His mother's death causes a morbid ambition in Frankenstein to create "life from dead matter", which he does eventually. ... Thus Frankenstein begins his morbid craft, he "collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secret of the human frame", and this morose degradation of the science shows how far Frankenstein will go to create "life from dead matter". ... As many people were trying to make this gloomy discovery, Shelley played upon this and used a character that eventually does go on to create "life from dead matter". ... William cries out, d...

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

She owes them the very joy in their lives of which she stripped and with the lovers themselves dead, she has no other way to make amends for her mistake than document the survival of their love. 2. ... No actual atonement can be reached now that the two are dead and unable to grant her the right to relieve herself of guilt. ...

• Word Count: 1179
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He has disturbing dreams, one entailing him embracing Elizabeth, but as he "imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death," and he sees his mother's dead figure before him. ...

• Word Count: 461
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel follows the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientific prodigy, who discovers to secret to life and who uses it to bring to life a creature whom he assembled using various dead body parts. ... His human flaws, his obsession with the creation of a human being clouded his mind and pushed him to gather dead body parts in order to assemble his "masterpiece. " Indeed, Victor never visualized the consequences of his actions, and after so many hours of work, never for one second had he thought about what his creature would look like. ...

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

Faustino Santos warned Leandro Pornoy, the police officer, of the plan, and he also furthered the information to Colonel, yet, due to his failed duty to protect Santiago, the message was never received to the (now) dead victim. ...

• Word Count: 1052
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the essay "Why the Novel Matters" is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Beloved," by Toni Morrison, contains descriptive and graphic scenes, such as a brutal rape scene, tragic infanticide, and bestiality. Various colleges and high schools have placed "Beloved" on the required reading list for young students forcing them to be exposed to this ill-mannered writing. Many...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dostoevsky uses this creative metaphor to describe Raskolnikov's physical environment as a place to hold the dead, suggesting that Raskolnikov will never be able to reconcile his conscience or organize his thoughts after committing the murder. ...

• Word Count: 1326
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Trace the psychological progress of Raskolnikov's mind from the planning stages of the murder through the final realization of love. Raskolnikov fights a constant battle with himself in the beginning of the novel, debating on killing the old lady for her possessions. Eventually, after deciding to un...

• Word Count: 1095
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. Throughout her writing, Morrison continuously focuses on her readers being emotionally connected to the story, as she believes that it reminds the reader about their heritage and most importantly, place in society. She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The simple disregard for the dead engineer by the soldiers continues the satire, which is created through the use of flippant humour. ... Yossarian's dead man in tent scenario torments him perpetually as to him it seems that nothing can be done, until "Yo-Yo's roomies" arrive, and remove the deceased Mudd's belongings, which then gives reason for Yossarian to dislike the new air crew. ...

• Word Count: 2754
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... She is long dead, assassinated, and her sons are dead as well. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... She is long dead, assassinated, and her sons are dead as well. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beatrice uses her new distorted powers to exact revenge on those who have wronged her and was able to haunt her murderer until, "his heart burst, and one morning he was found dead in his bed totally deprived of warmth and animation" (136). ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Understanding that threat is an immediate, man versus man nature by witnessing "the dead impaled on spikes along the road" (33), the father strengthens his ability to protect himself and his son after a series of encounters with "the bad guys" (109). ...

• Word Count: 1772
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. He is the first really great writer to come from the (more or less) working class, and much of his work deals with issues of class, as well as other fundamentals such as the relationships bet...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate