After the creation of the monster, Frankenstein has a nightmare in which he embraces and kisses Elizabeth before he realises that he is holding the body of his mother. ... He satisfies his obsession to be reunited with his mother by becoming a mother himself by making the monster, forcing him to reject a relationship with Elizabeth. ... The Creature himself questions Frankenstein's rejection of him: "Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust". ... An example of language used to convey this idea of Frankenstein as a male-mother is visible after the...

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Whenever my father has the time, he will sit down with me and discuss how to improve my way of life. He would teach me how to tackle disagreements, sort out problems I encounter and pass on skills that I will need when I enter the working society in future. Among these discussions, the best examples...

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Frankenstein seems to be a fantastic story of a monster created by a man gone mad with scientific lust. ... Victor's thoughts embody Mary's pain of losing children: "Remorse extinguished every hope.I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetuate some new wickedness. ...

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Hamlet's Loneliness Shakespeare's work "Hamlet" focuses on several general themes that run throughout literature. The least obvious theme is loneliness. In Hamlet most of the suffering and loneliness Hamlet endures is brought with the secrets and betrayals he is forced to keep. In the story th...

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A person's family plays a significant role in an individual's aspirations and goals. Some aspire to be like a parent, older sibling or relative. Duddy Kravitz's only real family relationship is with Simcha, Duddys scrupulously honest though unbending Grandfather. Not many people, other than Simcha, ...

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A critic once said that an important part of an excellent literary work is the ability of the piece to produce a mix of delight and uneasiness in the reader. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath produces a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude by means of the good and bad. Bonds were forme...

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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...

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Soon, Grete abstains the use of her brother's name when she cries to her parents "I refuse to utter my brother's name in the presence of this monster, and so I say: we must try to get rid of it"" (pg. 306). ...

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While reading this document about Keversau's return to Paris, I felt that he focused on family. "So there I was packed into a stage-coach surrounded by sinister faces, for at that moment, none but revolutionaries and government agents dared to move about. My mind was filled with the darkest pres...

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Instead I fell in love with a liar, a monster, a manipulator named Francis John Kufrovich a forty-one year old man who had many sexual encounters with young girls and one boy that were my age, but had never been charged due to silence from his victims. ...

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She was a shop til you drop, cherry red convertible driving, baseball loving, sun bathing beauty. She has always been my mentor, my confidant, and my rock. She has been there for me when I was at my absolute worst. And she continues to be there for me to this very day. She is the most amazing person...

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Mikal Gilmore's Dream Dreams are manifestations of the subconscious, often related to events occurring in our conscience lives. Many times we address issues in our dreams that we will not or cannot address while awake. In the short story "My Brother, Gary Gilmore", Mikal Gilmore has a recurring d...

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All throughout society you have heard people refer to the controversy of Nature vs. Nurture and how they both affect what character a person becomes. Some say your character is determined by your heredity and upbringing, while others say it's by the environment in which you live. Although both a per...

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."...

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