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. ... Much like Victor Frankenstein's convictions during his experiments, Walton is convinced that his discovery of the North Pole will be of great importance to mankind and will bring a solution to many of the problems that men suffer from. ...

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

An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." ... The Name of the Rose is an early fourteenth-century historical narrative framed by the contemporary author's opening description of the manuscript and Adso's end-of-the-century epilogue. ...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate