This shows that he creates the monster out of corpses, just as God creates Satan. ... Victor rejects the monster, similar to God's disgust with Satan's pride. ... The monster relates to Satan, Adam, and Eve. ... Resembling the monster, hence he wants a companion, Eve. Moreover, the monster is much more like Satan, then he is like Adam. ...
Frankenstein goes too far and creates a "monster", which he immediately rejects. ... By doing so, it adds to the monster's hatred for humans. ... The monster is then forced to hate people. The monster's sadness causes him to destroy Frankenstein's life. ... He didn't succeed in killing the monster but the monster succeeds in killing almost everyone that Frankenstein cares about. ...
For the monster, his childlike innocence exists until society ignites his evil actions. ... While his stay here the monster watches avidly to learn how to act "human". ... Unfortunately the family does not accept the monster and he is scared away. ... The monster finally meets up with his creator and begs for an equal counter part. ... This moves Victor emotionally and he decides to make the monster his counterpart. ...
The most important religious comparison in Frankenstein, are the outstanding similarities between Victor as God and the monster as Lucifer. ... However, as time went on, the monsters physical and mental capabilities gave him advantages over Victor and soon enough, he had more power than Victor. The power that the monster retained over Victor wasn't only physical though. During the monsters' fits of anger and rage, his murders emotionally distressed Victor. ... By the monster(evil) overtaking its creator(good), in a way it forecasts the overtaking of good by evil. ...
The epic tells the story of a hero, a prince named Beowulf, who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel, a descendent of Cain, and of his exploits fighting Grendel's mother and a Dragon. Beowulf, as a conquering hero, destroys all the monsters in the sea as well as the giants. ... There will always be the hero looking for fame and glory, and there will always be a monster that, acting like an overgrown child, throws a temper tantrum insisting on having everything his way and destroys everything that opposes him....
Beowulf, which is translated, by Burton raffle, is about a warrior who killed monsters and saved a city. ... For example, Beowulf fought monsters, "The monster's flight, fastened those claws, in his fists till they cracked, clutched Grendel closer. ... A second difference is that Beowulf did not use weapons when he fought, "My hands alone shall fight for me, struggle for life against the monster." ... I swam in the blackness of night, hunting monsters our of the ocean, and killin them one by one; death was my errand and the fate they had earned." ...
The poet tells of how the peace and contentment of Hrothgar ends because Grendel comes and brings misery to the Danes: And then as now warriors sang of their pleasure: so Hrothgar's men lived happy in his hall till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend, Grendel, who haunted the moors, the wild marshes, and made his home in a hell not hell but earth. He was spawned in that slime, conceived by a pair of those monsters born of Cain, murderous creatures banished by God, punished forever for the crime of Abel's death. ... In these lines the poet tells of the sneakiness, greed, a...
In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf and the monsters prove to be foiled characters as the story progresses. ... Beowulf expresses his honor to his men and while fighting the monsters. ... Although Beowulf dies fighting the dragon, his victories against the monsters affirm the ultimate triumph of Good over Evil. ... In an honorable way, Beowulf said, "I'd use no sword, no weapon, if this beast/ Could be killed without itI feel no shame, with shield and sword/ And armor, against this monster" (Beowulf 668-674). ...
Victor abhorred his creation, turned his back on the monster, but the creature did not disappear. ... The monster was alone and would never be able to produce more of his kind. ... Victor creates the monster through science, but he realizes the consequences though experience. ...
"O sancta simplicitas! (sacred simplicity) In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! . How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! How we have been able to give our senses a passport to everything superficial, our thoughts a divine desire for wanton l...
That is why this stage was dragged on until Perseus changed his mind after encountering a fire-belching monster, which tried to kill his villagers including his son; and being informed that his father was captured and betrayed by Ares and Hades. ... The storytelling is very straightforward, single-layered and fast-paced with its complete focus on describing another victorious journey of the great Perseus rather than guiding the viewers to a story of how a demi god, who wants to be an ordinary fisherman, tries to conquer the most terrified monster that even gods fear to save the humanity. ... ...
In the beginning of the story, Beowulf hears about the many killings that plague the Danes and how an unknown monster, later referred to as Grendel, is coming about and causing havoc at Heorot Hall. ... Before Grendel was cast out of society by God "[ ] he had dwelt for a time/ in misery among the banished monsters,/ Cain's clan, whom the Creator had outlawed/ and condemned as outcasts" (34-35). ...
During one of the hunters' celebrations around the kill of an animal a fire-watcher stumbles in to try and disband the idea of the monster. Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. ...
The story of Gilgamesh seems to have many similarities with the Holy Bible. Both have a story about a flood in which most of the human race was destroyed. In both books those who survived did so inside of a boat that ended up resting on a mountain. Both books have a story that tells of birds being s...
Every hero, as a general rule, desires to be remembered for more than one heroic tendency. Every hero in World Literature class has at least three common tendencies: to protect mankind from evil, to use his powers to rescue his family and friends from evil circumstances, and to earn immortality via...
Historians use Primary Sources to study the past. Creation myths explain a particular culture's belief in how the Earth and life came to be (Sources, 1). The document "A Mesopotamian Creation Myth: The Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat" portrays Mesopotamian belief of how the Earth was created, where...
The epic poem of Beowulf was written by up to six different authors. These authors were clearly part of the nations in the middle ages, who were rapidly changing from various Pagan traditions to the monotheistic religion of Christianity. This is apparent because of the numerous literary references...
When trying to understand this, a person approaches the philosophical question,What can I know?? With this philosophical question comes the epic battle between whether or not a person should base an opinion on empicism or rationalism. I believe that I need to be shown facts and logic to understand O...
Devil-bug is portrayed in this way by Lippard through this description: "Deep in the heart of this monster, like a withered flower blooming from the very corruption of the grave, the memory of that fair girl, who, eighteen years ago, had sought the shelter of Monk-Hall, lay hidden, fast entwined around the life-cords of his deformed soul." ... Lippard describes Devil-Bug as a monster, though he alludes that there is a reason for it. ...
Glory, honor, loyalty just a few qualities one chivalric hero would possess when faced by the brink of tension between two forces to which he is devoted to both. Since the Battle of Hastings, England was quickly conforming under the Norman rule of a lion-hearted Crusade fighter, King Richard. Ivanh...
Beowulf was a long and Old English literature written by an unknown Christian author who imposed religion on the story. It was based on legend passed down over time. Prior to the time the poem was written, The Scandinavians, German and French experienced a large-scale conversion to Christianity at t...
THE ODYSSEY From the very start of this story you can begin to see how things in Ithaca are much different from things of other polis's. The fact that the suitors of the area were so blatant in the destruction of the kingdom led me to believe that there was no respect for Prince Telemachus....
The contextual circumstances in which a literary work is composed have a profound effect on the ideas and opinions that composers express within them. This is most notable when examining Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1817). Both texts allude to the th...
Religion and science have always been on shaky grounds with one another. Leaders of the Christian Church saw much science as a blatant attack on God, and a way to condone non-religious life. If God could be disproved in some way, then there would be no one to which humans would be responsible. Li...
