Loss of Innocence

Hey y’all it’s a me Mario(no, not really it’s Harry F’n Potter actually)I’m back and taking a closer look at my roots. Uh huh, you heard right, straight back to magic, mythical beasts, and terrifying enemies for us. To be completely honest I only chose this because I really, really l...

Innocence itself is a truly delicate and and easily breakable aspect of life that resonates in each and every one of us. However, the moment we lose our innocence, it is impossible to reverse the process and revert back to our simple, naive state of mind. When the idea of the loss of innocence arises, we automatically connect it to childhood. As a child, we experience the most genuine and innocent ideas by which we understand the world to be pure and gentle. However, this percep...

I know we've been talking about innocence nonstop for the past couple blogs but in Frankenstein its such and integral and, to tell the truth, intriguing aspect of the novel. All throughout the first four letters and the following ten chapters we see innocence in a variety of forms but also how it is lost, twisted, and torn asunder. But, I'll just be going aver a couple of my favorites.

First, we've got Walton's ...

Why do we do what we do when we don't understand something? We always strive for perfection and try to comprehend what we want to learn, but what do we do when we can't understand how something works?

We do the opposite.

Doing the opposite of something you are trying to learn opens your mind up to new possibilities never even touched upon before. When we use these tactics and strategies to solve problems, we are able to gain a fuller understaning of how th...

Bonjour, people of this Earth!

It is I, Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen. Today is Tuesday so let’s go on an adventure into the depths of the novel Frankenstein.

Loss of innocence is a reoccurring theme in literature (Ex Machina, Lord Of the flies, etc.). But what does it mean to lose one’s innocence? In literature, it usually means that a character has ended their childhood and becomes an adult. Their ascension into adulthood is signified by an event that forces the ch...