William Faulkner once said, "The writer's duty is to remind man of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail." Faulkner encapsulates a writer's duty as depicting the qualities of man that have allowed him to progress, thrive, and overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. An author uses fictional circumstances to demonstrate man's potential promise. Likewise, a writer must warn against the abuses mankind can inflict upon himself and society if he chooses the wrong path. The author will in turn steer their potential to "endure and prevail" until they reach ultimate success. This is true in the literary works of George Orwell's' 1984 and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Through the use...