ROLE OF WOMEN DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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   VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ‘S CREATURE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY

    Inside our minds, we all look for analysis; to stop every thought and dream’s stages. When this is impossible, contradictions and all kind of psychic movements appear; the beauty of the mind is not the ability to forget but to conceal darkness within itself; and to go deeper down towards our souls, to seed something else; maybe a ghost whose only job is to torture us. As an image, we all seem to wander around a fantasy world trying to find tales, stories, rumours of the inexplicable:  the fiction. Regarding this, we also convey the impression to be compelled by our human nature to seek what we cannot find for it transmits a profound secret that lies inside ourselves, a full mystery, one that cannot be paid for.

  Frankenstein and sickness are also related to the Industrial Revolution. In this industrial age, diseases as Cholera and Typhoid took many lives.  These diseases appeared because of the lack of hygiene and the little knowledge of sanity care; they were caused by the conditions in what people lived and worked. They were specially spread through the water. However, the main killer in the cities was the Tuberculosis.

   The famous novel “Frankenstein”  introduced pseudoscience into the horror genre. He created an eight feet tall creature out of old body parts and strange chemicals, animated by a mysterious spark. Victor became famous and fascinated with the secret of life, discovered it and with his knowledge about modern science he brought a monster to life. Victor practised pseudoscience or a creation incorrectly presented as scientific but it did not add a valid scientific method, could not be really tested . Shelley used elements from nature to make the story frightened, like a  dark forest that made the readers really know about  what was going to happen.  

   In the book Frankenstein ‘s creature is rejected by everyone who sees him , even by his own creator. Since that, he is not welcomed in the cities and villages, so he starts living in the wood. Later, he finds a family who lives in a cottage and decides to help them because of their poor conditions, by ceasing to steal their food , and too many things more. This is one of the positive aspects of his personality we can see in the book, but later on, when the family  sees the monster, they decided to leave the cottage. It is debatable whether the creature was a monster from the start or whether he became one because of the way he was treated.

     In conclusion, Victor’s mind showed the  weak side of a man who had been once glorified by his genius, and also the lack of ability to face the responsibility of his acts for creating a monster and that the creature killed people he loved.   Furthermore, he took several days to recover from illness and it would mean that his body and mind needed time to recover from the shock of what was going on. Personally, I think  Shelley may be expressing that if you do not  act in a good way, you would not be healthy in a mentally or physically way; just because everything in life has a price, and their consequences too.  Furthermore, the book’ context was a time of changing and many people were frightened of them . As a result, this influenced their attitude towards Victor’s works. We can say that today’s society is not welcomed to a creature like Frankenstein with an open mind.

A TALE OF TWO CITIES :  SACRIFICE

 In this novel called  “A tale of two cities “ one of the major elements  is the sacrifice. It is really the most required one needed to achieve happiness. It is made by human life through different kind of actions such as giving up something you love or just giving everything you want to get something else, or to offer help to others. In this novel, there are a lot of acts of sacrificies . However, the most important one was  about Carton , the person who gave everything he had.

   Dr. Manette is one of the main characters in the story, who sacrified a lot of things in his life for  Lucie because the only thing he really wanted was Lucie to marry the man she loved . Also,  Dr. Manette did many things to save Darnay from death. These two were his only interests.  Although Manette knew Darnay was an Evermonde,  he sacrified his own feelings for Lucie ‘s ones.

  As I said before, the last sacrifice was Carton's. Sydney Carton is a lawyer who has had every chance in his  life to be successful but somehow, he ended having a different fate. He believes there is no option to improve his condition. Carton's feelings for Lucie Manette were clear since the very beginning of the novel. One particular day, he tells Lucie: “For you, and any dear to you, I would do anything…I would make any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you”. Indeed, some time later, after Darnay (Lucie’s husband) was unfairly imprisoned and sentenced to death, Carton decided to take advantage of his similarity  to him and exchange places so that he would die instead.

