I am lying in bed, eyes wide open, staring around the dark room, listening. The voices grow quiet, the television buzzing a few rooms down, but I can hear the shallow breaths and snores coming from the room with the television on.
I look over at my sister who is sleeping next to me, hogging all the blankets. I let her, though, because the blankets comfort her, along with the white rabbit she clings on to. I get up out of bed quietly, trying not to wake my sister, and especially not anybody else. I cross the room swiftly in my warm, fuzzy pajamas. Light floods from under the door, and for a second I think that I see a shadow move past, as if someone was walking by. I take a sharp breath in, frozen in place. A few moments pass by, when I realize
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The parents of these children will coax them into understanding that monsters are in fact, not real. They will even check the closets and lift the covers to peer under the bed. I never believed in these types of monsters – the ones that were big, green, slimy, monsters with many arms and a few rows of sharp teeth. No, I knew monsters were real, they just happened to be human. As I grew up, I realized how right I was about that, too. What is different, however, is that I am not scared of them. I know I am stronger than them. The monsters will try to tear me down because they feed off pain, but they cannot tear me down. There are monsters after me; one in particular.
My parents got divorced when I was little because my father is abusive verbally and physically. This is when we still lived in Denver. My mom got full custody of my sister and I because the case was strong enough and there was plenty of evidence of what he did. However, the court is not always practical and in favor of what is best for the children. It was ruled that he could have scheduled visits with us. And so we did. And it was
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I didn’t have a bed to sleep in when we did that, so I slept on a window seat, not always having a blanket to sleep with. When he did get a house, it was a rundown one in the middle of nowhere. They ended up tearing it down, too, because it wasn’t safe to live in.
A couple years later, my mom got the okay to get us out of Colorado, away from the monster. We moved to Orange City in the summer of 2004. But the abuse and visits didn’t stop. We had to talk to him on the phone every other day. The court also made us have scheduled visits, but they had to be supervised by his parents; we were not allowed to be alone with him. However, these rules weren’t always executed. Those visits were the longest and most terrifying days of my life.
The laws changed, and we only had to talk to him once a week. Every Sunday at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The rule still stands. And guess what, his abuse never stopped. Every week, my sister and I have to go through the same bullshit. He threatens us – tells us how awful our mother is, when I know for a fact she has to be the single-greatest mother out
The monster became very scary to the outside world even though his actions showed otherwise. This quote clearly depicts his innate need to help someone in trouble, as any normal human would do. The reader is able to place the monster into a very human situation of helping another person, but we soon see that the monster cannot overcome his appearance which carries the theme of misery and hopelessness. "I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport. She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream.
In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the main theme revolves around the internal and external consequences of being isolated from others. Being isolated from the world could result in a character losing his/her mental state and eventually causing harm to themselves or others. Because both Victor Frankenstein and the creature are isolated from family and society, they experienced depression, prejudice, and revenge.
Isolation is one of the major motifs that resonates throughout Frankenstein. Tying into the romantic style of the novel, Shelley uses this element all the way through the work to show a repetition of isolation, an aspect that is present in almost every character in the novel and expressed primarily in Victor and the monster. But even some other minor characters such as Justine, Caroline, and Walton deal with isolation in one way or another.
In the Analysis of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” I will compare the characters with their literary choices and reflect on how these choices influence and reflect their individual identities. The main character in “Frankenstein” is Victor Frankenstein the presumed “mad Scientist”. Victor spent his childhood reading about Cornelius Agrippa, a scientist who engaged on the occult and the supernatural. Victor’s childhood was regulated with studies and knowledge and the chance that he happened upon the works of Agrippa, lit a fire in his mind that intrigued him into Agrippa’s world. Agrippa studied the occult and the supernatural studies and his works were disclaimed by many as “sad trash”
Critic Northrop Frye says, “Tragic heroes tower as the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, the great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightning”. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein greatly exhibits the theme of the consequence of knowledge and irresponsibility among others through its tragic hero, Victor Frankenstein. Northrop Frye’s quote is certainly true when looking at Frankenstein’s situation. Victor is a victim of his divine lightning, and ultimately causes much trouble for himself; however, Victor also serves as the tragic hero in the lives of the monster, his family, and his friends.
He was not able to hold a job. In the 1970’s men were responsible for taking care of the financial accept of the home while women stayed home and took take care the kids, cleaning, cooking and laundry. Not that it is a bad thing that their stay at home dads these days because women are providing for the home. I feel that in my ex-husbands case he has a disease he needs to get help for in turn it made him a lazy man that stayed home. I was the financial provider. I went to work every day while he was at home. Over time My ex-husband became physically and mentally abusive. He was arrested thirty-five times. Every time he was arrested he was released because the cops would say, “ well ma'am you hit him back, if you press charges he can press charges and your kids would go into foster care.” I would take him back every time thinking he is going to change, this will never happen again. Unfortunately it got worse. I found myself last December in another domestic dispute with my ex-husband on December 23,2014 I finally left him. My family had no idea the nightmare I was living in behind closed doors. At, my last court date the DA came up to me and said to me “we are sorry we failed you and your family. We should have fought harder for
abusive to the point that it caused him to runaway from the only home he had. For
Disfigured, disgusting, despicable are words that we usually associate with monsters. We see monsters as something ghastly and deformed, but there are monsters in the world that are equally as monstrous internally. Victor Frankenstein and the monster in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, are characters that share an array of parallels with one another. The most enthralling parallel between these two characters is the fact that they are both monsters.
In gothic novels tragic figures are symbols of pain to the characters. Victor Frankenstein brings misfortune to his loved ones, which concludes to his overall tragedy. Ironically the monster in this novel is Frankenstein the creator not the creature. He has seven victims including himself and his fall is due to his ambition to be superior.
Throughout the novel of Frankenstein Mary Shelley places great emphasis on her character’s physical traits. She uses these descriptions to represent not just their personality but the way that Victor sees them. Their physical representations also play into the important subtext of how they make victor feel and the voids that he is trying to fill. Finally, those descriptions help tie into the important themes and motifs of the book that were staples of the romantic era.
My vision Frankenstein’s monster is it being about seven feet tall, with lanky arms and legs, it does not have a lot of muscle as it was created, it is all skin and bones. However, what makes the monster scary are all of the stitches where its joints and limbs are attached. They look like this, ≠, with red around them because of scarring, and the fact that the bones are dead and cannot join together naturally. His face looks almost alien-like, with a big forehead, big brown bug eyes; his nose is crooked almost as if it was broken. The lips are the biggest feature of the face, as they have stitches on them like the ones on his body, but they can move and speak as he pleases. His voice is deep and raspy, with a very commanding tone that intimidates
What do you imagine when the word “monster” is said? I imagine my attention being drawn to a purple body with gold scales that reflect the sunlight. But more noticeably is the monster’s gigantic head. It is very unproportional to the rest of its body. The first thing I notice on his head is the razor-edged teeth projecting from its mouth.
My parents were divorced so generally only saw him on Sundays. It seemed with him there was always ultimatums where if we didn't pick up our toys before we left he would throw them away, if we acted out in the store we would be spanked with the belt or yardstick when we got back to the house, if we were to do something he considered “stupid” he would smack us over the head. He often called us names and or “put us to work” while we were with him, it was never just going with him to spend time together, there always seemed to be something, some kind of work for us to do. I never felt respect towards my father, because he did not treat us well, but I have always respected my mom because she treated me right, even though there was consequences when I did something inappropriate, I was never afraid she would hurt me. The difference between fear and respect is really a fine grey line, but it can be obvious when you cross
Mary Shelley in her book Frankenstein addresses numerous themes relevant to the current trends in society during that period. However, the novel has received criticism from numerous authors. This paper discusses Walter Scott’s critical analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in his Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Review of Frankenstein (1818).
For the first three years of my life both my parents were still married and living together but soon after they got divorced and I was left with my mom. For the next eight years I lived with my mom after my dad moved out. I'm not going to turn my mom into a villain because I know she loved me. Mental illness plagues both