fact that her actions were destructive and monstrous. Euripides designed Medea as a silent monster who doesn’t present any superficial monstrous characteristics rather than a traditional monster who shows an apparent monster traits like Dracula or Frankenstein with a gruesome and grotesque appearance. Euripides incorporated Medea’s twisted psychological state of mind overwhelming by emotions and lack of morals, her connection with her grandfather, her powers and actions rather than visual fear in order
Dracula Essay (Topic #4) Novels portrayed by fear, horror, death and mystery are said to be gothic. The genre was originated in the 17th century, but wasn’t popularized until the 18th century when “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley was published in 1818. Another well-known gothic novel is “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. It follows the battle between Dracula,a vampire and a group of men and women trying to stop him from spreading the “un-dead” curse. It’s the ultimate battle between good and evil. “Dracula”
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment Title: Before reading the story, I took a careful look at the title and predicted that this piece would be comparable to that of Frankenstein. The name of the title character paints the picture of a mad scientist, and the mention his so-called experiment alluded to a mental image of a creepy laboratory. In terms of plot, I assumed that his experiment would somehow backfire - and I shuddered just thinking about the endless possibilities. Facts: Dr. Heidegger invites
Prometheus, a cunning, intelligent being gifted with the sight of foreknowledge. He who was kin to the fearsome titans and yet turned his back on them to aid their adversaries, the Olympic gods, to assist in turning the tides during the great war and defeat the mighty titans. Now he lies at the top of Mt. Caucasus bound by the unbreakable chains that Hephaestus himself forged and unwillingly bound Prometheus in. The noble yet arrogant titan was punished for his wrongdoings, to spent eternity void
In the novel, Frankenstein’s Cat, chapter six “Pin the Tail on the Dolphin”, the topic of physically modifying an animal for advanced researches in prostheses is analyzed. The audience is introduced to a dolphin named Winter, who lost her tail in an incident where it was caught in a crab trap. Her tail was snagged so tightly, that the circulation was cut off, resulting in her tail having to be amputated. Winter was taken to a facility known as the Clearwater Marine Aquarium where she was cared for
The female Creature examined in The Book of Margery Kempe explores the radical ideas of self-expression and the challenging of social authority. This Creature hid no emotions and expressed herself freely. Often, her “crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astonished unless they had heard it before” (NA Kempe p430). The creature also weeped and expressed herserlf “as though she had seen our Lord with her bodily eye suffereing his Passion at that time. Before her in the soul
A monster is something that instills fear in an individual or an organization, a monster could be abstract such as an emotion or a policy, and it could also be physical such as Bram Stoker’s fictional vampire character Dracula, a human being or a group of people. One of Cohen’s thesis states that the “The Monster’s body is a cultural body “ One of the various ways Cohen tries to explain this thesis was the use of the metaphor “Like a letter on the page, the monster signifies something other that
In the dark essence of society, sometimes it takes a grotesque novel to stir the realization in humans that there are destructive flaws, which if not acted upon, can end mankind. In Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Iain Bank's The Wasp Factory, both authors take a disturbing yet intriguing look at the flaws of modern society, mainly through the use of two very unique characters. Bret Ellis' American Psycho is similar to Iain Banks The Wasp Factory in the doctrine sense that they are both critiques
Anna Brett Gothic Literature (A) Mrs. Briggs 12 January 2015 The Gothicism of Enjoyment A Nightmare on Elm Street tells a plaguing tale of a group of teenagers who are haunted by repressed memories. Two teenagers by the names of Kris and Dean are at a diner in the beginning of the movie. Dean tells Kris that he has not been able to sleep for days. He begins to fall asleep at the table and is greeted in his nightmares by monstrous man with scratches and burn marks all over his body. As this man
Many movies nowadays can be viewed as being somewhat gothic romantic. One of these would be the movie The Sixth Sense in which we follow the life of Cole who is somewhat of an outcast by his abilities to see and communicate with the dead. Throughout the movie we see him seeing and talking to the dead and giving their family members peace. Growing more isolated from his mother and distrustful of his peers in school, Cole soon comes across child psychologist Dr. Crow who tries to help Cole overcome