Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William Godwin, who was a social and political journalist and mother Mary Wollstonecraft, who was one of the first feminists would have heavily influenced her. ... Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions...

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

Frankenstein begins his story in Geneva, at home with his family, during chapter three, his mother dies of scarlet fever after attending to Elizabeth, whom she contracts it from. ... The monster is brought to life in Chapter five, "on a dreary November night, again this adds to the stereotypical image of the horror genre. ... During chapter 24, Walton takes over telling the story, and again Shelley uses epistolary form for him to do this, as Walton is again writing to his sister. ... The monster would collect food for the family and was repaid by them with "Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch&...

• Word Count: 2019
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This belief that a person's mind is a blank slate at birth is not a modern one. ... From Sorrows of Werter he learns about "despondency and gloom " and begins to question his creation, from Plutarch's Lives he learns "high thoughts and about the violent tendencies of human civilization, and from Paradise Lost he learns to identify himself with Satan, the master of evil and violence. ... For example, during the Columbine shootings of 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher and injured twenty-one more students before killing themselves (Colum...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. ... Upon the arrival of humankind in both places though, they become much less like paradise and ultimately carry out the same fate. ... The scar symbolizes how human nature can destroy paradise by simply entering it. ... Along with the lost battle to stay good, or the rise of evil, comes the fall of Simon, who, as stated before, represents goodness and Christ. ... The island being a microcosm of the adult world, the society the boys form is like a mirror of the one they come ...

• Word Count: 3388
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate