I'll come back every night now, I think, and every night I'll come a little closer to your bed ... and a little closer ... until one night, before you can scream for them, you'll hear something growling, something growling right beside you, Tad, it'll be me, and I'll pounce, and then I'll eat you and you'll be in me. ... At last, a four year old boy has a monster in his closet who is threatening to haunt him every night and a mother who is going to fight for her and her son's life against the creature. ...

• Word Count: 1770
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• Grade Level: High School

As a result of this, he stops stealing food from them at night because he "found that in doing this [he] inflicted pain on the cottagers" (106). ... Late at night, the creature would take the boy's tools and collect great amounts of wood for the family. ... When the night approaches, the creature lit the deserted cottage on fire. ...

• Word Count: 2191
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For example, if he had told Elizabeth about the threat made by the monster for their wedding night, she might not have been killed. ... He's constantly looking over his shoulder to see if he is being followed, and to top it all off, the creature travels at night. ... When the creature tells Frankenstein, ""I will be with you on your wedding night'"(p. 163), Victor hears it repeating over and over in his head. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Likewise his health deteriorates: "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree" (Shelley 34). ... The monster is outraged and threatens the doctor: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night: (Shelley 123). Intimidated by the words, Victor leaves his wife on the night of the wedding, in hopes of saving her. ...

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The Monster tries to convince Victor to create a female counterpart for him, but when Victor destroys the female the Monster swears revenge against Victor, promising to be with him on his wedding night. ... After Victor is acquitted, he marries Elizabeth and on their wedding night the Monster murders Elizabeth, fulfilling his promise that he would be with Victor and Elizabeth on their wedding night. ...

• Word Count: 1525
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Late one night Victor begins to create the ultimate being/monster that would soon overcome his life and ruin anything that he had ever loved or cared about. ... Finally one cold and dreary night the monster comes alive and in that instant Victor's life is forever changed. ... The destruction of the monster's woman enrages the monster and he curses Victor to be ware on his wedding night. ...

• Word Count: 1262
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• Grade Level: High School

I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night" (152). ... Therefore, the monster vows that he will be with Frankenstein on his wedding-night. Then, of course, the monster appears on Frankenstein's wedding-night. ...

• Word Count: 1921
• Approx Pages: 8
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The creature full of rage declares his revenge: "I shall be with you on your wedding night" (161). The creature foreshadows the events that occur on Victors wedding night. ... On his wedding night, Victor hears a "shrill and dreadful scream" (168). ...

• Word Count: 1757
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• Grade Level: High School

I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night " (152). ... Therefore, the monster vows that he will be with Frankenstein on his wedding-night. Then, of course, the monster appears on Frankenstein's wedding-night. ...

• Word Count: 1922
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• Has Bibliography

Victor obsesses over the fact that the monster will attack Victor himself instead of Elizabeth, on his wedding night as he believes "the daemon [would] employ every art to destroy me". ... However, on his wedding night, upon hearing Elizabeth scream he says "the whole truth rushed into my mind". ...

• Word Count: 1758
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shelley incorporates Gothic elements in her writing when Victor explains that no one could "conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air" (Shelley 50). ...

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Frankenstein was so obsessed in finding the cause of generation of life that he did not care for anything else, whether it was cold or hot or even night or day "darkness had no effect upon my fancy- (Chapter 4). ...

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Throughout life one comes to realize that playing the role of God has horrible results. Victor Frankenstein is a young man in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and plays the role of God throughout the entire book. Victor had a relatively good childhood, which can cause one to wonder why he became th...

• Word Count: 1508
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The wretch grew determined to win the De Lacey's affection and friendship, "During the night, I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days." (137) The family's reaction to these good deeds made him, "long to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures." (140) Soon, after watching them and learning the family's history, the wretch decided to approach the blind, old man one-day when the family was out of the house. ...

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The pursuit of knowledge leads to despair and corruption in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. He suffers because of his creation that eventually destroys life. As I have read through the novel, the creature begins to change as he gains knowledge. The creature at the start is inn...

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Morality is a topic that has been debated throughout all time. Questions are asked about its origin, its definition, and its purpose. In Frankenstein, morality is a topic that is discussed in the characters actions and thoughts. The creature is one character that has morality issues and they can be ...

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Even when the Monster threatens him with the words, "I shall be with you on your wedding-night," Victor's tendency to be self-centered comes across because he continues to think of it only as directed against his own life; he even looks forward with something like complacency to sacrificing himself for his bride. ...

• Word Count: 1964
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Frankenstein has the most precious and most lacking spirit that the later science fiction works barely have, the reflections on scientism. The merit which made it a classic book is its astonishing ability to predict. The vision it has is way beyond its era; it is adept to penetrate the insights on s...

• Word Count: 1916
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Whenever two novels were written in different time periods, many differences can be found between these novels. They may have been written in different styles for different classes of readers. Viewpoints and beliefs change with time, and the writing styles in these novels reflect this evolution. ...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Grade Level: High School

Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, is a modern Titan Prometheus of Greek mythology in his desire to overcome man's limitations and gain God-like power. The full title of Shelly's novel and the influence of the myth of Prometheus Bound may be noted. For the romantics Prometheus be...

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Frankenstein's theme was based on a question discussed the night of June 22 "whether or not the principle of life could be discovered and whether scientists could galvanize a corpse of manufactured humanoid" (Woodbridge Summer of 1816). ...

• Word Count: 1927
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GCSE Prose Coursework: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein At the time Shelley was writing her novel, "Frankenstein", the world was discovering things daily, so her writings were relevant and justified at that time. Many scientists and explorers of the nineteenth century were conquering new ideas and dis...

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