Monster Essay Examples

Notorious: A word reserved for household names such as Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer. But there exists ironically, the least known about, but likely one of the worst killers to exist in the modern era. And after learning about him, I am sure you will not forget his name. Pedro Alonso Lopez…

Lusus Naturae, meaning like a monster, is a story about an innocent young girl that transforms into a hideous monster. As tension grows between her and her family a consensus is reached for her to disappear. After living a solitary life in the comfort of the shadows for many years, her desire for human connection…

  Luke 6:31 says, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Susan Tyler Hitchcock states that “The human mind begins as a tabula rasa, a blank slate. Knowledge of the outside world forms as sensory impressions bombard the mind and accumulate into ideas and options” (Hitchcock 46). Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein explores…

Who would’ve thought that creating and trying to discover that true meaning of life would cause so much trouble. Victor is finally ready to become a student at University of Ingolstadt in Germany but unfortunately his mother, Caroline, and Cousin, Elizabeth, become sick with scarlet fever. His mother dies but Elizabeth recovers and becomes the…

Frankenstein, a gothic novel about love, betrayal, life and death has many characters with their own qualities that contribute key points to the novel. The character who caught my attention, and who will be highlighted as a self absorbed scientist, is Victor. Victors main quality is selfishness and could even be qualified as greed for…

Deep Rising, is a 1998 Sci-Fi film set in the middle of the South China Sea. The best way to describe this film would be Titanic meets Indiana Jones meets Jaws, but replace the shark with a different man-eating creature. The film started with text titles on a solid black background, giving the viewer a…

The great Sioux chief and all his men went sinking down below to a watery grave, not one survivor. The Devil’s Lake Monster was a ferocious Nakota Sioux legend, believed to be the devil himself. The Devil’s Lake Monster was a creature believed by the Nakota Sioux indians to be the the prince of evil,…

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves”- Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, noticeably lacks a cast of strongly independent female characters. Shelley’s novel depicts the dominant role that men have over women and eventually the women’s fall due to their dominance. Although the women in the novel…

When Victor meets the Monster again after making him, it is right outside the closed city gates. I imagine this is supposed to have some type of connection. He can not escape into the safety of the safety just like the monster ca not escape from his looks/ the reaction of people when they see…

Poe once stated, “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world” (Stephanou 39). This reveals his almost manic obsession with women and specifically their death[SH1] [SH2] . It is then unsurprising that a major thematic thread that runs throughout his entire collection of work is the uncanny deaths…