Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, she shows nature vs. nurture through Victor Frankenstein and the monster he creates. These two character’s nature intertwines into eachother’s, however, the monster and Frankenstein have different nurturing tendencies. Shelley begins describing Frankenstein’s nature, starting with his ancestory. She explains that his family is “one of the most distinguished” families around (Shelley 18). Frankenstein goes on to depict his family with positive qualities
This essay will examine how gothic fiction is very deeply embedded in the culture and time period in which it was produced. This will be studied through looking at Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto. With gothic fiction being produced during the age of enlightenment, the novels reflect a culture period of intellectualism that prised scientific enquiry and also questions morals and religion. Thus the period departed from the previous social system which
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the recurring theme of “the pursuit of knowledge” to reveal that the danger of knowledge is not the knowledge itself, but instead the possibility of corruption of the knowledge by human society. Mary Shelley’s uses the pursuit of knowledge to put a heavy concern on the responsibility of the creator’s use of knowledge, in regards to creations and discoveries. She has a heavy underlying focus on the responsibilities of scientists to take responsibility and provide
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier can be read through the lens of formalist criticism, which requires the readers to analyze the structure of a particular text that also shows the author's style, tone, imagery etc. This novel revolves around suspense and Max De Winter’s mysterious late wife, Rebecca. The moment in the book when the new Mrs. De Winter runs into a mentally challenged man named Ben, foreshadows or reveals the dual personality of Rebecca when he says “don’t take me to the asylum” hinting