What Do the Alps Symbolize in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
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Probably  Frankenstein birth place.
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Good one!  And consider some other grusome (cool) icons...\n\nHanged - a body with rope around neck\nBurned  - a chared figure on a stick\nDrawn & quartered - four horses w/ body parts behind each\nBoiled in oil - a steaming cauldron\nExposure in animal skin - vultures with flesh hanging\nFlayed - a "skinless" figure\nBrazen Bull - A bronze bull\nScaphism - I'll let you look this one up
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Here is the universal symbol that is representing happiness.\nhttp://www.everyoneisdifferent.com/img/wall-smiley.bmp
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The full inscription on the Statue of Liberty is a poem entitled "New Collusus" by Emma Lazarus:\n\n    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,\n    With conquering limbs astride from land to land;\n    Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand\n    A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame\n    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name\n    Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand\n    Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command\n    The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.\n\n    "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she\n    With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,\n    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,\n    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\n    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,\n    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" \n\nI haven't been to hell, but if you are referring to Dante's hell, the inscription reads: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.  Dante wrote in Italian, so feel free to translate.
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It is a symbol of authority and power.  You have to trace it's evolution and destruction from the novel.  That entails... doing your own homework.\n\nGood Luck!\n\nSue
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1. believe\n2. arrangement\n3. frankenstein \n\nk1
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OK, here we go...\nAccording to Freud\nThe Snake is a phallic symbol, the legs emphasizing this.\nThe strange roads, if they are forking to the right and left, the right symbolizes moral goodness and purity, whle the left symbolizes deviance and perversion. Mom and Dad would represent guiding figures, possibly in an antagonistic fashion. The snke biting the 4 month old probably sybolizes the act of intercourse. That's according to Freud.\nA less sexually charged interpretation is that:\nThe Snake with legs symbolizes deception, it biting your child most likeley symbolizes that you fear your child will be hurt. The strange roads represent a period of uneasiness in your life, and the Parents represent the authority and guidance to help you along.
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OK, first of all, it's Mary Shelley and it's Frankenstein (or, the Modern Prometheus).\n\nShe also wrote Valperga, The Last Man, Lodore, and Falkner. Well that's four.
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In the summer of 1860, Edward Whymper visited the Alps for the first time. Whymper was an athletic, twenty-year-old English artist who had been hired by a London publisher to make sketches and engravings of the scenic mountains along the border of Switzerland and Italy.\n\nWhile sketching and painting his views of the mountains, Whymper decided that he wanted to become the first man to climb the Matterhorn, the third-highest mountain in Europe.Edward Whymper became famous in the aftermath of his triumph and tragedy on the Matterhorn. Supporting himself by giving lectures and writing books, he gained a reputation as a solitary and remote individual, as well as a heavy drinker. He went on to climb high mountains in South America, Greenland and the Canadian Rockies. Whymper died of natural causes in Switzerland in 1911.
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No Holes In Your Block Of Swiss!  (Block is slang for head)\nSwissneyland\nRight On The Cloggin!\nYodel or ske-dodle!\nClimb the Alps!\nGood With The Blogs, or On With The Clogs!
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The Alps and the Pyrennes
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She wrote Frankenstein.
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Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Mary Shelley is the author of Frankenstein, also known as The Modern Prometheus.
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I think it's a GREAT question. While I've not read the story, I'm familiar with it (who isn't familiar if you've been through public high school?)\n\nPersonally, I think that Frankenstein is the monster. He created life, his child if you will, and then left it out there for the world to mold. His monster was a product of nurture vs. nature. While he was built ugly on the outside, he had a pure heart and simply wanted companionship. Society rejected him and was violent toward him, leading him to follow their example and retaliate.
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In “The Cloud” Shelley's central preoccupation is less with the varying physical manifestations of clouds and more with the animating energy or spirit, which operates invisibly behind each shifting cloud-formation that it adopts. Shelley is intrigued by the cloud's delicately negotiated mode of being between corporeal and spiritual states.
