The first dream from the novel is Walton's and his dream to reach the North Pole. ... On putting fame first he says, "My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path" (29). ... One dream was to have a female companion for himself because he had no one. ... Karl Kroeber argues that fantasy and science fiction are especially intertwined because they have a common origin. ... She tried to show equality in her writing since she couldn't have it in her own life. ...

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Later in a terror or dream drove her back through her world of realties all in one night. She then decided she must write using "hideous progeny" and frighten the reader as much as the dream had frightened her. ... The classification I would put on this article if it were an essay would be most likely and informative. The reason I believe this I sit points out certain things in the book a normal reader would not pick up on. ... Also as you read the article the title unmasks itself so you can have a better understanding of it. ...

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and fate; of lust and power, of monsters of the deep unconscious and of unknown but overwhelming beings which fill our nights with nightmarish dreams and make us fear our sleep, but which, rightly used, can be fruitfully integrated into our personality. ... HADFIELD The essence of the Frankenstein...

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"No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. ... "I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity. ... When Victor sees what he has created, he is immediately repulsed by the monster and hides. "...now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. ... "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" (pg. 171) The monsters life could have turned out quite differently if Victor had accepted the challenge of d...

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Just as Victor lacks the correct motives, the creature lacks the physical beauty needed to live up to Victor's dreams. ... Instead of starting small and creating something he will be able to handle, Victor dreams only of the greatness such a being will have. ... He never dreams of needing to give him love or care; he only sees the present task of completing the being. ... Upon meeting Victor, the monster tells him just that: "Remember that I am thy creature, I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed" (84). ... Through his over...

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When I finished reading the novel, I sympathized with two lead roles of the story, Frankenstein and the Monster. ... That's reason why I pity for Frankenstein. In fact, Frankenstein's initial dreams are that benefit mankind and create a race which would be grateful to him, but he suffered a series of tragedies. ... I think Frankenstein should have taken responsibility for his creation and shouldnt have abandoned him even though the Monster's face is very dreadful. ... Did he have a right to create and abandon the creature? ...

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What must he have done?' ... When he returns to his apartment, Frankenstein finds it empty, and becomes joyful, almost hysterically so ( I could hardly believe that so great a good fortune could have befallen me' I felt my flesh tingle with an excess of sensitiveness'). ... This could have been done to make us pity Frankenstein, and this is the reason I feel Shelley added it in; however, one must also consider the feelings of his creation, the monster he deserted and left alone in the world. ... I think Frankenstein was blinded' by his dream, in the same way that peo...

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He states, "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(Shelley 35). ... "Shall each man, cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? ... Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. ... They both did not have anything to live for but to avenge each other. ...

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Victor Frankenstein and God have many similarities, as they are both creators of incarnations. ... Characters from different novels have similar personalities. ... Furthermore, Victor is disgusted with his own creation, "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." ... Adam quotes " for with thee/ Certain my resolution is to die; /How can I live without thee?" ... In addition, "Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded," the monster is rejected, as his second, excluded on account of his pride and envy of God. ...

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He explains, "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." ... When the monster learns that the most respected men in society have wealth and influence, He says, "I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property ." I feel bad for Frankenstein's monster and understanding of his view of humanity. ... That is how I view the theme of the novel is about human cruelty towards outsiders. ... So I understand his pain in the hatred he receives because it is not his fault he is the way he is it is Victors fault but that is another theme....

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As Victor speaks to his professors of his progress he states, "Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make" (29). ... Feeling faulted for many deaths of his family, Victor mourned, "Nothing is more painful to the human mind after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear" (61). ... From this moment, Victor's mind became corrupted, ...

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The Monster expressed this in chapter 10 by saying "All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! ... The lack of the Monster having a name is very significant to the story line. ... Frankenstein did not have those feelings though. ... In the scene were Victor finally gives life to his monster he suddenly is not excited any longer and in chapter 5 he states this very clearly "I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled...

