Faust and Frankenstein Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the hero in their worlds. In Faust, the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and ment...

Statement of intention: In response to the selection of Australian poems on the theme of art and the artist I am going to write about an artist's need to create art. I will attempt to answer the question of why it is so important for an artist to create, incorporating my interpretation of wha...

Every known living person has memories. Some are memories of time full of happiness, and some are filled with death, destruction, and pain. But, are our memories ours? Do we own what we think, or are they manufactured by our brains in a twisted chain of neurological events? If we can create memori...

Apocalyptic Wallpaper: A term used to describe the work of modern artists who created and benefited from their works of art without actually committing to them. Such artists protected themselves from any form of attack or criticism by creating works that were vague and did not reveal any part of the...

In order to have an opinion regarding the controversial views of an artist and their work, one must come to terms with the meaning of art. Art is abstract, it involves the ordinary and entwining it into a creation of many dimensions. Art is creativity, expression, rebirth, and a state of mind. There...

Life and death are essential elements in Gothic fiction. Life conveys hope; whereas death, hopelessness. These two words interlock with each other. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelly suggests that there is a fine line between life and death. Frankenstein's life becomes dedicated to analyzing lif...

Measures of TimeA watch measures the exactness of time. Or does it? Do the intricate set of devices in a watch actually assess time perfectly? It is difficult to fathom how this miniscule creation could properly perform this task. Furthermore, it is even more difficult to understand the differen...

Unlike the epic journey of the poet Dante, who progressed from the \"Inferno\" to the \"Purgatorio\" to the heights of the \"Paradiso\" before returning to the surface of the earth, according to the poet Goethe\'s text of \"Faust,\" the protagonist makes no such a return, ethically, morally, or phys...

Nature... Through Song & Writing The concepts of beauty, relaxation and perfection in nature have yet to die. We see the results of inspiration through works of art, music, poetry, and philosophy. Through time, the passion of nature has grown with diversity between all ages, nationalities, and ...

Anaxagoras Greek philosophy was first born in Ionia, where the main place of study was the city of Miletus. The school of Miletus spawned the three first philosophers of the time. Anaxagoras was a philosopher from approximately 500 to 428. He used ideas from past philosophers to come up with ideas...

Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World is an embankment by the imagination upon human desire. Constrained by the physical limitations of this world, Cavendish's ambition and love of thought carry her to the farthest reaches of her own imagination and to the creation of ...

Freud begins his article by wondering how the poet come by his material, and what makes him able to carry us with him in such a way and to arouse emotions in us of which we thought ourselves perhaps not even capable. Freud suggests trying to find some activity in ourselves which is in any way simila...

Critical analysis A & P An examination of critical styles represented in John Updike's A & P. John Updike's A & P provides numerous perspectives for critical interpretation. His descriptive metaphors and underly...

The Monster's Society Frankenstein sets its self apart as being one of the most unique novels in the institute of English literature. Looking deeper into the story, you realize that it is not just a gothic tale about a monster that everyone is familiar with. Mary Shelley presents many ideas about...

Descartes uses wax to demonstrate that knowledge gained from sensory impressions is not certain. He says that in order to be knowledge it has to be certain. Because the wax's property changed, his sense impressions changed. Thus, his conclusions about the wax were not certain. He rea...

Guilt...Fear...Damnation Guilt, a feeling of uneasiness and discomfort, is a sensation that nearly all individuals may have experienced at one time or another. Throughout life, it is through guilt, instilled by society, that one is able to decipher between what is rig...

-Situations that have blocked adams free will- Written during the 17th century, John Milton's "Paradise Lost" describes the fall of man in a poetic lyric. His book closely details the character God, Satan, and how Adam and Eve came do their downfall. God's first human creation, Adam, was g...

When I stop and think about the word \"beauty,\" everything else along with the idea of beauty comes into mind. Beauty is like the scene where god kisses everything of his creation, including the most disastrous of humans. Like the perfect, even flow of the ocean, beauty is defined by either side ...

In W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903), he shares his perspective on individuals and how their experiences affect their degree of psychological attachment to their culture of origin. DuBois's most direct statement on this matter is his often quoted "double-consciousness:&...

The Fearful Symmetry Symmetry is defined as correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line. This definition applies to the abstract geometric shapes and all the man-made objects that are based on the impeccably symmetric geometric model. This kind...

The decision to drop the A-bomb was based on the thought that it would destroy our enemies but in reality it created more enemies that we have to deal with today. The three excerpts that were given in class were based on the fact that our enemies will be defeated but if the three writers had known ...

It was said that amongst the three Divine Comedies of Dante, Paradiso is the least read. But being the least in terms of audience reading does not make it into a bad literary creation. It is, in fact, the best. Unlike Inferno and Purgatoryo, Paradiso offers the readers complete perfection. T...

Victor's arrogance in his studies of the human body made him lose his sense of humanity. The monster was kind until society branded him as an outcast because of his appearance. Shelley uses the fact that they both started off with good intentions to tie them together. When Victor starts off he...

In Sharon Mazzarella's essay, she discusses how teenage girl magazines depict the "perfect prom." She says that Seventeen magazine focuses on beauty and fashion. Messages about nutrition and fitness seem to focus on weight loss and physical attractiveness. The predominant message o...

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him" Voltaire It is said that man is a being, who requires an entity above him. I'd like to state, in my view, that man is an insecure animal. He requires something to believe in, a sort of wall to lean on. This is the same ...