Foust calls a "fantasy antagonist" in his article entitled: "Monstrous Images". ... The monster is of course the antagonist as is true in all imagination of fantasy. ... He lives up to the "fantasy antagonist" label that R.E. ...
Does justice always necessarily prevail through bitter revenge? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows examples of how justice can be blurred with an stubborn and bitter hatred for those who have wronged others. Was Victor Frankenstein justified in destroying the female companion of his creature? Was...
Frankenstein In the literary work Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor the monster's creator, is usually identified as the protagonist. He is the victim of his own creation serving also as an antagonist to himself. This would have never had happened if he wasn't infatuated with the secrets of life...
In The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, author Saricks suggests that a crucial characteristic of the horror genre is "protagonists are often haunted, shattered individuals and antagonists are always sinister, monsters in some form, whether real or imaginary" (Saricks 107). ... Instead, this is her final conflict that will lead to the victory of either the protagonist or the antagonist. ...
Without evil there is no good, without a villain there is no hero. Since a young age, we have been taught that we cheer on the hero and hate the "bad guy." There are villains in movies and in books because we need someone or something root against or to fail in their ventures. In every story there ...
The original novel presents a human monster whose innate goodness is more believable. Furthermore, the monster in the novel inspired more sympathy whereas the monster in the movie inspires fear. The monster seems more human in the novel than in the movie. When watching the movie, the watchers hav...
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...
