The plot of the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" revolves around the character of a winged man who has fallen to earth, but even though the story revolves around this character, the story's true focus is not on the angel, but on the people that get involved around this man. ... From the story we don't know anything about the angel; we never discovered where is he coming from or what is he really doing. ... Then the neighbor came to take a look at the old man and she said "He's an angel", but the reason for the angel to be present there was because that " He must...

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The monster wreaks havoc on the Victor's life, "; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval," leaving him with a burden of guilt, just as God loses his angels to Satan, Victor loses his family and friends to the monster. ... If God could so easily order the fallen angels to be pushed out of Heaven, why did he let the war go on for three days? ... Satan moreover does the alike, when he "takes" God's angels. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Frankenstein grew up around beautiful people, his other and father adopted Elizabeth because of her looks, and Frankenstein even goes on to describe her later on as "bearing a celestial stamp on all her features", this gives the appearance of Elizabeth to be paralleled to that of an angel, because of this upbringing, Frankenstein is unnerved by the "devilish countenance" of the "demon". ... She compares Frankenstein to Lucifer, as he "who like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence", he "is chained in an eternal hell", Shelley uses this literary allusion to show Frankenstein as an angel w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How are both Stoker and Shelley able to horrify their readers, not through graphic violence but through images of the loss of humanity, in Stoker's Dracula' and Shelley's Frankenstein'? In both novels we get a sense of a loss of humanity with the characters, but of which characters? The monst...

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• Grade Level: High School