The Idea of the Monster in Frankenstein and Popular Culture Essay

The women in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein pose as passive, virtuous and pure, parallel to alternative gothic novels. When in fact they are, the foundation of the novel and hold strength in their self-sacrifice that is simply repressed by a society dominated by men who impose strict gender roles. Women in the novel are stripped from possessing a voice of their own and are powerless; therefore, are badly represented in the text. The women play into the generic role of being inserted into the…

In lecture this week the theme for the readings are based around Popular Culture. The first reading titles “Our Zombies, Ourselves” by James Parker he explains the role of fictional monsters in the popular imagination. Parker’s essay is an extension of Toro and Hogan’s fascination with vampire myths just in reference to zombies. He picks various films and books that depict the elements of a zombie threw the writers eyes. He also chooses to cite a Canadian punk band which shows another variation…

This article is from the peer-reviewed journal Americana: The Journal American Popular Culture (1900-Present), which publishes scholarly articles about American pop-culture. Devers analyzes how technology displaces the home. The advancement of technology (especially during the cold war’s advancement of military technology) means that the human race has to rely less and less on the traditions of human labor and can allow technology to takeover in the home. Devers uses specific examples to…

In Volume 1 of Mary Shelley‘s ‘Frankenstein’, horror and terror are themes that evidently run strongly throughout, for example the horror of the creation and the awakening of the Creature, and Victor Frankenstein’s fearful response. According to James. B. Twitchell – “Horror – horrére means to stand on end or bristle”, which most definitely applies to Frankenstein. Written in the early 19th century, Shelley took inspiration from society at the time – particularly science – with the use of…

Frankenstein, also known as the Modern Prometheus, is a story begins with captain finding this man dying of hypothermia on a dog sled, brought him on his ship and while the man was dying, he told the captain his life story. His story was about himself, a scientist, who was struck with grief when his mother died that he believed he could bring back the deceased by using electricity. His first trial and error he used his dog after it had been hit by a carriage, it lived for a short period and then…

or more relevant to a present-day understanding. Despite this, Gothic texts still remain of value and relevance in terms of culture, society, and the influence that they have had on contemporary works. The Gothic genre has evolved from its roots in traditional Gothic text The Castle of Otranto, to a variety of subgenres such as science fiction, via Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein, horror, through Edgar Allan Poe 's The Black Cat and The Raven, and various modern renditions and appropriations of…

Freudianism Theory in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Sigmund Freud created the idea of the ‘psychologically divided self’, describing how there were three parts to the mind: the id, the ego, and the super-ego. Freud states how humans have the “The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in a man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture”(Freud 49). The ‘id’ represents a human’s primitive component of their mind, the ‘ego’ is where human’s mind make the…

religions exist ("How Many Religions Are There in the World”). Though people view religion as a way to boost morals; ironically, it is actually a root for many current problems. As defined by Merriam Webster, a monster is a “threatening force,” and strictly following a religion can definitely be a monster of society. Ways religion is a threatening force is by separating society as a whole, and creating an atmosphere of hate. Despite the positive impacts of having a faith, many bad outcomes have…

social cohesion. Frankenstein myth is just a symbolic representation of the fear that our technological creations surpass us and master, a systematic idea recent contributions of philosophy and sociology of science and technology. Insurance that Frankenstein's ghost strolls around for the mind of more than one, though, unlike in the monster created by Mary Shelley, in the genetic manipulation new life would be created from alive preexisting organisms. The part of Frankenstein…

interest in dead bodies has grown astonishingly in the past few decades for a variety of reasons. The idea of the deceased coming back to life has been a major theme in recent movies and television shows such as Zombieland and The Walking Dead. It is not an old concept, though, which is evident in the 1818 novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley in which the male protagonist creates a monster from old body parts. There have been a…