"Curiosity is the key to excellence"

Monday, October 31, 2016

Can Too Much Curiosity Lead To Your Own Destruction?

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As Frankenstein's creature began to learn more and more about this human world and his place in it, he eventually uncovers a sad truth. The creature ends up living in a hovel that is adjacent to a cottage with three other people after finding out that interacting with humans isn't resulting in anything good for him. However, his curiosity still forces him to keep on eavesdropping on many of the cottage people's conversations. He eventually learns that he is really different from human beings and that no one would really ever regard him as the same. He goes on to say, "Knowledge is permanent and irreversible; once gained, it cannot be dispossessed". This knowledge that was exposed to him came from him not being able to restrain his curiousness of this intriguing new world and the people in it, but who is to really blame him? Frankenstein completely abandons his creation and now the monster has to fend for himself, so the creature is at first able to use this curiosity to his advantage and learn things to ensure his survival. Nonetheless, he continues to learn and ultimately comes across this horrific news about his isolation. Shelley also provides parallels to the creatures situation, like Safie, about alienation and not being accepted into society, further illustrating the creature’s distress. Even though the creature's main goal was to fit in with society, his curiosity only shows him that he will never truly be a part of this human world.




Monday, October 24, 2016

Frankenstein's Monster = Curious George?!?!?!


     After Frankenstein's monster comes alive, I can't help but imagine how curious he must be of this strange world he is forced into. If I were to be placed into some random alternate timeline I definitely know that I would try to discover as many new things as possible which has to be what the creature is also feeling. The worst part is that Frankenstein just ignores the creature and doesn't help guide his curiosity of this peculiar world he is placed into. The creature also doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of society which only makes his attempt to divulge into his curiosity even harder. I believe that Frankenstein's creature is exactly like Curious George. George is monkey who doesn't really fit with his  city surroundings and just wants to discover more and more about this astonishing place. While exploring George gets becomes very mischievous which is a parallel to the creature. All the creature wants to do is try to understand this unfamiliar era and while doing so he may have just murdered William. The creature's curiosity may have gotten a little out of control. But really what is to blame, the creature's curiosity or the lack of responsibility of Frankenstein himself. 

Two Line Poem?



- In a Station of the Metro

       So I was just cruising the internet looking for anything that interested me, and I happened to run into a two line poem that somehow is actually meaningful and symbolic. At first, I thought this must be a joke and decided to move on, but my curiosity got the best of me. I mean, who wouldn't be interested in a two line poem. After reading it, I understood that the author, Ezra Pound, was trying to describe a metro station that on the outside seems to a dreary and mysterious place, since it was symbolized as a "wet, black bough". But, the people are also described as flowers which counters the bleak description of the station and reveals that this Metro is actually not that menacing. I still couldn't get over the fact of how short the poem was, so I went on to find the era it originated from and it turned out to be the modernism era. This poem now made complete sense to me. This era was full of the improving technology that people had to adapt to, and a place like a metro station filled with the chaotic bustling of people could appear intimidating to people. Pound is able to illustrate to the readers that this improving technology is not all bad by introducing the image of people as flowers into his poem. I was very intrigued about the significant meaning behind such a short poem and I hope you were just as curious as I was about such an interesting thing.