Quotations from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Page Quotation Significance 13 no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings – Walton Shows tension between Walton and sister Margaret which common occurrence throughout novel. Also shows how Walton’s arrogance minimises Margaret’s fears and opinion. 13 What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle; and
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potential as marriage partners. Women are treated as sex object which makes them feel devalued and trivialized. Women who participate in prostitution‚ pornography‚ phone sex‚ lap dances‚ and any other degrading activity add to the problem of the dehumanization of women. Society by the way of media‚ television‚ music‚ videos‚ magazines‚ and advertisement contribute to the disease of anorexia and bulimia in young girls and women. Underweight models and digitally enhanced photos are associated with increased
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that resentful mindset‚ I came to a point in which I couldn’t take it anymore. I could not just dismiss it again. At some point‚ I realized I was sick and tired of the materialistic views some of the people in my social environment had. It ranged from dismissing people who did not manage to amass great wealth as lazy to dehumanizing workers. I may be quite young‚ but I have always been exposed to this sort of bigotry and
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In this process of dehumanization‚ children are not only at risk for sexual abuse‚ but also psychological and physical abuse. With that said‚ children are also forced to perform physical labour. Children serve as objects to control with the use of physical abuse by “salve masters” to make profit. According to these “slave masters” poverty is forcing them to pay low salaries. The children working for them work long hours and are locked in a shed at night with only a cup to urinate in (Haglage‚ 2015)
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The Abu Ghirab prison was the most horrific‚ brutal and dehumanizing thing I have even come across. The level of suffering the inmates experienced words cannot express how terrifying it is. There were male as well as female and even worst‚ children was in that dreadful place. They were treated worse than animals in my opinion‚ I cannot see in no one lives they should have to encounter such gruesome experience. The Stanford prison experiment was conducted on August 14th to 20th‚ 1971.The team of researchers
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right‚ you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself‚ and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe- This quote to me means that everything happens for a reason and it is sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. I think that this quote says that Everything that happens in one way or another has a direct impact on who you are. How you look at and react to everything that happens around you goes into defining who you
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“We have almost grown accustomed to it; was is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis‚ like influenza and dysentery.” (271) Paul had felt like that war was similar to the sickness. I feel like death from war is like sickness because no one knows whether they are going to die or not. When the recruits join war‚ they never know if they will survive or not. They are there to protect their country. Once the recruits join war‚ they are willing to die for their country. This is similar for diseases
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6.) “Most of this I ’ve told before‚ or at least hinted at‚ but what I have never told is the full truth. How I cracked. How at work one morning‚ standing on the pig line‚ I felt something break open in my chest. I don ’t know what it was. I ’ll never know. But it was real‚ I know that much‚ it was a physical rapture--a cracking-leaking-popping feeling. I remember dropping my water gun. Quickly‚ almost without thought‚ I took off my apron and walked out of the plant and drove home. It was midmorning
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inspiration of Okonkwo through Ikemefuna died when Ikemefuna left‚ but Christianity would be a new inspiration for Nwoye to find himself. My attention broke away from Nwoye when rough falling feet dismantled the silence. Nwoye’s light eyes diverted from the structure onto his ferocious father. Okonkwo was running on the other side of the path from where his biological
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examples that demonstrate precisely how this practice of dehumanizing slaves took place in the Pre-Civil War Era South. His descriptions may be graphic but they are necessary to get his topic across to his audience. The examples Douglass uses of dehumanization not only serve the purpose helping the reader to recognize sociocultural dynamics in that society‚ but also serve the purpose of perhaps brining awareness to the already sympathetic North into taking action against slavery. Self- identity is
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