Memory In Frankenstein

Before reading the third chapter of “The Forest and the Trees”, I remember learning in the second chapter about symbolism, ideology and the construction of life in different cultures and societies around the world. For example, something interesting I remember learning was how every social system has a culture, consisting primarily of symbols (including words), ideas and practices. I believe this also connects and refers to how we tend to build our own sense of reality through the words and ideas that we use to mean something and people may use to name interpret what they experience and how cultures consist of symbols of ideas or words being portrayed. Based on what I read in the second chapter and the title of the third chapter, “The Structures

From the beginning of the poem, the speaker tells of his naïve, consuming world of blackberries. Because the

In the book, Ffrankenstein, I would diagnose Vvictor with Depression and Anxiety. “Difficulty sleeping or excessive sleeping” are symptoms of depression (Ford-Martin & Odle ). Shelley wrote, “Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit,for i had committed deeds of misschief beyond description horrible, and more,much more (i persuaded myself) was yet behind” (77). By reading the article about depression and the book i said he has depression because he can't sleep very well. Feelings of worthlessness or guilt are also symptoms of depression. (Ford-Martin & Odle ). “The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove,” (Shelley 77). The article also said feeling worthless and guilt

In the beginning of the story Lizbeth says, “When I think of the home of my youth, all I seem to remember is dust…”(Collier 1). This quote is a evidence of how Lizbeth is using flashback to start the story. She is going back to her youth life and starts to remember everything. After that she is having some memories that make her feel something. “Whenever the memory of those marigolds flashes across my mind, a strange nostalgia comes with it and remains long after the pictures has fared”(Collier 2). In this quote she is having memories of the marigolds and I think she feels nostalgia because of the incident that happened back then. Although in some of the parts of her story you

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster, but wisdom is knowing that he in fact becomes the monster. Inside all of us there is darkness, light, and the potential to become what we all fear: a monster. It is the choice to not give in to our inner demons that keeps us human. The biggest demon that some hold is the desire to make a human, but not through reproduction, thus taking the power of life and death out of the universe’s hands. Worse than that though, is taking life and death out of the universe and then abandoning your creation, much like abandoning a child.

Items for sale at the confectionery, in addition to those listed in the centennial narrative, included over-the-counter medical and veterinary supplies, toiletries, greeting cards, knick-knacks, and holiday specific novelties. Besides attending Bill’s fireworks display on Independence Day, patrons purchased rockets, firecrackers, caps, and sparklers to enliven their family or neighborhood festivities.11 Even though Bill and Clara offered an extensive variety of merchandise, the physical size of the store placed limits on the selection.

Memories can in a way define who we are and how we progress through life. Memories can be a pathway to either follow the straight and narrow or to have us decide which fork of the road to take. Past memories can help to identify a person and can effect the future that follows. Through the journy of self discovery, Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow and Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory suggest one must relive past and present memories to find their true identity in the future.

In “Marigolds” a young girl is growing up during the Great Depression. For Lizabeth, the narrator, everyday is a challenge. As she transitions from an innocent, naive child to an aware, yet unsure young woman, the smooth road she’s been traveling on suddenly becomes bumpy and unfamiliar when a fit of anger taken out on her neighbor marks Lizabeth’s growing up. “All the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst- the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once…”, (Collier, “Marigolds”). All of the emotions that Lizabeth has been holding in spill out of her in an audacious, violent action that will exile her childhood; the destroying of Miss Lottie’s prized marigolds.When Lizabeth realizes with remorse what she’s done, she gains the heavy burden of adulthood. “In that humiliating moment I

In the book, The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees, by Dr. David P. Crandall, the Himba's world structure is manifested through detailed information of their ideals and their social world, where the reader can truly see their lives. These ideals and cultural background that the Himba have explain and define their families and marriages, structure of government and politics, religion and spiritual life, and their place in the social structure. Himba just like any societies have expectations and social norms that they are used to. The author uses individuals and their actions to describe the collective imaginary world that the Himba live and are accustomed to. The ideals and beliefs of the Himba, relating to their

Set at the dawn of the Reconstruction period, a time of supposed national renewal and modernization, Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars exposes the reality of an utterly medieval post Civil War South. Chesnutt explores the role of race in shaping one’s true identity through the experiences of two bi-racial siblings, John and Rena Walden, as they transcend the biological color barrier. Inspired by her older brother 's decade of splendid success living as an apparently pure white man, an existence free of all the restrictions she encounters as a bi-racial individual, Rena agrees to abandon and reject her black identity with devastating consequences. A largely didactic novel, driven by Chesnutt’s motivation to explore the nuances of racial identity in an era in which racial identity was presumed to be a biological certainty, Rena’s character and the devastating conflicts she faces are his vehicle to portray his own deeply personal journey of self identification. The House Behind the Cedars serves as a metaphor for Chesnutt’s own life and the internal struggles he faced as a biracial individual.

Once dinner is over, the table cleared and food put away, my husband and our sons trade our hard chairs at the table for more comfortable seating. It's tradition. We'll continue chatting about the day's activities and talk about tomorrow's plans while digesting our food and relaxing. It's a cozy setting with the wood stove, the view out of cabin's windows and our two cats who wouldn't miss being part of this family time. Every night the cats sprawl out on the area rug, enjoying being with the family. They wouldn't miss it for the world.

In most of Cherry’s poems, particularly “Alzheimer’s” lines 15-22, she sometimes reveals her most impressive passages in order to portray her life: the very being of her existence (Clabough 3). She seems to do this in most of her works so that all the thoughts and feelings of the story can be felt by those reading the works without ever having to experience the situation. In addition, she is adamant her works can and will utilize autobiographical materials to create artistic and philosophical truths on the same level as presented in “Alzheimer’s” (Chappell 257). She speaks of this autobiographical information in a commentary regarding her father’s early life, her parent’s love for music, her childhood, and her father’s diagnosis of a disease that steals his identity. Stating that hearing the diagnosis was like hearing the screeching of violin strings at her first lesson (Cherry). The first glimpse of using this type of information in an artistic form is in lines 19-22 when she vividly draws a picture of her father in his younger years. He remembers how he looked, what he wore and that his favorite pastime was music. It is also clear he remembers his home in all of its glory but not those that lived there with him.

The past is constantly mentioned by the characters in this play. Even the cherry orchard as property, is a symbol of the Old Russian regime. The end of the Old Regime therefore, is portrayed by Chekhov when at the end of the play Lohpakin becomes the owner of the estate and cuts the cherry orchard. Chekhov, as a contemporary observer, uses his play to criticize some aspects of the emancipation of 1861. The message he leaves is that although the emancipation was an important step towards freedom, it was not the only one to be made. This message, besides being given throughout the novel, is also stated by Trofimov, an idealist student who realizes how far Russia is from achieving real freedom. At the end of Act 2, Trofivom tells Anya, Madame Ranevskaya’s 17-year-old daughter: “...In order to start living in the present, we first have to redeem our past, make an end of it, and we can only do that through suffering…” .

The cherry orchard has a symbolic meaning toward Liubóv Andréyevna as she correlates it to her sentimental memories of the past and her childhood. She states, “Oh, my childhood! My innocence! I slept in this room, I could look out over the orchard, when I woke up in the morning I was happy, and it all looked exactly the same as this…” (659). Liubóv Andréyevna’s past experiences as she becomes who she is now, is unique to her. She experienced losing her husband due to his alcoholic addiction, having an affair with another man, and having her son lost from her life. Because of her past memories, she attempts to escape her reality by going off to France for five years. However, she arrives back into reality, where the cherry orchard makes her

The 2 sources provide valuable insights highlighting different changes to the life of the English population post Norman conquest. The first, Source 8, is an extract from the Domesday book, which had the soul purpose of providing William with the information on the wealth of his subjects and country. It compares the taxation the people of Herefordshire owed King Edward to the taxation the people owed King William. Source 12 was written by the monks of Peterborough forming part of the Kings obituary and is unusually forthright in the unfavourable views the monks had for their recently deceased king.