“Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it‚ it was the love of virtue‚ the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed‚ that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow‚ and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair‚ in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die‚ I am well satisfied that abhorrence
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How are monsters created? The question whether people are born evil or are transformed has been around forever. The Creature from Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley‚ and Grendel from Grendel‚ written by John Gardner‚ had similar situations. Grendel was a beast who had no communication with humans or any other living creature. He could understand the humans‚ but they could not understand him. He could not even communicate with his mom because she had forgotten the language long ago. He was isolated
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A Monster Made by Society Ashley Buckle ENG3U Mr. Sharpe January‚ 2014 Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a gothic horror book written in the 1800’s; it is the story of a scientist creating a monster which turns against him and torments him. Through this story Mary Shelley demonstrates the idea that mankind is neither good nor evil‚ and through this we are shown the story of Frankenstein’s creature and what it has to endure after it is abandoned by his creator. Like the rest
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Man (Victor) vs. God Half-frozen‚ trembling‚ and troubled are all adjectives that could describe Victor Frankenstein when a ship captain by the name of Robert Walton rescued him in the middle of the Artic. From dialogue between the two‚ we are informed that Victor Frankenstein has spent his entire life trying to learn everything he could about science and medicine. However‚ Victor used his knowledge differently than his professors had intended for him to. Written in 1816‚ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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Hypertrichosis: The Werewolf Syndrome The disease Hypertrichosis‚ also known as “The Werewolf Syndrome‚” causes unwanted/abnormal hair growth either in one spot or all over an affected person’s body. There are two main types: Naevoid‚ and Congenital. Naevoid Hypertrichosis‚ is where the hair grows in one spot on the body‚ sometimes the limbs but usually proportional in the facial area. Congenital is where hair covers a majority of the body‚ sometimes right after birth! In severe cases‚ the
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Introduction Blackwood’s Magazine is a British periodical that has controversy soaked within its history‚ more so than any other periodical in the nineteenth century. However‚ this controversy is most visibly prominent in the first eighty to one hundred years of the magazine’s existence‚ from 1817 to 1900. Somehow Blackwood‚ a politically driven publication‚ gave a rise to gothic fiction and the serialized novel‚ which paved the way as well as influenced writers such as Charles Dickens and Edgar
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A promising young monster had a dream of becoming a Scarer. That was his dream‚ his ambition ‚ all he has ever prayed and lived for. He kept nursing his dream as he kept writing series of examinations just to gain admission into Monsters University. He failed severally till the day he got lucky and gained admission into the University. His first day in school‚ he observed what he never ever had thought about nor ever given a consideration which is "he is too handsome to be a monster". All the monsters
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“Somewhere between Calabria and Corfu the blue really begins... A peninsula nipped off while red hot and allowed to cool into an antarctica of lava…” These are two of the opening lines from Lawrence Durrell’s book “Prospero’s Cell”‚ originally published in 1945. This is the book that made Corfu famous‚ as it is generally accepted. While these claims could be argued as overblown‚ indeed the “Girl of the Ionians” could not have found a fitter chronicler. Seductively balancing descriptive prose with
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Throughout many old works of English literature there are many different perspectives on the origin of evil. In Beowulf‚ Grendel is a monster who was exiled from society for being a descendant of Cain. As a result he has been considered an outcast by society and thus acts malicious against society. In Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ Victor Frankenstein breaks the natural order of life when he manages to discover the secret to creating life and succeeds in creating a living human. However‚ upon realizing
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“It was on a dreary night of November‚ that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony‚ I collected the instruments of life around me‚ that I might infuse a spark of being in to the lifeleless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes‚ and my candle was nearly burnt out‚ when‚ by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light‚ I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard‚ and
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