How do male character shape or influence the texts in The Crucible and Frankenstein? “Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence” (Unknown), it is human nature to want power and influence. The male characters in the following texts have achieved this goal. Society has portrayed males as dominant figures. Males govern the better positions in society whereas females generally do not. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller and Mary Shelley portray the role of male characters in society well. From the way Giles Corey dies to the Creation of the Monster, these texts show the influential role that specifically males occupy in the world. The texts by Arthur Miller and Mary Shelley both portray male characters who are influential …show more content…
Victor Frankenstein is a man who holds lots of power because he comes from a rich family in Geneva. His ambitions and what people expect from him lead to the creation of a being that he later regrets. “ No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world ” (Victor). Basically Victor is talking about creating the Monster. The Psychoanalytical theory is shown here because Victor has an id that tries to satisfy his ego through the creation of the Monster. The deadly sin of Immoral scientific experimentation is also relevant because Victor is trying to be like God and do something that nobody should even test. Victor does not think about the consequences of his creation. He has his own selfish goals so that he can feel powerful too. The danger of knowledge is a theme that is also expressed because the knowledge he gains also comes with a dangerous power which haunts him afterwards. In comparison both Victor and Parris strive for their own goals and do not really care about the consequences. They differ because Victor does this to satisfy his own ego but Parris does this to not only satisfy his own ego but to make others think he is a really good guy. Victor and Parris have the same amount of power and influence in their societies too. Victor lust for power and his desire to fulfil his goal to be none and remembered as someone eventually leads to him being very troubled and
Many people say that in order to get justice they have to respond to what's been done to them. In frankenstein the creature that victor creates tends to search for justice. In this novel the way that the “monster” tends to be rejected by many and brought him to the point that he understands and gets justice by killing different persons throughout the whole book. Victor was a scientist who created and brought a life into the world which had been thought to be impossible. For example, when the creature had recently been created at first he didn’t have any feelings.
Crucible Thesis Statement Even in today's’ society women are collectively expected to stay quiet and be predominantly obedient to men. But in the play, the crucible by Arthur Miller, he changes that concept completely, and flips those roles when he has all these girls cry witch and they start to accuse the people they wish dead and on the most part they succeed. Since witchcraft is an “invisible crime” there is no proof that they are lying, so whoever is accused is as good as dead. The women in the crucible generally break gender roles because in the play for once, they were the ones calling the shots, they were the ones being loud (and expressing themselves rather creatively and deceptively), and they were the ones disobeying the men.
Power for women was not much back in the 1600s. Women had no power at all in the government. Women had to find their power in other things, but women still found power. In the works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrated the control of women in the Puritan times. Even though in both The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, women have less control in the society than men, in The Crucible women have more say in the action of the society than the women in The Scarlet Letter.
The Crucible and 12 Angry Men are both, excellent examples of instances when justice is fragile. One individual’s decision could be life or death in these cases. The only person who knows if they are guilty or not for certain is the suspect, unless there is factual proof. During jury duty, the jurors could just be focused on getting the job done so they can leave and do their evening activities. For the suspect, it was his fate.
Multimodal Speech Analysis Power has influenced society throughout time and is acquired through knowledge, a patriarchal society, monarchy, a family name, birth right, reputation or placement within social hierarchy. This has been revealed in various ways through texts such as The Crucible. A good name or reputation can influence, empower and determine how much respect a family or person gets from others. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller and was set in the Massachusetts town of Salem in 1692. Salem was a theocratic and patriarchal society.
The poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband", and parts of the play "The Crucible" have many similarities. In the poem Bradstreet states her love for her husband, and how she'd rather not live than live without him. For example, she says, "That when we live no more, we may live ever." This statement shows how much love she has for her husband, and how she couldn't go without him. This relates to "The Crucible" because both of the stories show their love for their significant other.
At this point, Victor Frankenstein has started to work on his project to create life from dead. In doing so, he has alienated himself from society. His feelings about his project result in a powerful and destructive creation that is similar to “a hurricane.” He thinks of himself as a Godly figure because he can create life like God.
Consequently, Victor creates a monster that later ruins his life and the lives of those around him in the story mostly due to his poor variety of decisions. These facts proves that Victor’s downfall is most likely caused by his failure of balancing his ego by allowing his Id and superego get to him. In the novel
The Crucible and Gender Roles In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, gender roles are very evident throughout the book even when they aren’t immediately noticed. Minor details like women not having jobs and men being the ones doing the physical and hard labor are quite repetitive in the play. In 1692, when the play took place, the main gender roles were that men were laborers and workers while the women stayed home to care for children, cook, clean and keep the house for their husbands. In the Crucible specifically, in the town of Salem during the witch trials that happen there, gender roles can be seen through the judges, reverends and farmers all being men and women being the housewives or servants, they are also evident in the conversations that
The Feminist Part of The Crucible. Feminism In the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller, I see a lot of feminism present throughout Salem, Massachusetts in the 1960s. One way it is present is with how men hold all the power, with jobs and they have more power than women in all. Also, Miller makes it seem like women are liars during the whole play.
Victor realizes that he has lost control of the monster’s actions and regrets not taking the proper precautions in seizing the monster when he has the opportunity. Ultimately, Victor is victimized. After the murder of Elizabeth, Victor reflects on the deaths of his loved ones and says, “The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend” (174). Victor suffers watching his loved ones die one by one, yet lacking the ability to save them. Overall, Victor’s victimization is due to his timorousness dealing with his initial
The most troubling problem that women have had is having a choice, and people have fought for it for centuries. This is show through both of the plots, but they are different in the level the women have. With that, The Crucible shows several time that women and men talk on the same level. A women can also feely yell at a man, and voice her feelings. They can also say yes or no on their own.
In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, ambition evolves into a form of obsession with revenge. But the result of vengeance is a curse to human life and its longevity. Both main characters in the novel, Victor and the monster become obsessed and let vengeance be their downfall. Victor was a very ambitious character who longed for knowledge and the presence of new life. He soon became obsessed with his creation and said,“I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
He uses the little that he knows to fuel his hatred towards humans and his creator. This shows the exponential growth of the problems that Victor has created as a result of his desire for knowledge. Not only did he create the destructive monster, but now the monster is using a hunger for knowledge, the very thing that created it, to do even more damage. This root cause is linked to everything that is causing Victor’s suffering. The monster also compares his relationship to Victor to that of God and Adam, wishing that he had the same supplication to his creator that Adam did, “I remembered Adam’s supplication to his creator.
In 1959, psychologist Harry Harlow conducted an experiment on baby monkeys to demonstrate the importance of nurturing infants and the effects of a lack of compassion and love. The idea of abandonment also applies to the two narratives Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Ex Machina by Alex Garland. While Victor Frankenstein neglects the monster and Nathan Bateman neglects his robots, the two stories share a similar message that neglecting one’s creation leads to foul consequences. The monster and the robot being treated as objects from the beginning cause the creations to hate their creator, Nathan and Victor. Next, Ava and Frankenstein’s monster receive a lack of nurturing; neither creator took in the moral considerations of raising a human and