Frankenstein Context
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- Created on: 24-10-17 15:38
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- Frankenstein Context
- The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
- By Samuel Coleridge (1797/8)
- Start of romanticism
- A sailor stops a guest at a wedding and tells a story
- Guest changes feelings to the sailor in the poem
- By Samuel Coleridge (1797/8)
- Science vs Religion
- The novel shows fun / danger of playing God
- Shelley read Humphrey Davy
- He believed in science and modification
- In the 1800s people were very religious
- However, some started to believe in Darwinism (evolution) 40 years after Frankenstein
- Prometheus
- A titan in Greek mythology
- Zeus took fire from humans but he stole it back for them
- Created mankind
- Industrial Revolution
- 1760 - 1840
- Frankenstein written during it, shows advances in science and technology
- Galvanism
- Reanimating a corpse
- No explanation for Frankenstein - based more on feelings
- Reanimating a corpse
- Galvani's experiments
- Popular idea at the time
- Shelley's book came to her in a dream
- The Romantic Movement
- 1798 - 1832
- Gothicism part of it
- Focused on a "hero" e.g. Victor
- Supernatural
- Solitude
- Quests
- Feeling
- Nature
- Paradise Lost
- By John Milton (1667)
- About Adam and Eve being banished from Eden
- "Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to make me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me"
- The Enlightenment
- New ideas, a cultural movement in 1700s
- Progress and reason were key
- Science
- Looked more at facts than religion / tradition
- New ideas, a cultural movement in 1700s
- Gothic Novels
- Popular in 1800s
- Mystery / Horror / Supernatural
- Desolate Settings / Violent Incidents
- Questions boundaries of human good or evil
- Shows irrational side of people
- The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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