Victor Frankenstein’s Unlawful Pursuits and William Godwin’s Stance On War

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein states that “if the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then the study is certainly unlawful” (50). The consequences that arise from Frankenstein’s statement have similarities …

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Herbalism

In my English class, we are reading a memoir by Tara Westover, called Educated. The memoir mentions that the narrator’s family does not believe in pharmaceuticals, so instead uses forged herbs for medicinal purposes. The interest of my research came from how the narrator’s family uses herbs, instead of the pharmaceuticals to help with certain …

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The Emotional and Physical Struggles Westover Faces with Shawn

The book Educated is a memoir about Tara's life as she grows up in the rural mountains to a family of survivalists. She is one of seven children in the family and she is homeschooled by their mother, who is an herbalist and midwife. While her father salvages scraps and metal from his junkyard, who …

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