Essays on Justine

Introduction

When growing up, my mother always insisted that I should always THINK before speaking. You may think that I have poor grammar due to the fact that I have capitalized every word in ‘think’ but far from it, it is correct. I am grammatically correct. You see THINK is an acronym. My mother always insisted that my words should always inspire and motivate and not discourage people. She therefore used the acronym THINK to gauge my sentiments. Are my words truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary and kind? However, it seems that very people have forgotten this acronym as most of ...

Frankenstein is the main character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s gothic novel also known as Modern Prometheus. She is influenced by ideas and a dream from a summer holiday in Switzerland. During the summer holiday, she and her companions had shared and read German ghost stories, and then one of them, Bryan Lord suggested that they have a competition to see who would come up with the best horror story (Mary 15). One of them had suggested that corpses could also be re-animated, this brought to Shelley’s mind the idea of galvanism. During one of the nights she ...

Monsters are creatures that everyone is told that lurks in the darkness of the night. They are hideous, grotesque creatures and would kill you as soon as they look at you. It is something inhuman that has no regard for life, life, and anything good in the world. Mary Shelly brought to life a monster in her novel Frankenstein. She lures the audience into believing that the monster Victor Frankenstein created is the true horror of the novel. However, if one were to examine the deeds of Victor Frankenstein he would take the honor of being the real monster ...

Physicians who provide healthcare to patients from a different culture may face communication problems, because any medical information that the physician would find necessary to share with the patient would be filtered through the beliefs, values, and traditions of the patient’s culture. The impact of cross-cultural communication may not be as great in the course of routine health care, but it can become critical when informed consent is required for life-saving therapeutic procedures. In the Case Study of Justine, a refugee from Laos is having a difficult time reconciling her culture’s religious beliefs with the healthcare need of her ...