Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Frankenstein Question Response
If I had to choose among ugly, angry, ignorant, guilty, extremely intelligent, or extremely attractive, I would least want to be guilty or feel guilty. If I was guilty of a crime, I would not know how to live the remaining years of my life without thinking about the crime. I live by the motto "To get anywhere in life you must look to a brighter future, not the road you were on before. Always move forward not backwards." With the crime I committed, I always be dragged by it everywhere I go because it will forever be on my record. It will be harder to live a better life since the crime I committed made a huge psychological damage to myself and my family. Above all the choices given, I would least want to be guilty.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner fig lang
2 Key elements that the author uses are alliteration and personification. Alliteration, which is the repetition of consonant sounds in 2 or more neighboring words or syllables, helps add extra detail to the poem. One example of it is, "The faire breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free; we were the first that ever burst into the silent sea." It displays the Mariners memory which shows how important this event was. While personification, the giving something human like characteristics, is strongly used in givng the sun and other objects man like qualities. "The sun came up upon the left out of the sea came he! And he shown bright, and on the right went down into the sea" Displays the importance of the effect the sun had on the Mariner
Frakenstein
As Victor began his experiments he said "if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed" to justify to himself of the creation of the creature. It makes me wonder that was disturbing the tranquility of his domestic affections worth it because upon meeting his creation he became traumatized. Also those events he mentioned had catastrophes.In the process of discovering America many Native Americans were killed and entire populations of Native Americans in Mexico and Peru were enslaved or killed. Those events were terrible and he used them to justify his experiments, i believe it foreshadows that his creation, the creature, will go on to haunt him and do terrible actions.
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