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    In writing, there are several ways to disclose the information about the story and the character instead of listing it out. The familiar way is through events and dialogue, but Mary Shelly also uses the setting of each situation to do this. Settings like town to city , the weather like the terrible storm that takes place continuously and the inspirational nature in the novel, Frankenstein. By using these methods the story seems more intense and stays in the reader’s mind. Mary Shelly's comprehensive

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    One of the characters from the book “The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963” by Christopher Paul Curtis, is Bumphead, who is Byron’s best friend and fellow juvenile delinquent. One of his traits is bully, he bully many kids including his own brother. He bullies them either for their appearance or just for the fun of it. Bumphead bully Rufus for the way he dresses because Rufus doesn’t have much clothes. An example of his bully is when Bumphead put butter on Byron’s head, this caused Byron’s dad to cut

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    Since Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is written as a piece of Gothic Fiction, this could create the illusion that the themes of fear, death, and horror point towards a widespread criticism of human nature and life. However this is not the case. In many instances, Shelley's work serves the purpose of comparing and evaluating to what extent her respective protagonists interact with the various temptations that define her novel. This varied assessment should be considered a critique, as it provides

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    of the authors referenced include: Thoreau, Immanuel Kant, Gertrude Stein, Nietzche, Lord Byron, Wordsworth, and Emerson. One reference, in particular, serves as an excellent example of how Edmundson’s references are successful in getting his point across. He compares youth to the contrasting Byron and Wordsworth, Byron to how his students are today, and Wordsworth to how it ought to be. He states that Byron “wished to never be bored,” as does today’s youth (Edmundson 11). Edmundson also mentions

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    Words such as "daemonical corpse", "wretch" and "miserable monster" which Mary Shelley had used to describe the monster at this point portray an evil and malevolent monster. After the being has murdered Frankenstein's brother William, he is again presented as the evil malevolent monster by the words Mary Shelley chose for Frankenstein to use in his description of the 'wretch' he saw before him; "more hideous than belongs to humanity", "it was the wretch, the filthy daemon"

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    Use of Irony to Portray Morality in Lord Byron's Don Juan In Don Juan, George Gordon, Lord Byron, diverges from his name-sake characterization with an un-Byronic hero, Don Juan. The poem has been viewed as nihilistic and immoral. Actually there is plenty present in the first canto to show morality and hope for humanity. The poem should be viewed as the author intended: "a satire on abuses of the present state of Society, an not an eulogy on vice..." (Bostetter 9). Don Juan is a satire and therefore

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    Frankenstein deals with two main social concerns, the level of moral responsibility that a creator possesses in relation to his creation, as well as the issue of the moral boundaries that exists in one's quest for knowledge, including the fine line between good and bad knowledge, The novel also deals with two main human concerns, which include a person's goals or aspirations as well as the issue of pride and its affect on a person. Mary Shelley highlights the issue of moral responsibility by

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    She Walks in Beauty

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    freelance writer and editor, further explains that “Byron overturns the reader’s expectations by associating beauty with darkness rather than light and also by showing how light and darkness merge to create a perfect harmony” (Kukathas 279). However, it is the object of beauty Byron is describing, as well as why, that receives debate. In Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty,” there is controversy around who or what the beauty is, and the depth in which Byron

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    Mary Shelley exemplifies the Romanticism ideas of the love and reverence for nature in the excerpt from her novel, Frankenstein. The narrator of the excerpt, Victor Frankenstein, employs naturalistic imagery, abstract diction, and cumulative sentences to convey his attitude that nature is rejuvenating and restoring. The narrator utilizes naturalistic imagery to illustrate his attitude towards nature. As Frankenstein is travelling through the mountains he describes the scene around him. He describes

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    Shelly In Frankenstein

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    APPREANCE1 Understanding the physical appearance of Frankenstein from Shelly’s novel a few notable things that makes the creature essential in being the monster is how it looks. Shelly’s description of the creature is that of one who is assembled from dead body parts put together in making up a sole person or individual. In Frankenstein (1931) it is seen that Henry Frankenstein searches graveyards and assembles from numerous corpses his creation before bringing it to life. It can be said that James

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