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1. Poor Things V. Frankenstein
Andrew Klush
Eng 101H
Mr. Panza
Essay on Monstrosity
Mary Shelley made her reputation of being one of the best Romantic authors on the basis of just one
book. The notoriety that came with being the daughter of two famous authors helped, as did her age
at the time of conceiving the book, but Frankenstein was the only one of her stories to achieve any
fame. The level of fame it achieved, however, was astounding. In fact, even though it was originally
published in 1818, Alasdair Gray still saw fit to use Frankenstein as his primary inspiration for Poor
Things in 1992. The Gothic Romantic nature of both of these books is well known, but the
monstrosity contained within them is an interesting topic to examine.
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The story grows from this inception to the somewhat vague description of Victor 's creation. Shelley,
through Victor, through Walton, explains the manner in which Victor prowled graveyards and such
to compile body parts, much like Shelley used disjointed segments of individual observations to
compile her story. Then, she delves into a birth. The animation of his project scares Victor so much,
that he immediately abandons the creation, only to later see the monster in his room, reaching for
Victor with a grin. Victor ‘escapes, ' abandons his child again. The lack of parenting and guidance
is remarkable, no doubt inspired by Mary 's own situation at the time. Then, as Victor wanders
aimlessly, he encounters his childhood best friend, Clerval. Clerval is one of the truly honest
characters in the book, though he also has problems with his father. He is Victor 's true friend, one
who will love him regardless, though Victor is monstrous enough to miss that fact, and tells Clerval
nothing of his creation.
Shelley then introduces us to Justine Moritz, a maid at the Frankenstein 's home, who was
mistreated by her mother before coming to work for them. Her love for the Frankenstein family is
deep and pure. This is why it is such a shock to find out that she is the primary suspect in the murder
of Victor 's younger brother. The boy was strangled; a sign of rage and power issues, and a locket
containing his mothers picture was stolen.
Shelley keeps her
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3. Identity in Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans Essay
Identity in Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans
Throughout her career, Gertrude Stein was fascinated by the possibility of revolution in the sense of
"a complete or drastic change," especially in relation to her ideas of identity and agency. But critics
disagree about her conclusions. For example, Bruce Goebel sees her early texts as "embrac[ing a]
deterministic attitude about the formation of identity" (238) that conceives of identity as locked
within historical and biological contexts. At the other extreme, many critics such as Caren Kaplan
locate Stein's work within the context of expatriate modernism and so see it within the discourses
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(11)
In The Use of Pleasure, the second volume of The History of Sexuality, Foucault emphasizes the
possibilities for "change" and agency in his definition of "the arts of existence":
I am referring to what might be called the 'arts of existence.' What I mean by the phrase are those
intentional and voluntary actions by which men not only set themselves rules of conduct, but also
seek to transform themselves, to change themselves in their singular being, to make their life into an
oeuvre that carries certain aesthetic values and meets certain stylistic criteria. (10–11)
Stein, too, is interested in her characters' abilities to "transform themselves" in The Making of
Americans. She describes Henry Dehning who in the process of growing up "had made everything
for himself very different" so that he can no longer imagine his prior self:
And it is strange how all forget when they have once made things for themselves to be very
different. A man like Dehning never can feel it real to himself, things as they were in his early
manhood, now that he has made his life and habits and his feelings all so different. He says it often,
as we all do childhood and old age and pain and sleeping, but it can never anymore be really present
to his feeling. (7)
This transformation, as with others in the novel, carries with it a sense of loss and of the
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5. James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and...
James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and Flann O'Brien's 'At Swim–Two–Birds'
and Modernist Writing
The Twentieth Century found literature with a considerably different attitude and frame–of–mind
than had the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Two hundred years is, of course, a long time to
allow change within genres, but after the fairly gradual progression of the novel as a form, its
change in the hands of modernism happened rapidly in comparison. Explaining how texts within the
framework of modernist writing are "different" require laying out from what they are different, how,
and why. A direct cause of, and coinciding with, literature's abruptly changing face was the
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Two of the writers who embraced and propelled this change, James Joyce and Flann O'Brien, while
enjoying totally different popularities and successes with their work, provided two of the most
extreme examples of this break from realism. At Swim–Two–Birds and A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man both in their own ways and to varying degrees, skillfully use a combination of
techniques to become two books that are decidedly self–referential through their commentaries upon
art and literature.
Important to this idea of the self–referential novel is the drawing upon tradition–literary and
cultural. Both Joyce and O'Brien relied on fictional conventions to build their stories, even if at
times that reliance came about simply in order to turn over those conventions and create something
entirely new. This is not to say either Joyce or O'Brien wholly rejected the concepts of the realist
novel, but rather they changed the way that that reality was rendered. In many ways both novels are
just as "real" as any realist novel; they simply present a different view of that reality, or a more true–
to–life way of depicting it. Gone is the omniscient narrator, gone is the linear plot. In their place are
highly stylistic and conscientiously built stories driven not necessarily by the world around the
characters, but by the characters themselves. Rather than characters interacting with what the world
has to give to
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7. Essay about A Postmodern Take on a Hollywood Film Classic
A Postmodern Take on a Hollywood Film Classic
The jacket blurb on Robert Coover's creative compilation A Night at the Movies reads: "From
Hollywood B–movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what 'might have
happened' in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance–men,
Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering
lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader. As Coover's Program announces,
you will get Coming Attractions, The Weekly Serial, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, and more, but
turned upside–down and inside–out." It is perhaps more appropriate to call Coover's work a creative
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A Night at the Movies presents examples of those constructed realities, the realities of films that we
are already familiar with, and then alters them.
Additionally, the creative and almost playful way in which Coover transports different story lines
across entertainment media lines–– from film to literature–– is an inventive technique of
postmodern literature. The tendency of postmodern art to be self–referential is clearly at work in
Coover's compilation. He has created a work of art, based on art. His art of literature is derived from
the art of film; in fact, A Night at the Movies can be read and interpreted in such a way that the
viewer may actually feel as if she were spending the night at the movies.
As opposed to including a table of contents, A Night at the Movies begins with a program, outlining
the order of the progression of the read, or the night. The book begins with previews of coming
attractions, includes an installment of the current weekly serial, features an adventure, comedy and
romance "film", does not fail to include a cartoon for the kiddies, and even has an intermission. The
linear structure is in no
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9. The Four Major Clusters Of Depressive Symptoms And Explain...
CRJ 451: Module 1 Homework Anthony Bradshaw Anthony D. Bradshaw 12 May 2015 CRJ 451:
Module 1 Homework PART I Outline the four major clusters of depressive symptoms and explain
each one in detail: Emotional; Cognitive; Motivational; Somatic. There are four noteworthy groups
of depressive indications; emotional, cognitive, motivational and somatic.. Each of these bunches of
depressive manifestations sway both conditionally and autonomously upon the discouraged person.
Actually, as one arrangement of bunches starts to influence the individual another effects and
fortifies the depressive impact (Dahlgren, 2008). Emotional Symptoms –Sadness is the most
obvious and broad Emotional Symptoms in misery. Discouraged individuals may even eloquent
their dejection by such proclamations as "I feel dismal." This enthusiastic side effect is felt more
regrettable in the morning for the most part because of not having possessed the capacity to rest.
Emotions of nervousness are likewise present alongside a loss of delight and loss of interest
(Dahlgren, 2008). Cognitive Symptoms –The term cognitive alludes to the mental methodology
described by knowing, considering, learning and judging. An individual sees or fathoms by a
scholarly process. The discouraged individual thinks or sees of him or herself in an extremely
negative manner. Their future is seen with misery (Dahlgren, 2008). The individual may feel that
they have fizzled somehow or that they are the reason for their own
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11. Essay on Something about Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien's At Swim–Two–Birds is a multifarious work of purpose, at once an experimental
narrative that directly responds to James Joyce's modernist work (acting as a forerunner of post–
modernist thought), and a study on the tortuous challenges facing the dichotomies of Irish culture.
At Swim is at its most understated, a text of parodies. O'Brien expertly strings together the many
layers of his novel's world to express a slew of critical observations about modernist ideology and
realism, as well as exposing a necessary dialogue on the formation and perception of Irish culture.
A third major aspect of At Swim–Two–Birds lies closer to O'Brien's own life experience: this is a
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O'Brien investigates the clash of ideologies carefully, having found himself in a unique position
which assisted in the observation of both sides. It is significant, McKullen writes, that "Flann
O'Brien who was born into that first, critical and cosmopolitan, post–independence generation was
also paradoxically more familiar with Irish traditions than many of the Revivalists who embraced
them or the Modernists that rejected them (McKullen, 76)." O'Brien, born "Brian O'Nuallain," was
the son of ardent Irish nationalists; he spoke the Irish language at home, vacationed in the Gaeltacht
(that is, the fringe of Western Ireland where Irish is predominantly spoken), and studied old and
middle Irish in college. As for his own feelings on the subject, while At Swim–Two–Birds includes a
myriad of old Irish folktale and mythology, it also points to a dissatisfaction with the Cultural
Protectionism that was prevalent all around him. According to Dr. Joseph Brooker who writes on the
subject, "in his own way, [O'Brien] was one of the period's most penetrating critics of Irish pride
(Brooker, 31)." Viewing the over–determination of Cultural Protectionism, O'Brien could see the
silliness of glorifying what must have essentially become caricatures of the Irish heritage. Irish
scholar Eihblin Evans adds that, "for O'Brien, Irish identity had been hijacked by a set of official
cliches with disastrous effects (Evans, 104)." At Swim–Two–Birds
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13. Memories of the Atomic Bomb Shown in "Children Are Game"...
