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Though Victor believes that the monster was "born" evil, the monster argues that he is a product of his environment. He says that he has become evil because he was neglected by his maker and shunned from all humankind because of his appearance. This struggle between nature versus nature is seen throughout the novel.

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In the novel Hamlet, the characters Rozencrantz and Guildenstern exemplify traits of betrayal by spying on Hamlet while posing as his friends. Gertrude also represents betrayal by marrying Claudius so shortly after the death of King Hamlet.

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Pi goes against some of his fundament beliefs in both killing and consuming other animals to survive. Richard Parker refrains from killing Pi, after pi has shown he will keep richard parker fed and alive, also likely in part also due to self preservation. Mary

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Fear motivates the actions of the monster as he encounters people following their initial reaction to him. Fear also motivates the many of Frankenstein's decisions following the creation of his monster. From fear for oneself to fear for one's lved ones, fear is especially prominent in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Mary

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Throughout the story of Hamlet: power, relationships, and lives themselves are lost. Hamlet grieves his father. Horatio loses Hamlet. Ophelia looses her father. Laertes loses Ophelia. Losses snowball from one death to many. Mary

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Orange Juice is used as a symbol for Christ-on-the-Cross, Pi's mother, and the Virgin Mary. These symbols can also be used to represent Pi's ability to associate Orange Juice as his mother.

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How does someone's childhood affect the way they become? In Frankenstein's case, his lack of a parental figure as he was created and getting older was a significant factor in how he ended up.

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in life of pi he keeps his faith throughout most of the journey and it is very impressive. even with all of the bad that has happened he still believed

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Frankenstein's creature is rejected by humanity. Thus, he becomes malicious.

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Frankenstein is more of a call to compassion, as the reader sees from the outside looking in on how Victor's lack of compassion causes him to create this monster.

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In the life of Pi, Pi shows great courage when he had to tame Richard Parker. While training him he was often threatened, he still was able to overcome his fear. -Dylan

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Hamlet can't make up his mind about his course of action. This causes the central mental conflict in the play.

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In life of Pi, the importance of truth is questioned at the end. Pi argues that the Japanese investigators should accept his decision to take a more comforting story as true instead of reliving the trauma of watching his mother's murder.

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In life of pie, one of the main themes Pi speaks about how he would not have been able to survive his time at sea if Richard Parker was not there with him.

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In life of pi, hunger is a main theme that is depicted through Pi's hunger for food and water but also  spirituality.

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Pi and Richard Parker rely on each other for survival; one could not survive without the other.

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Life of Pi is mainly about survival. On the surface it seems it is only about physical survival because of the Bengal Tiger as well as the other animals on board, but it is actually the mental survival and the mental fortitude necessary to survive the situation that Pi found himself in.

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Pi has to fight for survival as he slowly goes crazy from lack of food, water, and other nutrients.

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Pi is rational to survive in the open waters, but on land, he "loses" his rationality in order to follow multiple religions. One example is him taming Richard Parker with a whistle. Also, Tim is cool.

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One of the overall themes in Frankenstein is common ethics. The story deals with everything from the ethics behind creating life, to the ethical decision of leaving your creation behind. Most of the conflicts in this story come from the degrading of Victors mental health because of inner contrasting ethics.

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The theme of finding a balance in parenting (overparenting and underparenting) is evident in Frankenstein. Because Victor was pampered and raised in a very sheltered environment, his initial exposures to the dark sides of life inspire fear and flight. When he creates the monster, his decision to not nurture this "child" of his arguably leads to many of the fatal consequences in the novel. Shelley clearly is examining the difficulty of parenting in these ways.

Dhyana Mishra

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The algae island in life of Pi provides a structured metaphor for the after life and how engagement with it can placate the significant stress of everyday life

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Frankenstein serves as a metaphorical mother to the monster and fails in doing so by providing a lack of care which sets the monster up to act out in a very significant way

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The monster argues that Frankenstein did not nurture him enough, so he is bad

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Claudius, Guildenstern, and Roseincrantz all betray hamlet

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The overarching theme of water as a symbol of salvation in Life of Pi furthers the argument that Yan Martel makes about religion

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Hamlet has an internal conflict related to his maternal attraction which may drive some of his motivation to kill cladius in the wake of his fathers death

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In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein decides to create a creature in his lab. Unbeknownst to the monster, Frankenstein is prejudiced and runs away from his creation due to its horrifying appearance. Victor is plagued by the monster's physical features and is unable to decipher the monster's kind personality because he abandoned it before caring for it.

