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    Frankenstein: A Novel Worth Studying Not only is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein an engaging novel‚ but also promotes such influential movements‚ eras‚ and philosophies based upon her time. Through in depth study and application‚ Frankenstein provides its readers with an intricate plot‚ while also offering relations that may be observed from different points of view. In addition‚ Shelley’s literary piece manifests upon how severe consequences may become if one opposes fate. Being the Romantic Era’s most

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    methods of figurative language. “Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs‚ Broken apart like a woman’s heart‚ abused in a marriage‚ the brink of holy war‚ bottled up‚ like a miscarriage” This line is layered with symbolism and similes. He cleverly uses biblical stories with emotional tragedy to describe the splitting of a nation with foreshadows of war. As a listener it’s hard not to feel emotion with this imagery. Throughout most of the song you hear eccentric figurative language

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    The cruelty of society‚ within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ is examined in various ways. The monster within the novel experiences the world when he is created and becomes lost. Since the dawn of man‚ adapting to society and possessing a feeling of belonging has been an instinct. Many different societies possess different cultures that individuals always try to accustom themselves to‚ from the way people dress to how a family is raised. Those who do not accustom themselves to the accepted culture

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    has been…(Shelley 12)¨. The pursuit of knowledge has always been a weakness of man throughout history‚ even though it has been encouraged to be ¨knowledgeable¨‚ there has been a fine line of danger that accompanies any amount of knowledge that can be acquired. In the story of Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ expresses this idea as the main character Victor Frankenstein is in pursuit of information and knowledge that can change the nature and even the purpose of life and death. Mary Shelley expresses

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    Forman used a lot of figurative language and imagery. One time he used figurative language was when he was describing Vergland‚ “Everything looked brown and dead‚ like open fields after a long winter (Forman‚ p. 81).” This was a good way to describe this part of the story because it gives you a clear description of what it looked like where they were traveling through and why they needed all the supplies that they had. Another example of figurative language is allusion. This is used in the

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    of Foreshadowing in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein "But I forget I am moralizing in the most interesting part of my tale; and your looks remind me to proceed." (33) Foreshadowing is an important part of any novel. It can be use to heighten suspense because as a reader is going through a novel the foreshadowing is telling them that something bad is about to happen and it is their job to follow the clues and try to guess what it is. Through out the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley‚ the three main narrators

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    We cry "scapegoat" to stigmatize all the phenomena of discrimination – political‚ ethnic‚ religious‚ social‚ racial‚ etc. – that we observe about us. We are right. We easily see now that scapegoats multiply wherever human groups seek to lock themselves into a given identity – communal‚ local‚ national‚ ideological‚ racial‚ religious‚ and so on’ (160). Fear and frustrations As seen with Fisher’s notion that there is a lack of central exchange‚ Girard notes that: ‘the real source of victim

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    1. The first example is on line 17. It reads: “Reason burns a brighter fire‚ which the bones”. The next example is on line 21. It reads: “It is the light at the center of every cell.” The last example is on line 22. It reads: “It is what sent the snake coiling and flowing forward” 2. A) The first example is on line 20. It reads: “But this morning the shoe-box house on the back porch is empty.”

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    The standard novel Frankenstein is a mass of horrific situations. Writer‚ Mary Shelly demonstrates her passionate side of ghost stories as she fulfills them within her novel. As she writes the novel Frankenstein‚ it enlightens her to come up with many ideas relating to horror stories. Frankenstein‚ is a novel that should make one’s blood run cold because of all the wrong and offset things that happen between the creature and civilians that are in it. It is uplifted from the beginning of the novel

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    Frankenstein‚ a book by Mary Shelley about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein‚ exhibits many elements and has lots of hidden symbolism within the text. My creature really shows just how unique this book is by having each body part represent some element of the book. The head of the monster is supposed to represent how quick the monster learns and how reading affected his growth. The monster learns language very quickly “My days were spent in close attention‚ that I might more speedily master the

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