Ali Mufti- Year 12 English Extended Response- Slessor’s Poetry Essay Question: In your view‚ how does Kenneth Slessor’s poetry create the concept of memorable ideas through poetic techniques? A memorable idea is a concept that is thought about or remembered by a person because of the meaning that it may create. Slessor’s poems “Out of time” and “Beach Burial” convey the concept of memorable ideas. This is done through the thematic concerns of the poems‚ along with the use of poetic techniques
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Feminism in Frankenstein Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein during an era in which women were fighting for a voice in life and society. Shelley reflected feminism from her personal life in this renowned gothic novel. The female characters of the novel were merely props and accents to the male characters of the novel. They made minimal contributions in the plot. The male characters viewed females as possessions and caretakers for their house and children. The roles of female characters in the novel
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Texts are inclined to represent their historical and social context as differing zeitgeists provide varying understandings of the repercussions of the desire for control. Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley initially in 1818 and Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott in 1982 both make complex comments on the consequences of desiring control. Shelley reveals this through her emphasis on what is it to be human whereas Scott focuses largely on the impact of scientific advancements on society. However
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In the novel Frankenstein by‚ Marry Shelly there is a unique narrative structure that uses characters telling stories to one another. There are three main narratives used in the novel. These narratives are; Victor telling Walton his tale‚ so that Walton does not make the same mistakes that Victor himself made. The second is the monster telling victor of his acquisition of knowledge and time spent with the cottagers and‚ the third is Walton writing to his sister to inform her of his journeys events
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Kenneth Slessor was a well known Australian poet whom was also an official correspondent during the second World War. Slessor was born on the 27th of March 1901 in Orange‚ New South Wales. Kenneth Slessor was one of Australia’s leading poets. He was notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into the Australian poetry. William Street and Beach Burial are the two poems that contain such techniques which shape significant ideas in Slessor’s poetry. William Street is a poem
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Gothic in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein Gothic novel is a terrified story in which most of the actions as well as the setting are the mysterious and terrifying one. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is a good example of a gothic novel‚ but this novel is not a mere gothic one‚ it is a mixture of gothic and romance in which gothic is the dominant element. Frankenstein is a story of Victor Frankenstein‚ a young scientist‚ who wants to know how to create life‚ and finally he makes a monster out of the rests of
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How are the letters at the beginning of Frankenstein been used to convey the key themes and ideas and context of Mary Shelley’s time? The letters at the beginning of the novel strongly portray the key Romantic ideas of the time – cultivated individualism‚ reverence for the natural world‚ idealism‚ physical and emotional passion‚ and an interest in the mystic and supernatural. This is mainly seen through the narrator-protagonist Walter‚ who shows himself as a Romantic‚ with his “love for the marvellous
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Kenneth Edelin is a third year resident at Boston City Hospital in Massachusetts. His supervisor‚ Hugh Holtrop‚ assigned him to do an abortion for a seventeen-year-old girl named Alice Roe. Ms. Roe and her mother signed a consented to carry out the abortion. Edelin performs a Caesarean surgery because it was safer for Ms. Roe’s health. While performing the surgery‚ Edelin had to prolong the surgery three minutes after the placenta was removed‚ so he could cut off any supply to the fetus. Then he
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monster is said the first thing people think of is the Disney movie Monsters Inc. with their cute‚ harmless‚ and playful monsters‚ but that was not always the case two hundred years ago. As evidence in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ a Romantic novel written in 1818 about a man‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ who through the process of reanimation creates a being but turns himself into a monster instead of creating one. Also in the Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ written by Oscar Wilde in 1890 about a nobleman
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Junior English 2-16-13 Society; the Cause of Isolation In Frankenstein‚ the author Mary Shelley portrays the creature created by Dr. Frankenstein as a figure who is rejected from society which causes his isolation‚ becoming an outsider to the world and everyone around him. The characters which lead to the isolation of this creature are the creature himself‚ Dr. Frankenstein‚ and basically everyone else who encounters Frankenstein other than the blind man. The main ideas which surround this novel
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