Loss of Innocence

As we view the theme of loss of innocence over a larger variety of works in literature and other areas in the world, we see it’s appearance in many different forms. We’ve already established this ideal, which is why “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman provides us with a very unique outlet for these ideals. Now allow me to pose my main question about this story:

Is Jane Sane?

Other than the fact that my question rhyme...

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a roller coaster ride of a story. First off we have Jane, the heroine of our story. She and her husband have rented out a mansion for 3 months so that she can rest to cure her illness. Inside her room covering the walls is this ghastly yellow wallpaper that drives her to insanity. In cl...

Hello, hello! Number Six back again with one more blogabout Frankenstein.  Although this may be a bit out of place for our website, I want to address how manipulation plays a key role in the novel.  Technically, this manipulation drives thenovel and therefore the characters' loss of innocence, so we're all good here.  On one side of the manipulation we have the creature, while on the other, we have none other than Victor Frankenstein himself.  In this case, both characters...

I’m getting real tired of all this talk about innocence, ugh. Anyway, once again on a screen near you, Harry F’n Potter! Alright, now, back on topic, loss of innocence. What I want to address this time is how this stereotypically “bad” occurrence can have effects that are not totally adverse. Usually, a “loss of innocence” connotates the lost of some type of purity or ignorance that allowed for a more idealistic, I gues...

We spend our partitioned lives, and a brevity of them, in AP Literature finding new ideas to talk about and expand upon. We look into the depths and far-reaching ends of these characters and analyze our different themes till there is no more to discuss about.

But what does that mean, in terms of our themes, for us?

As loss of innocence was my group's assigned theme, we strove to find the various places where our char...

Bonjour! It is Tuesday again. It’s also spring break and while I could be napping and lazing about, the only thing on my mind was Frankenstein. I know, I know, a teenage girl such as myself should have more things on my mind other than literary classics, but well, whatever. In class on Thursday, in the fishbowl, there were a lot of great commentary about loss of innocence in the novel as well as other things. However, I wanted to elaborate on something that was brought up that I found i...

So we have reached the end of the book, and we have also reached the end of both Victor's and the monster's innocence. Ironically, both characters lose their innocence in very similar processes and have their loss of innocence thrust upon them rather than losing it through their own realizations and actions.

With the monster, we see his complete loss of innocence arrive in chapter 20 through the discovery that Victor has destroyed the female monster he was in the process o...

After Henry’s death Victor is near inconsolable and is thought to be mad by the majority of people who interact with him, principally his father. He rants and raves, “‘I am not mad...the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations,’ (Shelley 176) blaming himself for everything, rightly so in my opinion, and falls int...

"I've been feeling under pressure... I've been feeling under pressure..." - Logic

What's the difference between our struggles and those of our parents? We often hear stories about how our ancestors fled great wars, apartheids, and unfavorable conditions to come to the United States, where we now reside. The generic, "Do you know why we came to this country? To give you a better future." In the bay area, a place filled with heavy diversity and international aquaintence, we a...

As in our fishbowls. we often discussed the very important factor of time. "When did he go to college, When did he die, When did he create the monster." These events all have factual evidence and can be pinpointed to a certain location, but when does the monster truly lose his innocence? We've had entire fishbowl discussions about the main point where the monster loses its innocence, and for that matter many points where it loses its innocence. That's where we get to the real discourse about ...