Category: Communication

George Davis – Analytic Writing

Beez

The three most distinctive noses to our ears have to be the scrapping on chalk of a blackboard; a babies cry and the the buzzing of bees! However, despite how annoying these sounds may be, without them being known to man, man itself would not be known. We strive from education, reproduce and live on through our children and stay alive due to bees, yet one link is this chain…is breaking.

Biodiversity is the web of life, it is the term used to describe all the Earth’s natural process, ecosystems, genetic & cultural diversities and the connection between all species. we rely on other ecosystems for food, water, shelter, drugs and even the moderation of floods and droughts too. It is this web upon which we are an intrinsic cardinal part and on which we as a race are dependant yet, we as a race are putting all others at great risk. Consider it to be a threaded carpet, if one of the threads holding the carpet together is pulled through, the whole carpet falls apart, and currently we are pulling on several threads in the non-flying carpet of life. Bees are a good example of the one of the many links us humans are breaking.

Bees are vital to the pollination of 1/3 if all our food we seek growth from each day, there are other pollinators in the world such as birds and bats, and we could pollinate crops ourselves but this would be an expensive and virtually ineffective process as bees are the worlds most crucial pollinator. They also happen to be the only insect that produces food eaten directly by man. Who doesn’t love honey?

There are currently 25 species in the UK, however, there used to be double this number. So why are bees dying and what can we do about it? We first discovered the problem through Colony Collapse Disorder, climate change, pollution, habitat loss, iI’m noticing a pattern, this is harm we are doing!

So what can we do about it? The government needs to look into the impacts this could have in the future and discover further, what we could do on a wider scale to help them. On a local front, you can all start by spreading the world, most are blissfully oblivious to the doings we are doing to the bees and the catastrophic doing they will do to us in return. By planting trees/plants bees love, they will live on, finding habitats and creating life for example, cornflowers, poppies, lavender and other shrubs, all of which will also colour your garden. You could even consider keeping bees, which is an interesting and rewarding hobby for all ages, which throws in the bonus of honey. when you see a wasp, feel free to kill it, but bees do not sting as they will die, so when going to kill a bee, don’t. Leave the bees be.

1. We have an increase of tension in this scene as we see a development of hatred and disgust build up between the creation and Victor. We serve this through this example: ‘Cursed creator’. On reading this journal, the corporation’s slings as we see grow, these feelings of hate that were building in previous paragraphs are now strengthened and confirmed as th  monster illustrates at the beginning of the extract.

2. He plans to sit an interview and do it all in a formal manner whereby he allows the family, he wants to be accepted into, device his fate as he is unsure of it. He is insecure and he is anxious as to want the family will do to him, but he does prepare for this knoeing they could turn the door on him.

3. As time goes on, the levels of hate and disgust begin to build Bahia st teacher and the slowly begin to isolate themselves from either despite him being his ‘dad’ or creator.

4. He has been given the chance for the reader to actually take into account the creations side of the story, and we begin to see that he did not set out to be monstrous but that nature has developed him to be this way. He hasn’t had the nurture from his creator, he has been left to fend for himself, disabling him to not be what he is. Shelley use language features to show this and for example rhetorical questions that make us think in the shoes of him? (It should quite easily be a her…I’ll go with ‘it’).

5. She might do this to express the clique of: ‘there always being two sides to every story’. However I see it more as proposing a fair trail, the reader acting as the jury, to make their final decision on whether the creature is actually a monster. Unlike before, when Justine was unfairly accused, the reader is given the decision on the monstrousness of the creature. We are reminded of the past events so we do not rush to conclude a judgement on the monster. This, I think is why Shelley does not give us the chance to make  our minds up quickly, I think that we will only be bale to draw final conclusions on this at the end of the book.

1.

‘Superhuman speed’ Superman is not only a human, he is an ultra fast being of amazingness. So comparing the creation to Superman is somewhat a compliment and connoting that with its speed, means its really fast as superman can fly! In order to fly, you need a lot of speed…I’m no physist but?

2.

‘Fallen angel’ the devil was a fallen angel and this phrase connotes the devil and hell. This is a play on words which takes a skillful mind to understand and put together making it a more difficult book and philosophy.

3.

‘Devil!’ This adds eempathis and the disgust that Victor has of his creation. Victor doesn’t even know the creation yet he prejudges him and he assumes him to be the killer he though he was.

4.

1.

‘The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, desending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.’

‘The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly 2 hours in crossing it.’

2.

In extract A Shelly uses pathetic fallency to foreshadow. For example an ‘uneven surface’ connotes the bumpy road ahead for Victor. The struggle he will have to go through and endure will be difficult and the uneven surface connoted that.

Summary.

The monster describes its early days after being created: running from Victor’s apartment, seeing light and dark and feeling hunger and cold, and discovering fire and its ability to both cook and burn.

Wherever the monster goes it’s appearance terrifies humans, so it decides to avoid them. Eventually it finds a place to hide in the darkness near the side of a cottage. Inside he observes a man, woman, and an old man and watches them at their daily, ordinary tasks.

Themes.

The theme of nature’s awesomeness, of the connection between human moods and natural surroundings, resurfaces in the monster’s childlike reaction to spring. Nature proves as important to the monster as it is to Victor: as the temperature rises and the winter ice melts, the monster takes comfort in a suddenly green and blooming world, glorying in nature’s creation when he cannot rejoice in his own. For a moment, he is able to forget his own ugliness and unnaturalness.

Key quotes.

‘However miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.’

Summary.

Victor takes a trip to a nearby mountain and glacier on Mount Montanvert to refresh his tortured soul. While on the glacier, the monster confronts his maker. Victor seems ready to engage in a combat to the death, but the monster convinces Victor to listen to his story. The two go to the monster’s hut on the mountain, and the monster begins to tell his tale.

Analysis.

At Chamonix, Victor continues to feel despair. He again tries to escape it through nature: he climbs to the peak of a mountain called Montanvert. But just as the view begins to lift his spirits, Victor sees the monster. He curses it and wishes for its destruction. He prejudges the monster as all the monster wants to do is talk, but as Victor is convinced he is a murder he doesn’t want to.

Another theme is isolation. The monster admits it took revenge, but claims that Victor destroyed its innocence by isolating it. This theme is prevalent as it behind the murder or Justine.

Key quotes.

‘All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.’

Narrative Summary.

Victor finds no relief at the end of Justine’s trial leaving him haunted by the thoughts of how he ruined so many lives. He cannot sleep and results in sinking into a deep depression from which he cannot escape. He leaves and goes to try boating on Lake Geneva and a trip into the Swiss Mountains. Hepaddles out and just drifts. He escapes to the Chamounix valley region to rest and recover.

We feel slightlyremorseful for Victor in this chapter as things havent turned out how he even dreamed of invising them to pan out. The beast he created wasn’t suppose to be a beast, mearly a friend to stop him getting lonely and depressed, yet it has proved to do the opposite as he falls into a deep depression.

I think that Victor was not a monster, until he let Justine take the wrap for something she didn’t do. She was condemmed to death due to Victor wanting to keep his secret quite, this is a monstrous thing to do.

Theme.

In this text, pathetic valency ispresent as Mary Shelly expresses the emotions of Victor through the weather.

Isolation is another key theme in this chapter as Victor isolates himself to keep his secret safe. Not having to face anyone allows to keep quiet. This is another monstrous act that Victor does.

Key Quotes & Explanations.

‘I wept bitterly, and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness.’

English Period 5

7/11/14

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