Cindy Jackson’s website‚ her only goal seems to be to try and make money. Most of her website is about selling her line of cosmetics and beauty aids along selling with her plastic surgery advice. Upon a more in depth analysis‚ my personal opinion is that Cindy Jackson has some serious self-image issues. After so many operations‚ she has come to believe that beauty is on the outside‚ and she looks for any way necessary to achieve the look of her ideal‚ an imaginary person. The flaws that she sees
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Bimbos go bonkers Recently‚ there has been an insane rally against child beauty pageants. Personally‚ I am concerned about the way these beauty pageants portray women and young girls. This has come in response to news that an American company has decided to bring its pageant to Australia for the first time. Child welfare authorities in the United States are investigating a mother who appeared on national television injecting her eight-year-old daughter with the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox. ’’It’s
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Beauty Competitions‚ also known as Beauty Contests or Beauty Pageants degrade women to mere objects. Such a competition is the exploitation of women by men and other women. A competition based on skill or ability is all right. However in the case of a beauty competition‚ no skill or ability is involved. Beauty is supposed to be the criteria for such a competition. There is nothing wrong with judging people primarily on their physical prowess. We do this all the time in competitive sport‚ where fitness
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Academic Statement of Purpose The need for critical discourse analysis is crucial now more than ever because of the sheer mass of information our society encounters on a daily basis. I hope to demystify some of these messages through the use of critical discourse analysis in both my future research and my career. My work in discourse analysis seeks to identify those who are powerful‚ the construct of power they rely on‚ the social indexing employed‚ and the implications of their words for those
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Physical Beauty vs. Inner Beauty Physical Beauty vs. Inner Beauty There are many definitions for “beauty” but each individual changes throughout life based on what they perceive. The two major types of beauty are physical (or outer) and Inner beauty. Based on the facts and research on these two topics; I would like to show the similarities and differences in the way individuals may perceive one other. What is the first thing that catches your eye‚ from the opposite sex? The first thing I see
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Rhetorical Analysis of the song “Beauty for brokenness” by Graham Kendrick The song that I chose for rhetorical analysis is Beauty for brokenness by Graham Kendrick. This song was written in 1993 for the 25th anniversary of the charity Tear Fund. It was influenced by a visit that Kendrick had made to India in 1992 and his perception of the contrast between Indian poverty and Western affluence. It was included in his CD album Spark to a Flame (1993)‚ and has since been included in a number of mainstream
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