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According to Brenna Hall:\n\nClara and Maria entered their house and closed the door.\n\nThey were living in Germany in about 1572 and they had just come in from getting apples. They had just brought home apples from the market and were now getting thin cookies, cutting out paper roses and apples to put on their Christmas tree.\n\nMaria, the younger of the two sisters, asked, “Why do we use green and red at Christmastime?”\n\nClara, the oldest said, “Well, we use green because we use evergreens – like our tree. Evergreens represent everlasting life. Christ died for us and he still lives -- maybe not on earth but in heaven. That is what everlasting life is.”\n\nWhile the girls decorated the rest of the tree, Clara continued telling Maria other legends and stories of the green and red colors at Christmas.\n\n“Even before Christ, there were men and women called druids that worshipped the earth. They used evergreens in the winter to show that the woodland and fairies live with them during winter.\n\nThe Romans kept branches during winter through the beginning of January and then they would exchange branches with their friends. They would trade them to show a sign of good luck.\n\nThe Egyptians treasured and worshipped evergreens. When the winter solstice arrived they would bring palm trees into their homes to show triumph over death, even though it doesn’t last all through winter.\n\nThere are even several legends of the Christmas tree. Like Martin Luther, in the year 1535. I will tell you about him. He was the one that first put lights on the Christmas tree. He was walking home one evening after he had been giving a sermon and he saw the stars above the evergreens and he was very amazed. He wanted to be able to show his family and recapture the scene so he brought candles and a tree into his living room, put the candles on the tree and that is how we got the lights.”\n\nMaria smiled and looked up at their tree. She loved Christmas. The tree made the drab days of winter just outside their little home a lot brighter. “Do you know any more stories?” she asked.\n\n“I know two more,” Clara continued.\n\n“One about a man named Saint Boniface. Saint Boniface was an English missionary and was out walking when he came upon some men about to cut a huge oak tree as a stake for a human sacrifice to their pagan god. With one mighty blow, Saint Boniface chopped down the tree and a beautiful young fir tree sprang from the center. He told the men that its branches were pointing to heaven.\n\nMy last story to tell you is about a poor woodsman. He was walking home one night when he came upon a hungry child. Even though he was very poor himself he gave the child food and shelter for the night. When he awoke the next morning he rose to find a sparkling tree outside his house. The child was really the Christ child in disguise. And the tree was a gift as a reward for his charity.”\n\nMaria smiled again as the thought of her own Christmas tree warmed her.\n\n“Before you were born and I was very young, there were these things called Paradise Plays.” Clara said.\n\n“They were plays showing parts of the Bible. And they had things in them like evergreens and apples, wafers and things like we are using right now. They were plays of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve. The apples were the fruit and they would play out the story every year on December 24th.”\n\nClara paused, and then frowned a little. “But a little while after the people in the plays became very rude. And the Catholic Church didn’t think the plays were very respectful. So they made it so we couldn’t have those plays anymore.”\n\nClara stopped and thought for a moment. ”Well, I have explained green and I guess these plays are a good way to explain why we use red.”\n\n“First, remember how I told about the apples from the Paradise Plays? They were red. They were used to represent the fall of Adam. When the Church stopped the plays people brought
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The icon is the cadeusis, or staff of Hermes (the Greek messenger god.)\n\nThe staff dates back to Greek times, and comes to medicine and pharmacy through mediveal alchemists.  \n\nHere is one description:\n\n"The mythical origin of his magic twin serpent caduceus is described in the story of Tiresias. Poulenc, in "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" (The Breasts of Tiresias) tells how Tiresias--the seer who was so unhelpful to Oepidus and Family- found two snakes copulating, and to separate them stuck his staff between them. Immediately he was turned into a woman, and remained so for seven years, until he was able to repeat his action, and change back to male. The transformative power in this story, strong enough to completely reverse even physical polarities of male and female, comes from the union of the two serpents, passed on by the wand. Tiresias' staff, complete with serpents, was later passed on to Hermes..."\n\nThe use of the staff was adopted by alchemists becaue it represnted the transformative and curative powers of alchemy/medicine, and has remained in use since that time.\n\nThere is also a version with one snake -- that is the rod of Ascelpius, who was a God of healing:    \n"From the early 16th century onwards, the staff of Asclepius and the caduceus of Hermes were widely used as printers’ marks especially as frontispieces to pharmacopoeias in the 17th and 18th centuries. Over time the rod and serpent (the Asclepian staff) emerged as an independent symbol of medicine."