Walton meets the monster; the monster sorrowful at Victor's death. ... He is a product not of collaborative scientific effort but of dark, supernatural workings.cobb bbr sebbbbw orbb bbk inbb fobb bb: The monster is only the most literal of a number of monstrous entities in the novel, including the knowledge that Victor used to create the monster (see "Dangerous Knowledge"). ... With his ego as an obstacle of his own understanding, Victor truly believes that his creation is for the benefit of mankind and the monster himself, in whom Victor will renew life where death had apparently dev...

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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should break through, and pour light into our dark world. ... It is as if the creature is Adam as his first creation, and also by creating this new species Frankenstein is replacing women - and this can be related to the death of Justine, the female creature, and Elizabeth. ... The character of Frankenstein seems always be searching to become a God-like figure, although there are strong references in the book when there seems to be the darker side to Frankenstein - which can be linked to the creature. ... Frankenstein claims this after the de...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An owl, being a creature of the night, is a true symbol of a herald of death (May 3). ... It is by the fitness of the manners, the death of the passions, the definiteness and consistency of the characters, the beauty and liveliness of the descriptions, and the force and truth of moral sentiments that the true poet is known. ... The first thirteen lines of the poem serve to set the place and dark attitude. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This act leads to her death at the end of the story. ... Yet, her death is very significant for it marks the end of Rappaccini's experiment and the loss of his only companion. ... One notices here the sharp contrast between the darkness associated with the room and "the bright sunshine" of the garden. ... Yet, the romantic writer's rejection of this idea appears when he relates the room (culture) to darkness and unhappiness. ...

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John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied snow: if, passing to the edge of a sheet of it, upon the Lower Alps, early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little round openings pierced in it, and through these emergent, a slender, pensive, fragile flower, whose small, dark purple, fringed bell hangs down and shudders over the icy cleft that it has cloven, as if partly wondering at its own recent grave, and partly dying of very fatigue aft...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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