I Am an Adam, Too

By DMS

I was trying to work on my Frankenstein paper in my school library when a Campus News newspaper invited me to caress her. It was an article that caught my attention called Adjuncts Are People, Too, by Darren Johnson. The story allured my interest; it was descriptive and emotional.

My point is, I believe that Darren Johnson’s article is in fact expressing an aspect of Romanticism. Darren Johnson shows emotional thought in his writing. His voice is so open and clear, as if he were talking through his lungs in front of me. He says, “At first, I thought I’d be a shoo-in for a full-time job. I knew the college, knew the students, had a fine record in the field, nice faculty evaluation, didn’t really rock the boat. But I’d never get an interview, even though it was in the union contract that I was supposed to.” He thought that because he was an adjunct at the school he would get an interview and get a full-time job there. But he did not get either the interview or the job.

Darren Johnson’s desperation is similar to the scene in Frankenstein in which Frankenstein’s creature expresses his feelings to Victor. Mary Shelley states, “I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.” The creature wants to receive good treatment from Victor Frankenstein, but he gets bad deeds instead.

Both stories reflect Romantic ideas; both writers express their emotional thoughts through their writings.