...Frankenstein When a crime is committed, the blame is usually placed on the criminal and this is because a crime cannot take place without a criminal. However, a criminal always has a reason for his actions. Crimes can be prevented if proper precautions are taken. In Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein, a creature is created and given life to, by Victor Frankenstein and it causes several emotional pains to him. Yet the monster is not being solely responsible for them. The creature is born like a fully grown newborn, despite its size; it knows nothing of the world. It can be argued that the creature’s mind is like a “blank slate” and that it only learns to be good or bad from its experiences. Therefore it’s not born good or bad, but learns the bad behavior we see in the novel, from those surrounding him. Frankenstein’s monster was judged by society due to his unusual physical appearance and this caused him to become evil and commit murders to his own creator’s loved ones. The encounters the creature has with people he meets, makes him hate himself over and over again because people react with fear and detest to his disproportioned and twisted appearance. The monster demonstrates the reaction of people in the village when they see him as he states, “some of the people ran away when they saw me [the monster] but the others shouted and threw stones at me. They wanted to kill me.” (Shelley 22). The monster feels judged and mistreated by the people of the village. There was no...
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...English Assignment Creature Creation Unit Project for Frankenstein BRUCE Suliman Mohammad Diary Entry 1: Does your creation have any physical or mental shortcomings? Explain. 14-06-1825,1725, During my experiments, I found the secret to life and death. I found immortality. I stared death right in the eyes and overcame it. I went to the graveyard many times experimenting with cold, rotting corpses. Many times I have failed and lost all hope. But my desire to beat nature and destiny was so overwhelming that I just kept on coming back for more. Every time I came close to bringing the corpses back to the world of the living, I find that the creatures are extremely ugly. Physically, they are imperfect. My latest creation is Bruce. Bruce has been six feet under the dirt for so long that he is in his final stages of decay. His body has bits and pieces of flesh and skin that are just not there. Worms and maggots are all over his body. I found out that Bruce was killed in a street fight. Bruce was not a bad person but he wasn’t exactly a good person either. After bringing him back from his demise, Bruce came out of the chamber with no flesh on his right arm; his left thumb was detached from his hand, he was limping. Bruce was an abomination to God, humanity, and nature. Although he in no way physically perfect, Bruce was smarter than I imagined. Diary Entry 2: What physical or intellectual strengths does your creation have? Do they compensate for the...
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...Key Quotes to Memorise/Familiarise yourself with Stasiland “Ostalgie” “Vergängenheitsbewältigung” “She didn’t seem bitter about her belief in the GDR she seems, somehow, nostalgic” (about Julia) “German mentality” “A certain drive for order and thoroughness” “People were crazy with pain and secrets” “As time went on there was more and more work to do, because the definition of enemy become wider and wider” “I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted” “Capitalism is above all, exploitation” “Everyone suspected everyone else” “When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human” (Miriam) “Not one of the torturers at Hohenschönhausen has been brought to justice” “We’d have to shoot our own people. And we knew, just like under Hitler, that if we refused we’d be taken off and shot ourselves”. “Whether a certain time had been allowed to elapse before things could begin to be rewritten”. To dig it up, or leave it lie in the ground?” Frankenstein “Did I request thee maker, from my clay, to mould me man, did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” “A new species would bless me as its creator” “I ought to be thy Adam, but rather I am a fallen angel” “I shall satiate my ardent curiousity” “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful” “I am an outcast in the world forever” “I am malicious because I am miserable” “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear” “”I know...
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...Charles King Frankenstein Questions Preface 6. they were written to Robert Walton’s sister. 7. He was in the arctic 8. walton found victor nearly frozen to death 9. He liked Victor 10. he was chasing the monster. Chapters 1-5 1. Victor Frankestein 2. Caroline offered to raise her 3. Henry Clerval 4. ghosts or devils 5. He watched a tree being hit by lightning during a storm. 6. His mom died and he went to university. 7. to resurrect the dead 8. he was terrified 9. he got sick. 10. Henry Clerval Chapters 6-9 1. a letter from Elizabeth 2. they studied and went for walks 3. William had been murdered 4. He saw the monster 5. Justine, A servant found the locket that Elizabeth had given to William in Justine’s pocket. 6. he thought the creature committed the murder. 7. he tried to free justine 8. she was hanged 9. he felt remorseful. 10. Alpine Valley Chapters 10-15 1. he met the creature 2. he wanted to kill the monster 3. a wife 4. confused like a baby 5. they chased him and threw rocks 6. he stayed in a coop. 7. He saw that they cared for each other 8. He learns to speak and read 9. the blind man engaged in conversation. 10. Felix hit him with a stick until he left the cottage. Chapter 16-20 1. he burned it 2. the man shot the creature 3. it was William 4. he strangled him 5. he found the locket on William and put it in justices pocket. 6. he was happy to create misfortune for victor 7. make him a wife 8. first he refused...
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