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frankenstein when encountered with an issue, he tends to run away from his problem in hopes that it will go away. as the story goes on he changes and wants to face his problems but it is too late when he realizes this.

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Although Victor Frankstein found a way to make a creature come alive through the mending of different corpses into one, he did not accept the creatures appearence, his own creation, and wish it never existed. It would go on to kill everyone that he loves and others that didnt accept it for what it was.

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The theme of the negative progression of science is displayed with Victor using unethical scientific means to genetically engineer the monster. The work is a criticism of what can happen when scientific boundaries are not set and genetic engineering goes unchecked. - raina w

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He wanted to avenge his father but he was fearful of killing his uncle. He had multiple chances but talked himself out of it like when his uncle was nealing at a pew he said that he should not be able to pray away his sins before death because hamlet wanted him to go to hell. His thoughts prevented action making him stagnent in his turmoil.

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Victor Frankenstein is a extremely ambitious man who is eager to do something great. This extreme ambition causes victor to look past many ethical issues, and this leads to disaster.

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In Hamlet, all of the major female characters end up dying. Hamlet's mother is poisoned, while Ophelia ends up dying because of the way that society has treated women. Feminism is a common theme in Hamlet and Shakespeare uses the deaths of these women to highlight the way women were viewed in society at this time.

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Revenge
The theme of revenge consumes both victor and his creation making them both monsters with tunnel vision to kill each other.

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Revenge is a theme in hamlet with the plot revolving around how Hamlet will kill Cladius in response to his own fathers death. This motive of revenge however only leads to destruction and death around him. Revenge drives Hamlet mad and leads to mental instability. raina w

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perfectionism.
Victor had to have the perfect wife, the right social class of friends, and turned away from his creation once seeing the monstrosity he created.

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Life of Pi takes a unique perspective on humanity, using Pi's journey and changes to show what aspects of humanity are innate and enduring. For example, Pi abandons his vegetarianism and even expresses declining empathy for life, indicating that, to an extent, the book argues that much of our moral guidelines are not innate or inherent to being human but are instead taught. However, by demonstrating Pi's constant devotion to his family and religion, the book does advocate for a universal desire for spiritual or familial connection.

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Fear
Pi is in a constant fight against fear throughout part two. If he doesn't combat it he will surely die. He might die anyways though but he is forced to face his fears.

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History is written by the winners is a theme amongst the life of pi. Pi goes through a extremely traumatic event, and is forced to do terrible things in order to save himself. When he is finally saved, he tells the story in a much happier and easier to consume story.

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Through the rough and strenuous journey that affected Pi mentally, psychologically, and physically, he never gave up and believed that he could make it.

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I feel like perception is a major theme in Life of Pi, as the central point of discussion in the story is the respective legitimacy of both stories told--both the story of Pi with animals and the investigator's story of the regular individuals.-Dylan

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While knowledge can be helpful in society, it can also create mass destruction and chaos. Because of Frankenstein's thirst for knowledge, he creates the Monster, which only brings death and destruction.

Elle Jacobsen

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Frankenstein creates a monster that kills his family and friends all because he was in the pursuit of gaining glory and knowledge. His ambition caused him much pain. Just as Robert Walton's ambition to go through the north pole would have caused him pain if he kept going. - Anissa

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Life of Pi is a crazy text full of discussion of morality, faith, survival, and the doubt of what constitutes truth.
Ty

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man vs nature.
he had to survive on a boat alone for most of his journey struggling with storms, sharks, and eating to survive. Having to kill fish and other things to survive and drinking his own urine.

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Due to traumatic experiences, one's form of truth may be distorted in order to help cope with the hardships. For example, in this novel, Pi believes that he survived on a boat with a 450 pound tiger. He believes this is the truth and reality.

Elle Jacobsen

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In the Life of Pi, faith is a substantial theme which is the driving force in the story. Faith is the belief of an idea or something. With faith, Pi is able to survive being stranded on sea.

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Procrastination
Hamlet constantly puts off and avoids killing Claudius even though he has plenty of great opportunities

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While on his journey, Pi stays strong in his faith to his three religions. He states that without God, he would not have survived on the boat with Richard Parker. He spends his days praying, and focusing on his three religions.

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faith - many biblical allusions to show the importance of keeping faith to persevere through life  -raina 

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faith - many biblical allusions to show the importance of keeping faith to persevere through life  -raina 