Patrick Süskind

fish market, at birth, by his mother while the monster is created with “spare parts” by his creator, Victor Frankenstein. I will attempt to define the lessons Mary Shelly may have wanted us to take from the story of Frankenstein and those that Patrick Suskind offered in Perfume. 2Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the character in Perfume, is a man born with no natural smell and sets out on a journey to capture the scent of life. A scent unrivaled by any other human. Grenouille’s journey truly begins as

According to Foucault, power does not belong to the individual, but to the system, to the institution. In his essay on Discipline and Punish, Foucault presents his idea of the panopticon mechanism, a mechanism in which visibility is a trap. With little importance over the actual individual in the role of the observer or of the observed, the object of the system is total power over the observed. Due to the unique shape of the panopticon, there are no corners and thus no blind spots for the observed

“It was precisely this process of getting the fragrant essence out of things with fire, water, steam and an invented apparatus.” - Patrick Süskind one of the most famous distillers of all times. The distillation process allows the most volatile substances such as alcohol and water evaporate at the temperature of about 79 degrees celsius (as a mixture) and be separated from the rest of the

Lord of the Flies Civilized thoughts and morals are the outcome of a highly complex neural circuit producing chemicals such as serotonin located in the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, the parietal lobe and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex of the brain (Morality Work in the Brain). The mix of adrenaline and the inaccurate quantity of serotonin influences the respectable opinions of humans into vile feelings and actions (The Moral Brain). In agonizing and traumatic situations, the behavioral

perfume the story of a murderer by patrick suskind is a story of grenouille who was born in the early eighteenth century behind fish stalls to a fishwife who abandoned him at birth. he cries out from behind the stall and is saved by bystanders.His mother is executed for her attempt at killing him.he was taken care of by wet nurses who all returned him saying that he was too greedy for milk and that he had no smell like that of a normal baby and so was the devil. father terrier ridicules this idea

The Adverse Effects of Obsession: Solid Object by Virginia Woolf The Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf similarly encapsulates the prevailing modernist conception of the impulse to collect, and the author conveys her strong disapproval of the protagonist, John’s collection by describing the negative effects. Implies by Woolf, John raises the lump of glass to the light and holds it “so that its irregular mass blotted out the body and extended right arm of his friend” (11), prefiguring the way in which