   The  noticeable  reason why Carton made this sacrifice is because he would do anything for her. Carton  knew  that thanks to  his sacrifice, Lucie could have  a nice  life with her husband and her daughter. The importance of his death is that it brings life and happiness to other people. The cost of life is sometimes strong and heavy,  but he is prepared to do that for the person he loves. This act of sacrifice allows Carton doing a relevant and unforgettable action before dying.

                                                                                                                          

ESSAY : Britain under rule of a mentally diseased King?

1. watch the film “the madness of the King”
2. write an argumentative essay on: Britain under rule of a mentally diseased King?
3. I will check the progress
4. Ready to publish on

BRITAIN UNDER RULE OF A MENTALLY DISEASED KING

      The film ´The Madness of the King¨ deals with the true story of king George III, who ruled Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820. At the beginning of the film, the king, chief authority over the people and the country, is presented as a presumptuous, arrogant man who does what he is told by the Lord chancellor. Apart from that, he does not show sympathy for anybody, and people is obliged to obey his commands and listen to every word he says. His wife, who gave birth to his fifteen children, is a devoted wife who truly loves and cares for him and wants to stay by his side when his health gets weak. His elder son, the Prince of Wales, is an aggressive and ambitious man who is absolutely determined to succeed to the throne.

The royal family's wealth is authentically represented in the film by the huge and elegant castle, the stunning carriages, the classical music concerts the magnificent clothes and the hundreds of servants who spent their lives to serve the king all day long.

     The fact that he had lost the colonies, now called The United States, distressed George very much. He felt absolutely displeased and as days went by he began to show symptoms of a strange disease, which included physical and mental disorders such as nausea and insomnia, strong stomach aches and hallucinations which made him act very strangely. The medical practises were very primitive at that time of history and doctors made the king go through painful physical examinations which did not help much.

  As a result, he was thought to be demented and incapable of rational thought. Consequently he was stranded and  fiercely forced to recover under the violent consequences of being restrained if he refused his food, if he claimed he had no appetite, if he swore, etc. At that moment, he  was longer being treated as a king but as a mad person. During that period of  time the throne of England was pending and his son's desire for power kept rising.

  Finally, after being away in recovery for some time and despite the attempts of his son, the Prince of Wales, of  removing his ill father from the throne, king George III, with the assistance, guidance and cooperation of his people, managed to take up the reins of the government and recover the people's trust.

  It was later found out that the king was suffering from porphyria, a physical disease that affects the nervous system.

   We strongly believe that countries cannot be ruled by a mentally diseased person since there are many important decisions to make that require absolute competence and rationalism.

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Compare and contrast the two views of the Glorious Revolution (Essay)

The history has been always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history. It is true that official histories frequently have the advantage that the author or authors have been given access to archives, interview subjects and other primary sources which would be closed or inaccessible to independent historians. However, because of the necessarily close relationship between author and subject, such works may be partisan in tone, and to lack historical objectivity. That way, the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 can be told from two different views, so taking into account who wrote the article, we will find similarities and differences about the same event.

The Glorious Revolution is defined by the Parliament as a peaceful war, yet Edward Vallance, from the BBC, said that they ignore a series of events. According to the Whig account, the events of the revolution were bloodless. But Edward said: “Although bloodshed in England was limited, the revolution was only secured in Ireland and Scotland by force and with much loss of life”.

The Whig view of the Glorious Revolution is simply that it was a triumph for the purity of constitutional law over an outrageous attempt at its perversion, a reaffirmation of the liberties of the English people. However, others have analysed the Bill of Rights and they have revealed that in several aspects it is indeed a rather conservative document. It is a declaratory Act, reasserting ancient rights and restoring the monarchy with limitations which differed in no major or significant way from the traditional ones.

This revolution has been seen as a peaceful way in which Parliament asserted its rights over the monarchy in 1688, while the BBC describes it as an event that converts England in a merely a satellite state, under the control of an all-powerful Catholic monarch.

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