THE APPLE OF DISCORD Thetis‚ a sea-nymph‚ and King Peleus were getting married. All the gods and goddesses were invited to the ceremony‚ except Ate‚ goddess of discord. She was not invited because she had a bad temper and often ruined parties. When the gods and goddesses discovered she had come to the ceremony anyways‚ she was kicked out. Upon leaving‚ she left a golden apple on a table‚ with a note reading “to the fairest”. All the goddesses began fighting over it‚ as they all thought they were
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When we talk about Religion and Mythology‚ often we mistake them for the same thing. This is often due to the fact that‚ both are based around stories and full of miracles and special events that‚ we the readers from a 21st century perspective deem as logically and physically impossible. Growing up as a child‚ religion was a pillar that I personally was brought up with yet at the same time when it came to aspects such as entertainment‚ Mythology is a key influence on children’s programmes. There
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In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or‚ The Modern Prometheus‚ Shelley compares monstrosity and humanity in a unique way by narrating part of the story from the monster’s point of view. The passage where the monster relates himself to Adam and Satan occurs in Volume II‚ after he has read several books including Paradise Lost (Shelley 90). The monologue of the monster plays a significant role in the text since it unfolds the inner world of the monster to the reader‚ while revealing the similarity
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Modern Prometheus‚ Victor Frankenstein is portrayed as the tragic hero. “…Suggestion of the guardian angle of my life-the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars and ready to envelop me‚”(Shelly‚ 32). This quote is the foreshadowing the doom that is soon to come for the tragic figure. A tragic figure involves a character that most likely has to die because of a certain tragic flaw they obtain. In Frankenstein‚ The Modern Prometheus‚ Mary
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(Frankenstein‚ page 86) By looking at this extract taken from a novel‚ anybody would think that it was written by a very experienced writer; however‚ it is surprising that the author of the book was still a teenager. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley. It was first published in London in 1818 and some people say that it was the very first science fiction novel ever written in that time. This classic horror story has been enormously popular and continuously
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In the novel Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ Victor Frankenstein is the true monster‚ not the creature himself. Victor Frankenstein grew up in Geneva. He had a strong interest in reading the works of the ancient and outdated alchemists‚ and was fascinated by science and the "secret of life." One day he decided that he wanted to study further‚ so Victor actually created a person of his own out of old body parts and strange chemicals. When the creature came to life‚ he was a hideously ugly beast
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nature by discovering natural law‚ something that Shelley refutes both by depicting negative effects of such actions and demonstrating some recognition by Victor’s character. First‚ the title The Modern Prometheus seems to reflect that Victor wrongfully overstepped his boundaries as it alludes to Prometheus who tried to trick Zeus and was punished heartily for such. In the novel‚ when Victor was in the process of constructing his creature he expressed his desire to create a superior species that would
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Frankenstein and Male Reproduction Mary Shelley ’s character of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein‚ The Modern Prometheus‚ is driven to madness by his envy of women and their ability to reproduce so much so that he tries to reinvent the nature of reproduction without the female with disastrous results. Dr. Frankenstein ’s scientific experiment‚ which produces a deformed‚ human from spare body parts is a commentary on male reproduction and predicts the bioethical consequences of the modern
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4‚ 1792 in Horsham‚ England. He is the first of seven children of Sir Timothy Shelley and his wife Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley. When Percy was 12 he enrolled at Eton College which was a boys’ boarding school. He was bullied by his classmates for his eccentric ways and dainty appearance. When Shelley turned 18 he enrolled at Oxford University. He was uninterested toward his studies and barely attended class. Percy instead spent his time writing a novel called
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There are many themes that exist within any one science fiction story. Religion‚ technology‚ aliens and visions of the future tend to be the more of the popular themes but one theme that over looked is that of family values‚ more specifically gender roles. In many of the stories‚ there seems to be either similar or lack of family values. In The Jetsons: The Rosie Episode‚ Anthem by Ayn Reid and "Mimsy were the Borogroves" by Lewis Padget ‚ the idea of family values or enhanced and forgotten at the
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