The Cursed Bibliography

Here I am, once again, face to face with my biggest enemy: the BIBLIOGRAPHY.

My amazing Frankenstein essay is done. I am very proud of everything I wrote. It flows perfectly from one paragraph to the other, from one idea to the other. I have researched so much and used so many quotes from so many scholars. I feel like I am an expert in this novel.

But all my sweet dreams shattered after writing this one word: Bibliography. All those articles I’ve read need to be listed. Nothing complicated, right? No, until you are caught in the world of editions and years and publications and editors and titles of books and titles of articles. Some things are between apostrophes, others are in italics. Names are sometimes normal, some other times reversed. Chaos.

Luckily I can ask for help from my teachers, but I hope that one day I will finally understand this cursed bibliography myself. I can’t email my teachers forever and bibliography is really important - it is evidence that you didn’t commit intellectual theft. But why must it be so annoying and complicated?