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    revenge frankenstein

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    Revenge Frankenstein has plenty of revenge in the story. There may have been a lot of revenge in the story but‚ you can not forget that there is also kindness in Frankenstein. The characters have good and bad in them which can leave to revenge. The story is great because you can see how people change throughout time. For an example the creature was nice at first because he was happy to be alive. Then when Frankenstein leaves him his anger increases which leads to revenge. The monster

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    Themes of Frankenstein

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    Theme of Victor Frankenstein It is never clear why society continues to read Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley. Hidden in the major themes‚ we can pinpoint how Victor Frankenstein’s attempt to conquer nature‚ and his lack of responsibility‚ applies to our modern society. If the monster is a metaphor for what man is capable of‚ then Victor Frankenstein is a metaphor for society itself. Society has a hand in shaping mankind; Victor had a hand in shaping his creation but did not take responsibility

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    Prejudice in Frankenstein

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    prejudice has plagued the human race for generations on end‚ even with today’s attempts to teach people to be more accepting. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley expresses this universal idea of prejudice based on appearance multiple times in her novel‚ Frankenstein. Throughout the novel Shelley includes the theme of prejudice. The character being prematurely judged repeatedly is the monster. Victor‚ the monster’s very creator‚ is the first character to judge the monster based on his looks. First‚ he describes

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    Gothic in Frankenstein

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    The Gothic in Frankenstein “I ought to be thy Adam‚ but I am rather the fallen angel...” In Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley uses various mysterious situations for Victor Frankenstein to come across his creation of the monster. Shelley employs the supernatural elements of literature from where Frankenstein gathers body parts for the monster to where the monster kills everyone. She also makes sure that the setting of this gothic/horror novel takes place in Europe so that the readers are not all that familiar

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    Limits In Frankenstein

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    Mankind should tolerate limits on what they should know‚ Gothic literature shows this in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Using horror‚ Mary Shelley exposes the fear that emerges from overstepping boundaries. She also uses violence to show how knowing too much consequently causes mayhem in one’s life‚ ruin their dreams and goals. Mary Shelley also uses the supernatural as an example of something we should not know too much about. Using man as his own worst enemy Mrs. Shelley shows that everything

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    Outcasts in Frankenstein

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    The book Frankenstein is written by the author Mary Shelly. During the book Frankenstein there are a few characters and even a family who have been outcast from society throughout the story. The family that became an outcast is the De Lacey family‚ and Victor Frankenstein was another person other than the monster who is an outcast in society during the story. The De Lacey family was an outcast in the book Frankenstein. The reason that the De Lacey family had become an outcast was because of what

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    Knowledge In Frankenstein

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    The quest for knowledge for Frankenstein comes in the field of science. Science is already in Frankenstein’s mind growing up. After delving more‚ he became passionate about the potential of science. Frankenstein’s search for knowledge gives him a purpose in life. His fondness with the natural sciences becomes his calling‚ and he became obsessed with it. Victor Frankenstein is hell-bent in creating a human being‚ he became disconnected to humanity.

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    Frankenstein prometheus

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    have his liver eaten out every day by an eagle. Every night his liver would grow back. This was to be his punishment for all of eternity. Frankenstein was influenced by this tale. Her husband‚ Percy Shelley‚ began composing his own tale of Prometheus with the title ‘Prometheus Unbound’. He began composing this at the same time Mary starting composing Frankenstein Victor is her modern incarnation of Prometheus. He as Prometheus was‚ is fascinated by the power of electricity (lightning). We can recall

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    Grief In Frankenstein

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    The novel Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley‚ is a romantic/gothic classic with strange similarity to Mary’s own personal life: the losses‚ the stages grief‚ the heartbreak‚ all relating back to life of Mary Shelley. Oddly enough‚ her own life experiences are what she uses as building blocks for this story line and creatively worked into the character own personal lives throughout the novel. Is this just a coincidence or was this book written for her own personal therapy session? This novel is

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    rhetorical

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    - I went to the store‚ parked the car and bought a pizza. 6) Irony- what is expected and what actually occurs 7) Understatement - makes an idea less important that it really is - The hurricane disrupted traffic. 8) Rhetorical question- a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered 9) Oxymoron - a two word paradox‚ a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction - near miss‚ seriously funny 10) Imperative sentence- expresses

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