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Category: /Literature
…in political, economic, and social traditions, the age which witnessed the initial transformations of the Industrial Revolution. These revolutionist ideals helped to create the gothic novel, Frankenstein. Which stressed not to go too in depth in science…
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…her singing stops and she sighs helpless at her son's punishment. In the film's climax, she sings in joy that her "baby" is about to come home to her, as she freshens the linens in his old bedroom. But Tom is delivered dead, like Frankenstein's monster…
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Category: /Literature
…. Despite the classics such as Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Wuthering Heights, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde gaining recognition, there is still much criticism surrounding the contemporary horror as supposedly low culture. King is often criticised…
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Category: /History
…release, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter, is enough to explain its appeal to the younger audience. The 1960s also saw television attempt to sell a positive image of Jesse James to its audience. On Monday night, September 13, 1965 ABC aired…
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…of classic horror films such as Frankenstein (and the innumerable parodies of it which followed), this scene makes the townspeople metonymic of stereotypical German aggression and warmongering. So the text tells us that Germany is yet another country which does…
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…', Mary Shelly's novel 'Frankenstein' and Stephen King's novel 'The Dark Half' and his more recent short novel, 'Secret Window'. Most of these novels were written before 'Jekyll and Hyde' and so were, consequently, very likely to have influenced Stevenson…
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Category: /Literature/English
…descendants of the Gothic romance, as transmuted through such masterworks as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights. Another classic Gothic work, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is often cited as a forerunner of modern science fiction…
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…as clever at best, but with no solid moral basis, and a little too much time on their collective hands, having done such great things and falling so short of their true potential. So how can we address this issue of an electronic Frankenstein monster turned…
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Category: /History
…, then the press has been his Dr. Frankenstein. Anderson and May's view of McCarthy as "a political monster" was, by no means, unanimous among journalists. Still the two expressed a common sentiment in the nation's newsrooms in the early 1950s: that McCarthy's newfound…
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Category: /History
…to fame is writing the song "Home, Sweet Home." In London, he resisted the flirtatious advances of Mary Shelley, widow of Percy Shelley and author of Frankenstein. Finally, in Madrid and Seville from 1826-29, he researched and wrote Life and Voyages of Columbus…
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