Literature and Life take home exam

What’s the relationship between the subjects of the objects we have seen and life?

What’s the notice of “Frankenstein”?



What’s the relationship between the subjects of the objects we have seen and life?

In “Lady and Tiger”, I found the jealousness, distrust, class, and family status in life. The king disagreed with his daughter and an officer were in love, because the officer had a much lower family status than theirs, and the officer was in a much lower class; the princess was jealous of her lover had somewhat romantic relationship with a maid; when the officer went to the door which the princess directed him to choose, he hesitated to open it, he had somewhat suspicion on the princess’ kindly help, the suspicion was that was the princess such a generous, forgiving, and kind woman to make the officer and the maid being a couple?

In “The Lottery”, I found the ridiculousness and absurdity in life. We all felt the villagers were ridiculous, they believed if they kill someone by throwing him or her rocks and stones, they could have a plentiful harvest and a relaxation. And the real-life world is also ridiculous, we discriminate against people, classify people on the race, the ethnicity, the level of education, the amount of income, and the status of society.

In “King Lear”, I found the ambition, snobbishness, and blindness in life. The two oldest daughters of King Lear treated him as the greatest, closest, and most important father while he hadn’t release the throne yet, whereas they treat Lear as an abandoned old and mad man after he delivered the country to them. The youngest daughter, Cordelia, was pure, unselfish, and unflinchingly loyal. Lear treated Cordelia as nothing because he was blinded by the sweet words, while Gloucester was blinded by lies and tricks.

In “Frankenstein”, I found the stubbornness, selfishness, prejudice, and revenge in life. Frankenstein is a stubborn man, he insisted relive his teacher, hence birth a poor monster without name; he insisted relive his wife, Elizabeth, hence made her suicide. The man made by Frankenstein encountered much discrimination and prejudice, everyone treated him as a monster, attack him and run away from him, even though he had done a lot help for his wanted friends. The man decided to avenge his maker, Frankenstein, this decision sank Frankenstein in tragedy.

I had read the Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” published by Penguin, and seen the movie in class. What I found in “Pride and Prejudice” are pride and prejudice of course. When Elizabeth Bennet first met eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thought him arrogant and conceited, while he struggled to remain indifferent to her good look and lively mind. When she later discovered Darcy had involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane; meanwhile she was blinded by Whickham’s lies, she was determined to dislike Darcy more than ever. Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions. When Elizabeth had read the letter from Darcy many times, she regretted what she had judged. She said ‘Vanity, not love, has been my folly’. And I have been impressed by Elizabeth’s lively life philosophy: Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.




What’s the notice of “Frankenstein”?

In the film “Stargate SG-1”, the replicas have human shape, human looks, and human thoughts. They can love the others, but they can’t get the trust from human; they avenge their creator, human, like the story Frankenstein.
In Margaret Atwood’s fiction “Oryx and Crake“, Crake capriciously creates a new human being and destroys original ones. Crake’s capriciousness likes Frankenstein’s.
In Michael Crichton’s fiction “Prey”, the scientists egotistically create an intellectual, loosing control nanometer being for their wealth. The selfishness of them likes Frankenstein’s.
In Umberto Eco’s fiction “The name of the rose”, the old monk Jorge follows his belief to kill some monks. He stubbornly guards a book from exposing. To blindly protect his world, his belief, he burns all of the books, all the wisdoms and intelligence in the library. The stubbornness and blindness like Frankenstein’s.

We all hope our lovely family, friends, lover could live for a very long time. We all hope we can accompany with our loves forever. But, if our lover, family, or friends die, do we have the right to relive them even with a human they wouldn’t want to be? I think it’s not, we have no rights to relive them for our egotistic sake, and we have no rights to make any decision for them to live with deficiency.
We often blindly do something harmful, but we always know it until the harm gotten. There are always a lot of sounds come from our consciences and the other’s advises; if we spare a bit of time to think about our scheme twice, we may avoid the harm. If Frankenstein spares a little bit time to think about his working, he may avoid creating a monster and a series tragedies.