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. ...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister in England the progress of his hazardous mission. Though successful early on, the voyage is soon thwarted by seas of impenetrable ice and other complications. Walton then...

• Word Count: 765
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" (pg. 171) The monsters life could have turned out quite differently if Victor had accepted the challenge of directing, disciplining, and caring for the thing he created. ...

• Word Count: 1193
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• Grade Level: High School

Placing Blame Is man "at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?" (104). In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein acquires the power to "give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man" (38). In Victor's eyes, this astonishing breakthrough in s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer said "in order to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Implicit in this statement is the idea that, although we can bake an apple pie, to claim that we create it, we must first have created the molecules with which the pie is compose...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School