Category Archives: Group 6

The obvious link that can be made in the comet and frankenstein is the story and struggles of the monster. Jim Davis personifies the “monster’s” struggle of being different and despised among humankind and yet desiring contact and love which he is denied even when he does something right. In Davis’ tale he is reduced to racism and subjugation the moment that the woman’s father and friends arrive. He had chosen to help rescue this woman in the midst of this crisis and experiences her change in attitude towards him. Then his transfiguration that occurred moments before in the woman’s eyes to that of a titan among men and some sort of ancient king to be the progenitor of a new humanity, is totally stripped from him with the first mention of the word nigger. This mirrors the word monster expressed in Frankenstein and carries the same evil stigma.

In the monster’s tale he rescues a young girl and is shot for it, he also helps the old man and his family for an entire season and they beat and reject him immediately upon seeing his figure.

This thread of of alienation occurs under different meaning and circumstance in “Who Goes There” and The Thing because it is sort of a reverse process in those instances. In these stories the alienation occurs as people are exposed to the virus that changes people into the “monster” and makes everyone suspicious of each other. Thus everyone becomes a suspect and thus is separated out from the rest of humanity whether anyone knows they’re an alien or not. To me that is the theme that threads though all of these stories. Continue reading →

You cover a lot of ground in this post, a bit chaotically. I wonder what connections you see between “The Comet,” “Who Goes There,” and the proto-science fiction of Frankenstein? That is, are there any recurring themes you could use to tie these texts together (particularly the short stories)? Continue reading →

I thought her use of language was way over the top and as mark Pagel suggested it is somehow still very infectious. I don't like the way Shelly writes, as it is overly flowery in its emotional tones but I found myself starting to think in her weird flowery way of writing. What shelly ended up accomplishing was making me despise the character of Frankenstein through his way of speaking but somehow indoctrinating me to think in similar terms simply through reading. It's darn close to brain washing and I think her changes based off of her choices of "style" did not indeed change her style at all but rather her substance.

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Yea good point. I've been typing my posts in a word processor and then copying and pasting it over. Somewhere in that copying and pasting, something went awry and I lost my paragraph breaks. Continue reading →

Good thoughts! Btw, please remember to format your post according to web standards to include paragraphs (aka, hit the Enter key) to help your readers out.
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