Cursuri interesante:
- Don’t Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1: Crash Course Literature 205
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 403
- 1984 by George Orwell, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 401
- Gender, Guilt, and Fate – Macbeth, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 410
- Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder – Hamlet Part 1: Crash Course Literature 203
- Candide: Crash Course Literature 405
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Crash Course Literature 304
- Reader, it’s Jane Eyre – Crash Course Literature 207
- Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202
- Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Literature 215
I can't believe John Green did not mention ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE when making connections to problematic science of our time.
how have we ignored "you always win with Darwin"
Lol, me-from-the-past skipped half of English 3 as well.
Frankenstein's reaction to the creating his "monster" reminds me of Oppenheimer's reaction to the success of the first testing of an atomic bomb. It wasn't until they saw the final product that either one fully realized what they had created…
Does anyone know why Frankenstein did not simply animate a corpse, rather than splicing together various parts?
Dr. Frankenstein was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, that he didn't stop to think if he should.
Thanks for the great videos on this novel. You brought up so many amazing themes–I'd highlight "imago dei." The monster was made in the image of his creator. The monster mirrors humanity's capacity for beauty and violence. Both wretched and wonderful–like his creator, but with no hope of redemption…
Now I've only read the book once, but my understanding of it was that the characters were emotions or conditions. Victor and the Monster did not develop or grow out of their problems, and Elizabeth was pure goodness with no flaws. My understand of the overall message of the book was that Mary Shelley was cautioning against ego and obsession. Victor was pure ego and obsession, and all that he loved was destroyed by his obsession.
Was the bar a reference to Shaun of the dead? Talked about zombies and the bar had the same gun on the wall