Ask any two people if they remember where they were on 9/11 and you will receive a stunningly
detailed description. However, if you ask those same two people for a detailed account of what
happened that day you would receive two vastly different stories. Why is that? Well, memory is a
very subjective thing. Public memory is subject to even more hazy recollections. Scholars, witness,
and government officials all have different versions about the details. Often times it is artists who
bring together these accounts by creating work which encourages public discussion. Two such artists
are Isabelle Gardner, writer of the poem "Children Are Game " and Andy Warhol, painter of
"Atomic Bomb". These two artists contribute to the collective memory of ... Show more content on
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One could argue these children and the public memory of the bombs are similar. People knew the
bomb was deadly, but continued to support the development of more bombs in the same way the
children must have known what they were doing was dangerous, but they too continued risk their
lives regardless of the warnings they must have received from their parents. Both the children and
the people of the times are exhibiting purposeful forgetfulness. They both refuse to acknowledge
what they are doing could be dangerous and have created a powerful trap for themselves. Gardner
writes "bombs can blossom in any season" and people stuck in these delusions about the bomb not
being a tremendous threat to humanity will be unprepared to deal with other of life's unpleasant
realities. (Line 14) According to poet critic Ralph Mills, Gardener was most known for her ability to
showcase "The hidden fears and hesitancies we nourish in ourselves in a twisted effort to avoid
encounters with the multifarious realities of the universe we inhabit" (191). Her metaphor between
children and society "forgetting" the dangerous natures of their activities in this poem is an excellent
example of her this ability to reflecting back society's feelings about current events and contribute
her own version of the bomb story to the collective memory of society. Gardner not only challenged
the collective memory of society of the time, she also uses the poem's structure to show a cycle of
memory and
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15. Essay about The Mexican Tlaltelolco Massacre
Around the time of the Massacre in Mexico, there were a number of books written based on the
brutal killings. Three popular books that were written by Mexican writers and addressed the
movement of Mexican students, during that era, were Massacre in Mexico (by Elena Poniatowska),
'68 (by Paco Ignacio Taibo II), and Palinuro of Mexico (by Fernando de Paso). Their literature
presented a disturbing look into a student movement, which culminated in hundreds of student
protestors being massacred on October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas/Tlatelolco of
Mexico City. This event led Pablo Ignacio Taibo II to write in the preface of his book '68, "There are
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What are the gender politics that emerge in these texts? Do these texts rely on or challenge universal
human rights discourse? And to begin, I will provide a brief summary on what took place in Mexico,
in 1968.
1968 wound up being a tumultuous year, globally. Author Mark Kurlansky added confirmation,
when he gave his book, 1968, the subtitle, "The year that rocked the world." In the beginning of
1968, Mexico was experiencing economic growth and preparing to host the summer Olympics, the
same year. At the same time, Mexico's President, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz feared what might become of
the Cuban and French radicals that were attempting to cause problems, throughout the world. To
make matters worse, there were students in France holding protests, during May of the same year.
The death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the year before, was causing a rise of Communist furor. The
Institutional Revolutionary Party, Ordaz's political party had a habit of locking up dissidents, buying
them off, or having them killed (Kurlansky 328).
In late July, the movement erupted, due to being in this type of environment. Four days prior to the
movement's eruption, there was a fight between a couple of local schools. Although anti–riot units
and police were called in to stop the fight, the units started provoking the students. Eventually, the
students attempted to end the fight and run back to their schools. But, the units chased after them
and assaulted teachers and students in
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17. The Purpose Of Fairy Tales In Briar Rose
The Imaginary stories are interesting and these stories are for children and adults. The novel Briar
Rose idolizes three characters Becca, Gemma, Josef Potocki. The main purpose of Fairy tales was
entertainment and time pass; moreover, teach people about moral, lessons regarding for example:
greed, hate, envy and jealousy. The heroine of Briar Rose; is Becca Berlin, a young Jewish woman
who grew up hearing her grandmother (nicknamed Gemma) tell the tale, before her grandmother
Gemma's death she tells Becca about the truth of the bedtime story, grandmother used to tell her;
was reality not a fantasy: The old woman was the princess who woke to a prince's kiss. Gemma begs
Becca to find the castle where it happened, and her granddaughter promises to do so. The comfort in
America, to the suffering of darker parts of fairytales world and the holocaust the experience, reality
and suffering identifying in the truth of the holocaust. Even fairy tales plays crucial in every person's
life but some people believes that fairy tales are just myths and fairy tales do not have any reality.
Controversial issues always emerged from one to another issues it is very help to boost the
education development gain the knowledge level of readers.
Briar Rose is heart touching and strong novel that blends of the "Sleeping Beauty" folklore and
holocaust tragedy. The story beings with Gemma, in a nursing home. Her granddaughters Silvia,
Shaun and Becca went to visit her, for she was on her
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