Revisions to certain assignments:
What I’ve Learned
January 12:
After the class discussion, I found I had touched on a lot of major points throughout the reading, but left out the most important factor. Aylmer wanted a perfect life. He had the prestige, the fame, and the money. What was not perfect was his wife. To explain this, he said:
‘Ah, upon another face perhaps it might,…‘but never on yours. No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect to me from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.’
Because his wife was not perfect, Aylmer’s life could not be perfect.
January 19:
I stand by my statement Walton is trying to find out about mankind and its ability to adapt and survive. He gives his reason as trying to discover a passage way to get through the North Pole, but what he is really doing is testing his men to the brink of their determination and their ability. I believe Walton and Frankenstein had similar but ultimately different motives for touring the world. Victor was obsessed with the creation of life, as he made the monster which tore his life apart. He was learning it was much harder to be a creator than he thought.
January 26:
Language has not been a primary tool for communication for as long as I thought. However, from the creation or evolution of human kind, some kind of communication has been in existence. It must be taught to newborns (I am including the monster in this definition of newborns). This is evident, like I wrote in my blog, when the monster says “I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them.” Language is an evolving idea, but in order for it to keep evolving, it must be taught to each new creature. Frankenstein is not living up to his end of the burden.
February 2:
Making robots that would be able to replace humans is a lofty goal I don’t think we’ll ever be able to achieve. Human beings would never allow it to happen. Frankly, I don’t believe robots can be made to fully imitate human beings. There are too many mechanical and electrical advances we would have to make in a short amount of time to make human-like robots fully operational in our lifetime. Also, without the addition of emotions such as compassion, justice, and many others, robots lack the mental capacity of humans to understand and assess different situations.
February 14:
Following the yellow brick road, in my opinion, is a metaphor for the path of courage. As Dorothy walks through it, she faces many challenges and has to overcome them. She must find the wizard, help her friends, and still get home in one piece. When she encounters the wizard, she must have the courage to uncover him for what he really is—a shy, lonely man who
April 9:
Dynamite is the perfect example to use to show the correlation of anger and its consequences. However, dynamite, like people, doesn’t just explode. At some point, you must have lit the fuse for the other person to be mad at you. The explosion comes after the fuse has expired. This can go along with the “anger=tree” metaphor in the sense that it allows your anger to grow and expand before you explode. The explosion will happen and it is magnificent, but I respectfully disagree with Professor Mandell as I believe the question forgets entirely the role of the fuse. My interpretation is more literal than the question asks us to be, but I think it is merited as just another way of looking at the metaphor.
What I’ve Learned
January 12:
After the class discussion, I found I had touched on a lot of major points throughout the reading, but left out the most important factor. Aylmer wanted a perfect life. He had the prestige, the fame, and the money. What was not perfect was his wife. To explain this, he said:
‘Ah, upon another face perhaps it might,…‘but never on yours. No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect to me from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.’
Because his wife was not perfect, Aylmer’s life could not be perfect.
January 19:
I stand by my statement Walton is trying to find out about mankind and its ability to adapt and survive. He gives his reason as trying to discover a passage way to get through the North Pole, but what he is really doing is testing his men to the brink of their determination and their ability. I believe Walton and Frankenstein had similar but ultimately different motives for touring the world. Victor was obsessed with the creation of life, as he made the monster which tore his life apart. He was learning it was much harder to be a creator than he thought.
January 26:
Language has not been a primary tool for communication for as long as I thought. However, from the creation or evolution of human kind, some kind of communication has been in existence. It must be taught to newborns (I am including the monster in this definition of newborns). This is evident, like I wrote in my blog, when the monster says “I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them.” Language is an evolving idea, but in order for it to keep evolving, it must be taught to each new creature. Frankenstein is not living up to his end of the burden.
February 2:
Making robots that would be able to replace humans is a lofty goal I don’t think we’ll ever be able to achieve. Human beings would never allow it to happen. Frankly, I don’t believe robots can be made to fully imitate human beings. There are too many mechanical and electrical advances we would have to make in a short amount of time to make human-like robots fully operational in our lifetime. Also, without the addition of emotions such as compassion, justice, and many others, robots lack the mental capacity of humans to understand and assess different situations.
February 14:
Following the yellow brick road, in my opinion, is a metaphor for the path of courage. As Dorothy walks through it, she faces many challenges and has to overcome them. She must find the wizard, help her friends, and still get home in one piece. When she encounters the wizard, she must have the courage to uncover him for what he really is—a shy, lonely man who
April 9:
Dynamite is the perfect example to use to show the correlation of anger and its consequences. However, dynamite, like people, doesn’t just explode. At some point, you must have lit the fuse for the other person to be mad at you. The explosion comes after the fuse has expired. This can go along with the “anger=tree” metaphor in the sense that it allows your anger to grow and expand before you explode. The explosion will happen and it is magnificent, but I respectfully disagree with Professor Mandell as I believe the question forgets entirely the role of the fuse. My interpretation is more literal than the question asks us to be, but I think it is merited as just another way of looking at the metaphor.
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