Victor Salva

The Rites of Passage and Liminality Originally developed by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep in the early 20th century in his book Rites de Passage, the term liminality refers to the concept in which participants are in the threshold stage of disorientation and suspension from the previous social norm that they were used to. When an individual goes through a rite of passage—also coined by van Gennep—he is cut off from his “old life” and is born again into a new person. However, before he can fully

The Controversial Views in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Kate Chopin's The Awakening is truly a novel that stands out from the rest. From the moment it was published, it has been caused women to examine their beliefs. The fact that The Awakening was shunned when first published, yet now taught in classrooms across the country is proof that The Awakening is full of rebellious and controversial ideas. One of the main themes explored in The Awakening is that of a woman's

In Conrad Philip Kottak’s “Rite of Passage” he mentions the three stages of a rite of passage. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep defines these stages as Separation, Margin, and Aggregation. Victor Turner, another anthropologist, focused on Margin, which he referred to as liminality. Not only can a rite of passage be an individual experience, but it can also be a communal experience which Turner called “communitas.” Many of us experience this “communitas” in different ways such as my Hispanic culture

Although some critics view Victor Frankenstein as a Tragic Hero because of his one essential flaw, his overambitious desire to discover what cannot be known, he is truly a Byronic Hero by definition. Although Victor is of a higher social class than the average person and his essential flaw triumphs all of his others, he has a deeply troubled past, struggles with integrity, secludes himself away from society, and is a willful individual who seeks redemption by carving out his own path. Victor’s many

Have you ever felt responsible for something that has happened to your family? Like you had a chance to do something about it but you chose not to? This is a common thought as many people tend to blame themselves for something that they no hand in creating, without reason. This is not the case in both William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In both of these pieces of literature the protagonists rightfully blame themselves for what happens to some of their family members as they

Head Transplants and Frankenstein There is currently a big debate over the idea of head transplanting that came into discussion a month ago on whether it is ethical enough to perform or not. Lots of opinionated people have tied this procedure to Mary Shelley’s famous novel Frankenstein since it deals with trying to bring someone to life after having parts of them stop working. Throughout this paper, the topics to be discussed are: what is a head transplant, what are some debates going on with it

Biographical Information about the author: Mary Shelley was born in 1797 to an early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and a writer William Godwin. She married Percy Shelley who was already married at the time to her cousin. Percy went through many hardships, as his former wife committed suicide, his custody battle, the death of their two children, miscarriages, and his death at an early age. The difficult situations in her life influenced her writing. She then later died at the age of 54 in 1851 while

happened at the end of the Frankenstein story. The creature says “Onto the ice, where I shall build my funeral pyre. I shall rejoice in the torturing flames, and my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. Farewell, Captain and farewell to you, Victor Frankenstein. Doomed as you were, my agony was still greater than yours.” He gets onto that ice that sparkles like shattered diamonds in the night sky. He says that he will burst into flames because the sun is a fiery ball of fire, but the chill of

paid the price. Victor Frankenstein learns of the world of science and life and begins a test that will make a body come to life. Victor achieves this and makes a horrible monster that kills and hurts others. Dr. Frankenstein's Monster is the archetypal monster because of his horrific look, his violent actions against and dislike of humans. The monster that Victor brought to life was truly amazing. But at cost, the monster had a horrific look that brought fear into others. Victor stated, “I nearly

revenge. At first, Frankenstein and the Creature’s freedom seem to be “bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of [them]” (102). In reality, even the “annihilation” of Victor, who neglected and betrayed the Creature, doesn’t “satisfy [the Creature’s] own desires” (224). Furthermore, the death of Victor doesn’t provide the Creature with any more freedom