Writing Resources
Frankenstein's Monster Usually when people hear the name Frankenstein they immediately think of a big hideous monster covered in scars that was brought to life by electricity This is completely false as Frankenstein is the creator of the monster not the monster itself The book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is set in the late 1700 s and is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who creates a creature out of numerous body parts His hunger for knowledge has cursed him as the monstrous creature he made keeps coming back to haunt him A monster is usually defined as a creature who is hideous and does things that are morally wrong or evil Victor Frankenstein's creature is a monster because he has the physical features of a monster and he has killed a considerable amount of Victor s loved ones Frankenstein's creature is a monster because of his physical appearance Monsters have a hideous face that scares a lot of people especially young children Victor describes Frankenstein as His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing his teeth of a pearly whiteness but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips
The Surrealist painter Salvador Dali is one of the most mysterious artists of the 20th century who is distinguished by his western and unfamiliar themes His most famous work is the Insistence of Memory 1931 which is a surreal masterpiece and is often referred to as the clocks Dali began painting this painting with a view of the coast of the sea in the province of Catalonia and then included in the drawing scenes of three hours pocket molten on one of them fly in addition to a fourth hour Ants prey In the middle of the painting and under one of the melted clocks a wrist appears in the shape of a distorted human face The idea Dali wanted to convey through this painting is that time is less solid than people normally assume Daley painted the painting after a dream he saw after a light soft cheese dinner For this reason watches look soft to the point of melting But what is the meaning behind Salvador Dali s Determination of Memory What do all these hours mean We can see in the painting a lot of dissolved hours that represent half the circle is good and the other half melted and find the curved lines in most of the artwork also we can find a depth in the painting perspective and the line of sight in the painting is in the upper quarter of the plate and we also find curved lines in the branch of the tree and also in the mountain and a straight line in the table