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The novel discusses themes that have continued to ponder readers" minds even today. ... If Victor would have been the proper parent figure, and provided guidance on how to interact with society, he may have been better able to deal with and accept what others thought of him. ... Many psychologists have done work o the effects of isolation on humans and animals. ... Unsociable females that did have babies were neglectful. ... His creator's dream of greatness turned into a nightmare, and a story of unimaginable effects. ...

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Do not fancy anything right, do not fancy that I could teach or assert what would better mankind or what might convert. I also have neither money nor treasures, nor worldly honors or earthly pleasures; no dog would want to live this way!... Although, the characters have different desires their actions and thoughts are closely identical. ... When Victor's creation transforms itself from idea to reality, Frankenstein immediately looses control over it and himself. ...but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to...

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He then forces the creature to have a similar childhood which ends in destruction. ... He was an only child until he was five years old and his parents doted on him when he says "I was their plaything, and their idol... This is shown when, after creating the creature, seeing the contrast between his dream and his reality of the " miserable monster,"(35) he flees his apartment and on return, realizing the creature has escaped, he says "I clapped my hands for joy... Upon coming to life, the creature " might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me... T...

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"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and I had to form?'' ... "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.... It is ironic but entirely appropriate that, in the process, the nameless monster seems to have usurped the name ...

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In Mary Shelly's novel, Frankenstein, both Victor and the monster he creates have personalities that tell an enormous amount about their parts in the story, and the story itself. ... He admits his lack of power, as if he were possessed, by stating, "One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the human frame, and indeed, any animal endued with life Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome, and almost intolerable." Victor wants to find a knowledge that has yet to have been di...

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For this I deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (Shelley 156). ... "During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture. ... Also, he knows that his experiments, should not have happened, and were against the laws of nature and god. ... "I will be with you on your wedding night" (Shelley, 131). ...

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This would have never had happened if he wasn't infatuated with the secrets of life, and the urge to create such a being. ... "The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." ... "I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. ...

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When Frankenstein first created the monster he thought it would be glorious, but when reality set in he noticed that the experiment might have crossed the line. His feelings toward the creature at "birth" were clear; "now that I finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (42) Victor then flees only to return when the creature vanishes. ... "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend" (84). ... I will not hear you. ... "Hateful day when I received life! ...

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The tests of this research have been successfully performed on animals and we have seen cloned sheep, dogs, and many other animals. ... Victor Frankenstein's dream was to "explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation" (Shelly 47). His dream was, in fact, playing God. ... Frankenstein states, "That I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."" ... His creator, "unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, rushed out of the room" (Shelly 56). ...

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Walton hopes, that in embarking on such an expedition, he will help all mankind:- "You cannot contest the inestimable benefit that I shall confer on all mankind" Walton believes, that, by discovering the North Pole, he will be able to provide shorter journey routes for people all over the world. ... Further on, after several letters have been written discussing his health and progress in his journey, Walton remarks:- "I desire the company of a man." ... He has a dream, and believes that his circumstances "are as fixed as fate". ... Therefore, without Captain Walton havin...

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The idea came to her in a dream. (Applebookshop.com) "I saw a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, then on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life. ... (Applebookshop.com) Now, with the basis of her novel, she went on and completed it the spring of 1817, and have it published January 1, 1818. ... Another view point of the novel was a reflection of her fears about having a deformed child, or having a child that she would not be able to love. ...

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I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived" (Chapter 5). ... "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." ... For example, we have a person who wants to apply for a job and has an interview. ... I do not believe the opposite, it is true, but what if I am very intelligent and have faith that I will do the best I can in my job but do not...

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Victor Frankenstein's dream was to "explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation" (pg 47). ... Frankenstein states, "That I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet." (pg 56)The beauty of this dream however, vanished, and "Breathless horror and disgust filled his heart" (pg 56) when this being was actually came to life. ... However the monster states, "you are my creator, but I am your master, obey!" ... I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness" (pg 162). ...

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