Mary Shelley

The keyword Mary Shelley is tagged in the following 4 articles.

Female Writers in the 18th Century: The Power of Imagination

October 15, 2010 - 3923 words | English » Female Writers

Female writers of the Eighteenth Century often focused on the role of the female imagination in novel writing, poetry composition, and as an outlet for temporarily escaping a harsh world. In Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft focused mostly on... Read Article »

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Imagination Eighteenth Century Female Writers 18th Century Frankenstein Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Anna Letitia Barbauld

Vampires: The Ever-Changing Face of Fear

May 7, 2010 - 3202 words | English » Vampires

In the past two-hundred or so years, vampires have transformed from a sort of worst nightmare into the charming hero of our dreams. Flashback to 1734, Oxford English Dictionary’s first record of the word vampire: they were generally and, depending on geographical... Read Article »

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Vampires Vampires in Popular Culture Vampyre John Polldori Mary Shelley Lord Byron History Of Vampires

Women as the Submissive Sex in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

January 26, 2010 - 864 words | Literary Criticism » Women in Literature

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author characterizes each woman as passive, disposable and serving a utilitarian function. Female characters like Safie, Elizabeth, Justine, Margaret and Agatha provide nothing more but a channel of action for the male characters... Read Article »

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Passive Female Characters Women in Literature Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Submissive Females in Literature Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Perceptions of Heroes and Villains in European Literature

January 12, 2010 - 3532 words | English » Heroes And Villains

It is tempting to classify literary, cinematic, and historical characters into groups. The trouble of course, is that such labels can be misleading at best, and severely subjective and variable. When using terms such as hero, villain, anti-hero, anti-villain, or adventurer... Read Article »

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Villains Heroes Shakespeare Wilkie Collins Dracula Bram Stoker Frankenstein Mary Shelley Dostoyevsky Crime And Punishment Richard II Richard III Raskolnikov The Conformist Alberto Moravi