Through researching the effect of social media and its obsession with perfection, Croke began to create work which reconstructs the 'perfect' through deconstructing and collaging of found and self-made images. ... Croke found this most interesting while it created a sort of opposite yet similar view to the modern augmentation people go under to look a certain way based on popular media figures. ... Croke found the most interesting of all the character 'Mary-Lick'. ... Their work has been described to be within a 'gothic idiom' and was concerned with the hauntin...

• Word Count: 1791
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lastly, it is evident that the monster killed Frankenstein's brother but the death was later on framed on someone else. ... Unfortunately, Chris is found dead in the Alaskan wilderness and this create a lot of concern in respect to responsibility and actions. ... Such aspect of being irresponsibility is seen in the following excerpt, which is found at minute 55: "McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well "relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it....

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Victor longed to rid humanity of " the diseases of the human frame"" and much like Prometheus who brought fire to humanity, Victor sought the secret of life and eventually found it by over-reaching the limits of humanity, bypassing the laws of nature, and eventually receiving prolonged punishment for it. ... Victor was in fact too inexperienced and wasn't ready to carry out the experiments he had in mind, as we can see on page 32 "When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it. ... In retaliation to his...

• Word Count: 1600
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One particularly notable murder is that of William, Victor's younger brother, as the Monster plants evidence that convicts Justine, the Frankensteins' housekeeper and family friend, in the murder of William. ... This eventually leads Victor to the North Pole, where he is found by Walton and his crew in a degenerate state. ...

• Word Count: 1525
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Initially, the monster had been stealing some of the family's food and firewood as a way to secure his own self-preservation, he states "I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighboring wood" (Frankenstein, 77). ... First, he murders Victors brother William. ...

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Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. ... Even after the death of his brother William, friend Justine and lifetime companion Clerval, he remains so entirely fixated on himself that he cannot even comprehend the possibility that the monster would not target him when given the threat: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night." ... Frankenstein's 19th Century Genevan society is founded on the patriarchal division of gender roles. ...

• Word Count: 2624
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many scientists and explorers of the nineteenth century were conquering new ideas and discovering new-found places of the world, it was a time of intellectual on expressive writing, particularly that of the gothic and horror genre utilising the macabre and bizarre. ... When the monster arrives in Geneva, the first person he meets is William, Frankenstein's younger brother. ...

• Word Count: 2019
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The creature shows that until society rejects him he has the emotions to be kind and caring, because as he had often eaten from the DeLacy's store on finding that this causes them to suffer he stops this, 'but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained...' and this shows that he is a good being underneath what he may look like and that he does have a conscience. ... After the creature's rejection from the DeLacy's he comes across William Frankenstein's young brother and believes the child to young to be corrupted and turned by s...

• Word Count: 2951
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate