Category: English

  • Was Dr. Frankenstein a Sinister, or Just a Broken-Hearted Child?

    The book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is a significant example of gothic literature. It was written in the 19th century, just a few decades after the Industrial Revolution and it was written by a nineteen-year-old woman which makes it quite marginal at the time of male dominance in Europe as well as in most of…

  • from — Kill Bill: Volume 2

    Bill: An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero, and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman…