The Romantic Movement Of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, And...

Frankenstein: Romanticism The novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, demonstrates many different romantic ideals such as, the adoration of nature, extreme location, nationalism and exaggeration of emotions. The romantic movement was in response to the reason and logic dominated enlightenment era. Frankenstein, contrary to the enlightenment, demonstrates romanticism through glorifying one’s feelings and straying from the classroom towards nature. Shelley’s ideals paralleled that of: Edmund Burke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke and the poem, â€Å"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner†, all of which express romantic ideals. Nature is very important to romantics; it is a departure from the enlightened ideals of study and the â€Å"classroom† environment. Dr. Victor Frankenstein shows a great appreciation of nature through diction, especially through Edmund Burke’s idea of the sublime. Burke’s article, On the Sublime, defines sublimity in relation to nature, â€Å"astonishing [...] with a degree of horror†, which is a feeling Dr. Frankenstein frequently describes when he is in nature. In one passage, Frankenstein uses the words, â€Å"troubled†, â€Å"awful majesty†, â€Å"wonderful and stupendous†, â€Å"vast† and â€Å"glittering† (Shelley 101). These words resemble the â€Å"sublime† by combining the beauty of nature and the terror it’s vastness brings, just as Burke illustrates. Shelley also uses imagery. Imagery portrays the beauty that the character’s see in nature to the reader. One instance ofShow MoreRelatedThe Ri me Of The Ancient Mariner878 Words   |  4 PagesThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge and his friend, William Wordsworth, put together a collection of their work called Lyrical Ballads. It contained Coleridge’s famous poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This collection is widely recognized as the initiation of the shift towards modern poetry and British Romantic literature. Although the poem’s deliberate use of antiquated language differed from romantic poetry’s use of modern languageRead MoreThe Romantic Era Of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein871 Words   |  4 PagesThe Romantic era, which originated in the 18th century, was a movement which sought to explore and return to human feelings. It also opposed the enlightenment movement, which sought reason and rationality, due that it found it cold and emotionless. Romanticism became one of the greatest periods of literature, but despite what one may thin k not all of it novels were about love or romance. Indeed, many of their period greatest writings were also about tragedy or drama, like â€Å"the rime of the ancientRead MoreThe Romantic Period Of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, And Mary Shelley1451 Words   |  6 PagesThe Romantic period was primarily an intellectual movement filled with and moved by art, and literature. The era is seen by many as an outbreak or revolt against the â€Å"norms,† not only that but many see the movement as one of the main reactions to the rationalization of both science and nature as well, the era that some would refer to as the Enlightenment. When thought of or talked about today Romanticism is more commonly associated with liberalism and radicalism. The movement was based on the ideaRead MoreEssay about Romanticism1678 Words   |  7 PagesRomanticism, Romanticism, in a way, was a reaction against rigid Classicism, Rationalism, and Deism of the eighteenth century. Strongest in application between 1800 and 1850, the Romantic Movement differed from country to country and from romanticist to romanticist. Because it emphasized change it was an atmosphere in which events occurred and came to affect not only the way humans thought and expressed them, but also the way they lived socially and politically (Abrams, M.H. Pg. 13). â€Å"Romanticism