Similarities Between Frankenstein And Suffer The Little Children

There is a fine line between sane and insane monsters in people. Sometimes, it is a mental issue, other times it is just one simple thought that provokes the monster inside of people. Just one thought could change a person and their actions entirely. Just one person’s doings could make someone else feat evilly upon them. Just one sight, feeling, or a wrong message. Just one mistake. Just one. Just one incident or thought can change a person and their actions. With textual evidence and examples from “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, “Suffer the Little Children” by Steven King, and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, the monsters inside of the characters will emerge with a provoking element. Just as a thought can

However, she is aware that she is mentally absurd by uttering to herself, “it was all in your mind, Emily” (6). Miss Sidley is a 3rd grade teacher who is quite wise and uses her skills prudently. She uses the reflection in her glasses to distinguish what undertakings the students commit behind her back. Miss Sidley has one student in particular that is relevant in creating her inner-monster, that student is Robert. Miss Sidley notes that she saw a “glimpse of Robert’s face changing” (2) which is the first sign of her viewing her students as fiends, she believes that Robert’s face actually morphed and melted into a monstrous creature. Her thoughts make her ponder that Robert and the rest of the children are horrors. Robert then gives her another sign of the class being monsters by telling her “there’s so many of us” (5), making Miss Sidley to ruminate that all of her students are immoral beings, even though she has only witnessed Robert changing into a beast. She makes the judgment to eradicate the ‘monsters’ she continues to generate in her mind. Therefore, she creates a “special test” (6) where the test takes place in another room, she transports each student into a different room. The room permits no noise to be received outside of it, giving her the opportunity to shoot each of 12 students with her brother’s gun, with no one hearing it. What

Poe gives this villain features that allow him to be viewed as sane or insane due to the fact that Montresor acted in retaliation. Fortunato, a friend of Montresor, insulted him, giving Montresor a motive. However, even though he has a motive, he torments Fortunato, which is an inhumane characteristic. Montresor desires more that to just kill Fortunato, he yearns for making him agonize. While at a carnival, Montresor forages wine to Fortunato, tricking him into following him into the catacombs. With Fortunato intoxicated in the undergrounds, Montresor “fetters him to the granite” (10) leaving him there to distress. Finally, after “the yells of him [Fortunato] clamored” (11), Montresor built tiers of plastered stone, keeping a barrier between Fortunato and the aboveground. Leaving the reader with uncertainty of what happens to Fortunato, Poe later gives the statement from Montresor “in pace requiescat!” (12) reassuring the reader that he commits homicide to Fortunato. How does this make him a monster? He does not want just revenge, he wants to make Fortunato suffer for his doings. He can be perceived as sane mainly because of the reason behind it; making one feel for his faults. However, he can be perceived as insane because he imprisoned a man to make him deteriorate and slowly rot in the