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...
Frankenstein grew up around beautiful people, his other and father adopted Elizabeth because of her looks, and Frankenstein even goes on to describe her later on as "bearing a celestial stamp on all her features", this gives the appearance of Elizabeth to be paralleled to that of an angel, because of this upbringing, Frankenstein is unnerved by the "devilish countenance" of the "demon". ... She compares Frankenstein to Lucifer, as he "who like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence", he "is chained in an eternal hell", Shelley uses this literary allusion to show Frankenstein as an angel w...
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...
