Among its conventions are found dream landscapes and figures of the subconscious imagination. ... " Interestingly Horace Walpole was said to have found the inspiration for Otranto in a dream that he had. ... In Greek Mythology, Hypnos (Sleep) and Thantos (Death) were considered brothers, both being born of the same mother, Nyx (Night). ... The horror of his actions demands that he forgo any illusion of finding comfort where he once found rest. ... Although he decides to forgive his brother at the end of the play and relinquish his magic, it is only after he has put them all through the ...

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Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. ... Even after the death of his brother William, friend Justine and lifetime companion Clerval, he remains so entirely fixated on himself that he cannot even comprehend the possibility that the monster would not target him when given the threat: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night." ... Frankenstein's 19th Century Genevan society is founded on the patriarchal division of gender roles. ...

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The creature shows that until society rejects him he has the emotions to be kind and caring, because as he had often eaten from the DeLacy's store on finding that this causes them to suffer he stops this, 'but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained...' and this shows that he is a good being underneath what he may look like and that he does have a conscience. ... After the creature's rejection from the DeLacy's he comes across William Frankenstein's young brother and believes the child to young to be corrupted and turned by s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate