"A work of literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical reality... it must tell us more than we already know." - E. M. Forster. A work of literature gives you the factual base too what its talking about too give you a grasp of what's happening through the book, and lets know more than we already know. I think this interpretation is true in the book Ann- Frank because you don't know what all happened, but you have an idea on what's going on, but reading it will give you more to the story based on facts and things that actually happened to tell you more than you know.
The main character in the book Ann- Frank is a young Jewish girl living in Germany in the early 1900s. Ann Frank lived in with her two parent and a sister in Frankfurt, Germany. In Germany she is look down upon by the Nazi party because of her religion and this creates the main reasoning for her story. She was told on by a neighbor and the Nazis and they came too look for her. Ann was being hid away in a building by friends. based on that my these is correct because the book tells you real information that happened.
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Anne writes in a diary everyday about what happens during this dark time, and later it becomes published as The Diary of Anne Frank. Anne writes this not ever knowing how she will impact lives thru her writing and that's what makes this story. The things she goes thru day to day all went in her diary and it gives you a sense of what I was like living the life she did at her age. This help my thesis that a work of literature can provide factual accuracy, and give you more than you already
Although humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations, often the results can prove disastrous, even deadly. The tale of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, focuses on the outcome of one man 's idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of horrific creature. Victor Frankenstein was not doomed to failure from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge. Rather, it was his poor parenting of his progeny that lead to his creation 's thirst for the vindication of his unjust life. In his idealism, Victor is blinded, and so the creation accuses him for delivering him into a world where he could not ever be entirely received by the people who inhabit it. Not only failing to foresee his faulty idealism, nearing the end of the tale, he embarks upon a final journey, consciously choosing to pursue his creation in vengeance, while admitting he himself that it may result in his own doom. The creation of an unloved being and the quest for the elixir of life holds Victor Frankenstein more accountable for his own death than the creation himself.
Readers are able to actually picture how her life was and able to feel the emotions she portrayed at certain times. The only problem I think with this being an autobiography is that some parts of the novel may be a little biased based on her beliefs because these are based off of her beliefs. In my opinion, whoever is reading Anne’s book can either really enjoy it, or really despise it. This is a very controversial reading because it shows how the beliefs of many people can cause problems and can cause the death of many people. People that read it today can possibly still get offended by this reading, especially if they believe strongly the opposite of what Anne
“During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings. But now I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands.” (Shelley, 178) The Romantic Movement began in the 1970’s and ended in the 1850’s. One of the key ideas shared by Romantics was that a literal and metaphorical return to nature was necessary. They believed that the individual was the most important part of society. Romantics rejected the Scientific and Industrial Revolution. They believed that cities prevented individuals from discovering the sublime. Mary Shelley’s Romantic and Gothic novel, Frankenstein, opens with a series of letters from Robert Walton, an explorer, to his sister. Throughout these letters, Victor Frankenstein’s story is told. He was born into a wealthy family, and studies at a well-known school, where he develops an interest in biology. Eventually, Frankenstein is able to bring corpse back to life. He is horrified by his creation and abandons the monster. The monster eventually kills everyone that Frankenstein loves and in doing so, he also indirectly kills Victor. The monster then feels guilty and kills himself. Frankenstein reflects the Romantic views of Mary Shelly. There are many Romantic elements in Frankenstein. There is the evident dehumanization of the Industrial Revolution. Shelley also
A hero is someone who remains seen in literature as a person with great courage and strength, yet though not always the case. The hero usually takes risk for the greater good. The Romantic hero becomes a type of literary idol with different morals. They are passionate about what they love, becoming obsessed with their newfound passion and become determined to perfect at what they do. They eventually become tragically doomed through creating their own individual moral codes by struggling with their internal battles within their minds. Mary Shelley presents us the first persona of a romantic hero through Victor Frankenstein in her book Frankenstein. Shelley fabricates Victor as the main narrator throughout the
“The Diary of Anne Frank” is a great story that comes straight from the journal written by a young girl named Anne Frank. “The Diary of Anne Frank” has multiple themes demonstrated throughout the book. However, the most common theme is Good vs. Evil. For example, society during World War II was very much looked on as good vs. evil. You had the Germans, and you had the prisoners. The eight people hiding in the small annex from the Germans were also demonstrated as going through good and evil times. Finally, Anne is a young girl that just wants to have a normal life. Having that dream, but not being able to chase it has had a really
Frankenstein was a scientist who created a creature that was very scary through a lab experiment. Victor Frankenstein was an ambitious scientist whose experiment was aimed at creating human beings from the cells of a dead person. He, however, created a monster, which haunted him to his death. Frankenstein was very scared of the creature to the point of abandoning it, but it kept following him and ended up destroying him and his family out of anger. Frankenstein is a science fiction, which incorporated human curiosity and scientific knowledge. This discussion shall focus on the similarities between Frankenstein and the monster.
First though, her diary was considered dull and depressing due to the situation she was in, but it was reconsidered when it was published in America in 1952 (Anne Frank). In 1960, her home become a museum (The Story of). Anne had wanted to be a journalist or an author when she grew up (Anne Frank). It looks like her wishes had come true without her even knowing
The fabulous author Mary Shelley finished writing the book Frankenstein in May 1817 and officially published it in January of 1818. This book is science fiction. Some say it’s fiction because the monster is a robot-like human that someone created, but others say it’s non fiction because of the idea that the monster was made from artificial life or a re-animated dead body that someone created. Because this book was written in the 1800’s, it was a little challenging to read and fully understand at times because they talked a different, way back then, than we do now. In my opinion, this book is based off of what was happening in the author’s life around the time it was written. I think
between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. Despite their different outward appearances, Victor and the monster have many similar qualities. The major parallels between the creator and the creation include: hunger for knowledge, isolation, role as God, and the utilization of revenge.
In the Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the creature is an outcast in society, without a friend in the world is thrust away by humanity due to his appearance. His creator, Victor Frankenstein turns his back on the creature he created leaving him to his own devices to learn how to survive in the new world with no guidance from his creator. The creature devolves due to a series of events, feeling different emotions for the first time in his life, becoming helpless, discouraged leading into leading into retaliation of anger and violence. The author makes it clear his retaliation will not have a positive outcome.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a mishmash of stories within stories within a story, and several other texts are referenced within this amalgamation of literature. The intertextual links made in Frankenstein help to provide the reader with a greater insight into the mind of Mary Shelley and her most famous work. References to the text Paradise lost and Greek mythology in the development of characters adds depth to a tale of creation and destruction, causing the questions Shelley asks about humanity to resonate far more poignantly with the reader.
Many authors give their characters a particular motive in their novels. The knowledge of the personality and background of a creative author has a direct and crippling effect on the creature in the novel, as the author struggles to reconcile his or her own perception of himself or herself, while simultaneously attempting to satisfy his or her maddening desire for divine approval and acceptance. Throughout the novel Frankenstein, it is apparent that the two main characters, Victor Frankenstein and the monster created by this man, share the parallel obsession of revenge. In Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley asserts that the feeling of loneliness causes those characters who are affected by such a feeling of loneliness to seek revenge, as evidenced by each of the creature’s murder of William, Victor’s destruction of the female monster, and the subsequent death of Victor.
“Who is the true antagonist” is a question that a reader may mull upon during the reading of certain novels. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, although thought to be a victim, is in fact the villain of the novel Frankenstein. The plot of the novel consists of Victor Frankenstein causing tragedies and deaths as a result of his irresponsibility and yearning for fame. Victor also creates an antagonizing creature that has absolutely no knowledge of the basic ways of life and leaves him companionless. This, ultimately, catalyzes the monster’s hard, corrupt life.
Have you ever read a diary about a German girl who was a victim of the Holocaust? Anne Frank is that girl who wrote that diary. Annelies Marie Frank came about the world on June 12, 1929. Her parents; Otto and Edith Frank. She had a sister named Margot, who had been deported to supposedly a labor camp. When Anne started to write in her diary(at the age of 13), she was stuck in this secret annex because of the war. Furthermore, Anne died at a very young age and did not have an adult life. At the age of 15, she died at the Bergen-Belsen camp. Finally, a big accomplishment Anne had, was that she wrote a diary that is now one of the most widely read diaries in the world. The diary is originally written in Dutch, but now it is translated into
The novel Frankenstein, authored by Mary Shelley, begins with the introduction of explorer Robert Walton and his series of letters, to his sister Margaret Saville. Walton is the captain of a ship en route on a treacherous expedition to the North Pole. He composes a multitude of letters, particularly one where he informs Margaret that the ship is immovable and surrounded by ice. Walton reports sighting an enormous man-like creature being pulled by a dog sled, as he is looking out into the icy distance. A short time after, they made a rescue of a man, afloat a slab of ice, and in dreadful health. After a week of revival, the man was able to talk and share his story with Walton. This man was Victor Frankenstein.