Through Frankenstein, she shows the readers that good and evil are not always easy to determine, and that human beings have both of these qualities within themselves. However, readers tend to want to label the characters of a novel as either good or evil, hero or villain. ... It is difficult to decipher who represents good and who represents evil. One would initially assume the Monster is the evil one, yet it is Victor who creates the Monster and then hides from the responsibility. ... Victor cannot continue his life while repressing his inner unconscious passions, nor can he bear the sight ...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8

It's very different in the novel Dracula' because the monster' in this is without doubt truly evil. ... In Dracula' you have you have both antagonists, this being Count Dracula he represents evil, and the protagonists is all the good which we see within the novel. ... In many ways Dracula is represented as the epitome of evil. ... But since the monster was evil in his ways he was unable to experience any of these virtues, which cause him to become evil, and which starts his killing spree. The creature became him evil where as Dracula was born evil and he too could never ...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Fielding was undoubtedly Augustan in his beliefs in the stability of social rules and the necessity of a social and psychological compromise, but his mocking attitude towards literary stipulation represents a more moderate Augustan replication. ... Where the classical was obsessed with order, the gothic exemplified chaos; where simple and pure, Gothic was ornate and lustful; where tradition was expected to be followed, the Gothic represented boundless exaggeration; and where reason was respected, imagination took hold. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fielding was undoubtedly Augustan in his beliefs in the stability of social rules and the necessity of a social and psychological compromise, but his mocking attitude towards literary stipulation represents a more moderate Augustan replication. ... Where the classical was obsessed with order, the gothic exemplified chaos; where simple and pure, Gothic was ornate and lustful; where tradition was expected to be followed, the Gothic represented boundless exaggeration; and where reason was respected, imagination took hold. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frankenstein began on a ship in the Far North, which was both cold and a symbol of evil of some sort. In this story, it symbolized the evil of strong ambition, which Walton surely had. ... Zola often used adjectives and colors to represent evil, death, and fright. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

A classic gothic novel emphasises fear and terror. It has the presence of the supernatural, the placements of events within a distant time and an unfamiliar and mysterious setting. Romantic writer Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein conforms to these conventional "classic" Gothic traits as well as t...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shelly's "Prometheus Unbound- is relentless in his resistance and glorifies the virtues of revolt, representing authority (political, religious and scientific) as responsible for man's sufferings. ... "Neither evil nor inhuman, [the creature] comes to seem little more than morally uniformed, poorly `put together` by a human creator who has ill served both his creation and his fellow humans [ ] (Telotte, 1995, p. 76). ...

• Word Count: 2302
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate