Quote: “It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. …. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties,”. Comment: I agree with this sentiment, I have often felt bored or trapped when there is not much going on besides what I do daily. I often feel the need…
Quote: “In Frankenstein, I would argue that it horrifies Victor to encounter something so intimately familiar in the Creature’s sublime and uncanny body. Perhaps our conversations about disability in general—and in this novel—are similarly inflected.” -From Born This Way: Reading Frankenstein with Disability by Martha Stoddard Holmes Comment: Holmes brought up a lot of ideas that society at a whole is uncomfortable talking about that need to be talked about. This ending statement in the essay in particular struck me…
Quotation: Page 45 “In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agirppa…. My father looked carelessly at the titlepage….” Comment/ Connection: Disregarding of Victor’s interest in the book sparked a need to know what was in the book that made it “sad trash”. This starts his interest in biology and his eventual experiments of reanimation. The way the quote shows how he got interest in this subject makes it seem like an act of…
