Victor stubbornly views science as the only true route to new knowledge and instills all his time into his studies, selfishly forgetting his family and friends in Geneva. ... While walking in town, Victor sees his dear friend Henry Clerval alight from a carriage. Ecstatic, he instantly forgets his own troubles.Almost like reverting back to childhood Victor is joyous and takes his friend back to his apartment and he soon falls ill from fatigue. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

An example of an idea of the dangers of intellect would be through Frankenstein, to whom "life and death appeared ideal bounds" to be broken through, whom succeeds in his intellectual pursuit but at great cost, because in the end he not only loses his brother, wife, and best friend, he also ends up being the most alienated. ... It is true that Frankenstein is a novel about our pursuit of self discovery because Victor created the monster because he wanted to discover the secret of life and it is true that we want to discover the monster within us because various times people say that no one re...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She learns to tell who is her true friend, the meaning of true love, and how to distinguish reality from fantasy. ... Having made clear her own attitude toward Gothic romance (that it is at best implausible, at worst ridiculous, and never true to life) Austen now makes it clear to the reader Catherine's opinion of such books. ... Although this is comical the true punch line of the satire is discovered once it is learned that the only horror inside the chest is a simple list of laundry. ...

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Many would assume that this monster was evil from the very start, but even he recognizes that this was not true. ... Next, is Victor's long time friend, Harry, and finally the creature kills Victor's beloved Elizabeth. ...

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He killed William, Frankenstein's younger brother, Elizabeth, his wife, and also Henry, his best friend. This beast possessed all the necessary characteristics of a true monster: unnatural and extreme deformities, wickedness, lack of humanity for other humans, and the ability to kill. ... The creature was a true accident and mistake of science and could not have been held accountable for his actions. ...

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So focussed on his grasp towards knowledge, Victor's heart was confined from the true essentials which were needed to fulfill it. ... Victor's impressions upon himself became presumptuous, as he abused his knowledge, and he was unable to achieve the glories without the help of a friend. ...

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Though, like Frankenstein, there must be some element of enjoyment or peace which is retrieved from isolation, both Frankenstein and Shelley are able to be alone, or rather away from the influences of society, they are both more capable of expressing their true selves. ... The monster's sadness over his estrangement is described, "I am an unfortunate and deserted creature; I look around, and I have no relation or friend upon earth" (Shelley 133). ...

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Throughout the book, Shelly uses the words, "friend, monster, daemon, vile insect, enemy, and abhorred devil" to describe the monster. ... Are scientists, like the ones at CloneAid for example, true scientific pioneers whose work will result in the extent, or even the perpetuality, of human life or are they simply a modern, modern Prometheus? ...

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