Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.
Originally Halloween was a pagan festival, around the idea of linking the living with the dead, when contact became possible between the spirits and the physical world, and magical things were more likely to happen. Like most pagan festivals, long ago it was absorbed into the festivals of the expanding Christian church, and became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day, which eventually fell on November 1.
The celebration of Halloween survived most strongly in Ireland. It was an end of summer festival, and was often celebrated in each community with a bonfire to ward off the evil spirits. Children would go from door to door in disguise as creatures from the underworld to collect treats, mainly fruit, nuts and the like for the festivities. These were used for playing traditional games like eating an apple on a string or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands. Salt might be sprinkled on the visiting children to ward off evil spirits. Carving turnips as ghoulish faces to hold candles became a popular part of the festival, which has been adapted to carving pumpkins in America.
The day is often associated with the colours black and orange, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films!
No is a religious celecbration, it's a pagan festival but it has a Christian influence.
That day, the kids dress up and go to houses asking for candy: Trick or treat?
The main image of Halloween pumpkin.
The English have put a lot of interest and mystery, making games, singing, watching films,...
pox: verola
FRANKEINSTEIN film:
Vocabulary:
Upheaval: Convulsió
Lust: luxúria
Alongside: al costat de
Knowledge: Coneixement
reaching: assolir
voyage: viatge
Unknow: desconegut
topsail: gavia
Mutiny: mutí
phantom: fantasma
rod: barra
foolish: ximple
ravings: desvaris
abomination: abominació
pox: verola
raw: cru
barnç: graner
jail: presó
unlawful: il·legal
riny: riny
weep: plorar
wisdom: saviesa
soul: ànima
knowlage: coneixament
perharps: potser
rage: ràbia
indulge: complaure
vow: vot
frighteened: espantat
frighteened: espantat
lodgings: allotjament
Plot:
"I busied myself to think of a story which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror; one to make the reader dread to look around, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
The
story begins in the year 1794. Captain Walton is leading a daring,
but troubled, expedition to reach the North
Pole,
even as his crew is threatening
to mutiny.
While their ship is trapped in the ice of the Arctic
Sea,
Walton and his crew discover a man traveling across the Arctic on his
own. In the distance, a loud
moaning
can be heard. When the man sees how obsessed Walton is with reaching
the North Pole, he asks, "Do you share my madness?" The man
then reveals that his name is Victor Frankenstein and begins his
tale.
There
is a flashback
to Victor's childhood
in Geneva
as the son of the wealthy
Baron and Caroline Frankenstein. He grows up with his adopted
sister,Elizabeth
Lavenza,
who becomes the love of his life. Years later, Caroline dies giving
birth to his brother William. Sometime before going off to the
university at Ingolstadt,
a grief-stricken
Victor
vows
on his mother's grave that he will find a way to conquer death. On
the night of his graduation, Victor and Elizabeth promise to marry
when Victor returns from his studies
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