Knowledge: Can it be Sin to Know? The aim of this paper is to explore the theme of 'forbidden knowledge¡ by analysing Mary Shelley¡s Frankenstein and John Milton¡s Paradise Lost, so as to show some of the aspects in which these two stories are remarkably similar. In order to achieve this, th...

Frankenstein is a novel consisted of many different parts and narrators. The reader reads the novel from the perspectives of Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster. Walton exhibits emotions expected from someone hearing such a fantastic story, Victor sets the main plot of the novel, an...

The term Gothic conjures up images of frightened women, graveyards, and haunted castles in the mist, popular settings for horror films. But is this what Gothic means? The Oxford Companion to English Literature defines Gothic as, "Tales of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural, usually set amid ...

Knowledge, social responsibility, society's view of beauty, and secrecyare major themes that occur in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Shelleyis able to identity some of the most hideous of human characteristics inher characters, focusing on how easily an obsession can become a blinding,dange...