Annotated Bibliography

Lector, Hannibal, Perf. Hannibal. Dir.
      Ridley Scott. 2001. Film.
I choose to use this as my Primary Source for my project. The reason being is I believe that the movie lets you take a little bit more away in terms as being able to visualize and understand the concepts of Hannibal. I liked this source because of the visual effects in the movie and the language. It was easier to understand when it was being spoken rather then just being read. Literature is difficult for me to understand at times so the movie was the perfect primary source for me to start with.

Szumskyj, Benjamin. Dissecting 
    Hannibal Lecter, Essays On The 
   Novels Of Thomas Harris.
   McFarland & Company, 2008.
   Print.
I choose to use this as one of my secondary sources. The reason I choose to use this because I think it will be very influential in the other readings and a compliment to the movie. Hopefully this will allow me to "Dissect"some true meanings in this story and film. Hannibal is a very complicated man and takes some time to understand what he is trying to express to you in his puzzles and this could be a great way to have a chance to decipher what he is getting across.

O'Brien, aniel. The Hannibal Files, 
   The Unauthorised Guide To The
   Hannibal Lecter Trilogy. 2009.
   Print.
 This seemed to be a very interesting secondary source for me to take advantage of. This gets a inside look at the director and the film.This could ultimately be a very large part of my final project. I will be able to look at the way the director saw things and I will be able to understand and get inside the movie. Only more reading and time will tell how influential  this book can be for me.

Harris, Thomas. Hannibal. Dell, 2001.
     Print.
This book is a reflection of the movie. This source will allow me to make proper quotes from the movie. I will be able to be accurate and precise in my citations. This will also be a great compliment to the movie because I will be able to look at the text as well. And if I have some confusion in either they will lend to compliment one another in helping me to grasp what is being dictated to me.

Harris, Thomas. The Silence Of The 
    Lambs. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000.
    Print. 
And as my last source I choose to use the, The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first portion of the trilogy that Hannibal is introduced in. This book gets us the initial catty, articulate, and intellectual insight of that man. This book shows us that Hannibal is not just a criminal but gives us a look at how he chooses to use Clarisse and sees her in a way that some might think he loves her. This is a big part of understanding Hannibal to me. Like we are always told you never get a second chance at first impressions and Hannibal does a very good job at his introduction and sets the stage for a miraculous journey. 

Final Project Proposal

In deciding the option for my final project I have decided to propose to use option number two. This is the monsters project. And the monster that I wish to write and research is cannibals. I chose this option because I will be able to do research on the project and that is a type of writing I am very familiar and comfortable with. I have not yet determined what I will exactly be using as my primary text yet. I want to be able to look into it very in depth as to get the best information available. I plan to accomplish ans amazing paper that will be a surprising change in skill to our teacher. I have not be receiving the grades I would like to and I would like this paper to be able to make the big change for me. I plan on using every possible item I can find for support on my project. I will search the topic and find certain points I would like to really hit on and then narrow down my findings to make a clear and descriptive paper. I look forward to this project even though I am nervous at the same time. I want this paper to be a big step up from the ones I have been writing and I hope to accomplish this.

http://kirillsghostwriter.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/having-your-friends-for-dinner-perspectives-on-cannibalism/

Mid-Term Check In

Laura Cline
English 102
October 18, 2011

 Dear, Mrs. Cline

 During thus far in this class I have enjoyed and struggled with several different things. This class has taught me that you have to look so much deeper into certain readings just so that you can find the true meaning of them. And sometimes you are still not fully comprehending what the author is trying to portray to you. I believe that my biggest challenge in this class has been trying to understand the poems that we had read. Poems have always been difficult for me to understand the meaning and the use of words. I think that the other part that has been challenging for me is trying to portray my thoughts and meaning on to paper for others to fully conceive. Although, liking to write, I would have to say that possessing this I have had an advantage in the class. It is not hard for me to sit down and write and think of how I could try to become creative and hopefully have people understand what I am saying. I honestly don't believe the readings in this class have effected me in any way. I look at the readings as something that is being asked of me so really they aren't presenting a strong opinion to me. The literary analysis has been a complete different writing approach then what I am used to doing. When I have taken classes in writing in the past I have always far surpassed the expectations of my teachers, I had always gotten straight A's and had a "wonderful writing style" this writing is very different for me. I much rather prefer writing an argumentative or research paper. Hopefully during the last half of my semester I will be able to understand and excel in the types of writing we are doing in this class.

I hope to be taking the advice from you as well as I possibly can. I like to write and would like to be able to take the skills in this class to better myself as a writer. I enjoy the challenges that are being thrown at me it gives me a reason to become more motivated and to push harder to strive for not only a better grade but to expand my abilities.

 Sincerely, Lindsey Meredith

Draft Essay #3

Death by Abandonment

“Frankenstein” was a book of turmoil. I found the book to be very depressing in every way possible. Although, the story was very well put together with a great deal of element. The point to detail was allowing the reader to be placed in the settings and hearing, smelling, and seeing what was really going on. Throughout the whole reading of this story you were able to sit side by side with every character and their feelings. The story itself was good, just disheartening. The theme of “Frankenstein” was simply put to me, abandonment. Abandonment, weather self-abandonment or abandonment by death flowed throughout the book. Everywhere that Victor turned he had seen ones that he loved and that he had hated leave him, and continue to further leave him lonely in this world. Excellence and companionship was always being strived for in the book as well. When Victor went off to school, he went to become a more educated human, when he began his creation of the fiend he attempted recognition, marrying his cousin for the happiness of his mother and fathers wishes, and Walton yearning for a friend while on his voyage; just to name a few. I believe that Shelley was trying to get us to understand that everyone in this world, weather they be good or evil, strives for a sense of placement in humanity. We all want to become something great and be loved, and this book shares the hardships of trying to accomplish this for the young man Victor. Ultimately causing him so many let downs that it kills him, yet his soul had been dead long before the actual mortality of his demise. “he forfeits every comfort of life, and finally even life itself.” (Anonymous 196)

The depth of despair lurks everywhere in this amazingly creative masterpiece. As stated “We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand’ ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Naught may endure but mutability!” (Frankenstein, 64). Frankenstein’s nature is but sweet and honorable. He is predestined for a miserable life. He looks for a positive outlook yet always is pushed down. Frankenstein tries to obey every wish and accomplish every goal he has, all with a positive and open mind. Yet, every door he opens is slammed in his face with some type of mayhem that is to bring him down and give him the feeling of despair.

The personality of Frankenstein is continually emphasized throughout the reading. His quietness and compassion is shown when he is explaining his story to the new friend he made on the ship of which he was rescued. Everyday, growing weaker and more depressed thinking of his failure in not being able to reach his fiend to demolish his being. He stands up for his new friend when his crewmen question and demand him to go back as soon as the ice clears. As badly as he wishes to ask Walton to go after his fiend to complete his mission, he does not, in fear he too will bear the horrible outcome of life as he has. “This novel rests its claim on being a source of powerful and profound emotion.” (Shelley, 185) And even just for a brief moment shows compassion for the fiend he created he. When asked to make a companion of the opposite sex for the fiend he seriously contemplates this demand. Yet when truly having time to comprehend the possible outcome of this new creature, he refuses. He looks for the good in life but just cannot grasp it. Events that he tries to look forward to, he cant, in the fear of the bitter outcome that his fiend has promised him.

The fiend also shows great passion in this novel. He desires the companionship of a human, however with one look at his hideous features he is sworn a daemon. The compassion he shows to his friends in the cottage, by helping them gather wood and accomplishing chores for them at night when they cannot see him. Desperately asking for acceptance from the old blind man, and in turn getting beaten by the young son when he returns to find this creature with his incapable father. “…affectionate and full of moral sensibility, yet the circumstances of his existence are so monstrous and uncommon, that, when the consequences of them became developed in action, his original goodness was gradually turned to inextinguishable misanthropy and revenge.”  (Shelley 186) He so badly wanted to have a friend in the world and to be accepted. The ignorance of mankind made the creation become a monster, we must think if he could be accepted would be have turned out to be such a monstrosity or could he have kept his innocence and submissive demeanor? “-his natural tendency to kind feelings, and the manner in which they were blighted, -”. (Anonymous 191) It was if only he was treated with the kindness and compassion that he could have stayed a gentle creation and been one of the greatest inventions of all time.

“Frankenstein” is without a doubt one of the most creative novels ever written, bringing life, death and the troubling need for placement in the world. One who is banned to a solitary life style can only last in existence for so long without going insane. The acceptance from our peers is something we all strive for weather we choose to admit that or not. Shelley has, in all of her characters made a demanding need for that. And as hard as Frankenstein tries to achieve this he is always lacking the ability, and in the saddest manner it is in his own doings of why this cannot happen for himself. If Frankenstein would not have wanted so badly deify the rules of nature and continue to exceed himself in science he could have lived a long and prosperous life, with his family and the marriage of his cousin. And on the other hand if the fiend had been made successfully into the creation that Frankenstein had planned there was a chance for so much scientific accomplishment and wonder. And furthermore the fiend would not have been seen as an abomination and could have received the companionship and care that he had always wished to have with the human race, of which he was created out of. The Abandonment that Frankenstein felt was bitterly transferred to the fiend when he so eagerly abandoned the creation that he had made. The wretched sight of the creation was enough for Frankenstein to leave; he could have made the fiend such an astonishing accomplishment that was well educated and coherent showing his great knowledge surpassing that of his professors. Frankenstein had left his soft demeanor when he forsaken this hideous creation.  But nonetheless he abandoned this creation and therefore abandoning all hope for his happy and fruitful life he could have lived. Frankenstein had all of the makings in becoming something great with many accomplishments and the fiend completely took all of the hope of this away just because of the ways his creator and the other humans treated him. If shown Frankenstein’s true loving nature the fiend and he could have had an amazing partnership and continued their lives in an accomplished way.

Works Cited

Anonymous as cited in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. From Edinburgh Magazine. A Norton Critical Ed. New York, London: WW Norton & Company, 191. Print.

Anonymous as cited in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. From Gentleman's Magazine. A Norton Critical Ed. New York, London: WW Norton & Company, 196. Print.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. A Norton Critical Ed. New York, London: WW Norton & Company, 64. Print.

Shelley Bysshe, Percyas as cited in, Mary Shelley. On Frankenstein. A Norton Critical Ed. New York, London: WW Norton & Company, 185 & 186. Print.

Summary of a Critical Response

I chose to use William Veeder "The Women of Frankenstein" that was written in 1986 to respond to. The He is letting us know of the role of these women that are so important to Frankenstein, and how he sees them relate in Mary Shelley. He believes that Shelley is taking the very weakness in herself and becoming defensive in her writing on he female characters. She try's to express that her women are no more weak then a man. She at the same time gives her woman a very submissive demeanor.
I read the story differently then Veeder did. I didn't focus on the role of the women in the story to this much detail. Although, after reading this perspective of the story I can see where this can come to the mind. Personally this particular response will not be used in my 3rd essay. I found things in the story that I saw as having more importance, than what Veeder saw this as.  

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