Beowulfs Fame

I think that Beowulf is being very selfish in his fame! He is being very selfish! Every fight that he fights he needs some kind of award for doing this great act. "...fame after death is the noblest of goals."(1388-1389). Beowulf never said that defeating Grendel and his mother was the right thing to do, only that he was going to gain so much fame from defeating these two people. Beowulf is only using his strength and courage to clear his family name and to receive fame. He is helping all these people for the wrong reasons. He should be willing to help those for the good that comes out of it, not for just the fame and power. And even all the gifts that he is receiving is driving him to become more and more on top of the world. He is using his strength and gaining popularity for all the wrong reasons. So, yes, I do think that Beowulf is being selfish in his attempt at fame.

Fifth Child Cover Choice

The cover that describes The Fifth Child the best is the one where the boy is looking out the window, the fourth one. Where he has his hand on the window wanting to get out and escape from his life. THats how his life is. "Now he was locked into his room each night, and there were heavy bars on the door as well." (Lessing 64). This cover shows how trapped Ben is in this world. It shows how he does not receive a lot of attention from his family, and how he is basically a prisoner in his own home. He is not a true part of there happy family. He is trapped in this life and there is no escape for him.

"It's alive. Again"

"It's alive Again."(Whitty). Stephen Whitty wrote an article about Mary Shelley's monster being alive again after 183 years of his literary birth. Mary Shelley was publicly humiliated and criticized. she lived a hard life of having many and most of her children die. i think that when she wrote Frankenstein she was putting her own life into part of the book and some of the character in it. this article makes sense in the fact that Mary Shelley wrote the book in comparison to her life. Shelley was different then most of the public so she didn't really fit in well with them. which was kind of the same in the case with the creature victor created. he could not fit in with man he had to struggle to live on his own. "Mary Shelley was not writing about the evils of science and progress. But suffering and loss and pain, the feeling of being ostracized-"(Whitty). the book did have horror and science but the book was filled with pain and suffering and loss as well. As Whitty says, "There's a bit of the creature in all of us." We all have some kind of creature in all of us and it is just waiting to come out into the world. Some of us have pain and suffering and others of us have joy and happiness. everyone goes through some sort of emotional even physical time on their lives, and Shelley put that in her book Frankenstein.

So far, my opinion of Frankenstein is that it is not as interesting as i thought it would be. When I first started reading Frankenstein I thought that it would be more like the movies that were made from the book. It is nothing like the movies. The movies changed around what the book says and does with everything. On part that is especially different then I thought it would be is the, "ITS ALIVE!!!"(Whale). this part in both the films and the book are different from each other. I personally thought that the book would be very scary and horrific, but it is not at all. The book is not scary it just has a lot of detail in it. This book is more detailed than anything else.
This book is good but i guess its not as good as i was expecting. I was expecting it to be more exciting more interesting and really scary! But in my opinion it really wasn't. A good quote from this book is from page 154 and it says, "...which i dared not trust myself to question but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom." This quote was put at the end of a chapter and its thought from Victor. This is when Victor is trying to create another creature for his first creature. That's another thing I really don't remember there being anything about another creature. This is the first i heard of another creature being created. This book is a good reading so far but its not as exciting and interesting as i thought it would have been.