https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1 Essay notes en-us 2018-12-10 12:15:32 UTC 2024-07-26 17:17:39 UTC hello@padlet.com jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874545 By reading Frankenstein, King Lear, and Brave New World and analyzing the characters Victor, Goneril, Regan, and Edmund, and Mustapha Mond, the reader is better able to empathize with characters and understand how greed for wealth, power, or knowledge leads to corruption and destruction within themselves, their family and friends, or their society through their actions. ]]> 2018-12-10 12:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874545 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874580 Victor Frankenstein's desire for knowledge and creation of the creature in Frankenstein tests the boundaries of nature and man and creates major conflict within his community.
(test what man already knows/push the boundaries and limitations of life  --> what it means to be human = curiosity and ambition)]]> 2018-12-10 12:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874580 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874607 In King Lear by William Shakespeare, Goneril, Regan, and Edmund's selfish thirst for wealth and power push them to betray and destroy their families. ]]> 2018-12-10 12:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874607 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874657 Mustapha Mond's greed for security in Brave New World leads him to betray his old independent-minded, scientific self and conform and commit to the values of the World State society.
Society's greed for security in Brave New World leads Mustapha Mond to betray his old independent-minded, scientific self and conform ... ]]> 2018-12-10 12:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874657 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874743 1. How Victor's creating a monster/thirst for that knowledge and rejection of his creation results in the destruction the monster spreads
     - lying to society about his creation/not telling anyone and not taking responsibility
     - cottagers (see how one man's greed/Victor affects others)
     - killing family and friends]]> 2018-12-10 12:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874743 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874821 1. Goneril and Regan betraying their father
- taking his power and money and abandoning/mistreating him
2. Edmund betraying his brother
     - lying about letter to father
     - lying to Edgar about father's feelings]]> 2018-12-10 12:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874821 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874902 1. controllers of the society keeping social order (conformity and stability are more valued than emotion and individual freedom )
     - Mustapha censors new ideas and and controls a totalitarian state to achieve stability and happiness as opposed to a life filled with emotions, human relations, and individual expression
- Ch. 16: Mustapha Mond's reasons for the way society is now
(Never Let Me Go: how they treat clones in their society (controlling the clones lives))]]> 2018-12-10 12:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874902 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874985 2018-12-10 12:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312874985 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312875014 2018-12-10 12:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312875014 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312875093 2018-12-10 12:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312875093 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312875880 2018-12-10 12:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312875880 megryan https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312959962 2018-12-10 15:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/312959962 jshutzberg https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/313602289 2018-12-11 20:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jshutzberg/6y3ct9gkm3b1/wish/313602289