ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mary Shelley, Gothic Fiction, Paradise Lost

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: John Pierce

Document Summary

Mimetic theory literature is an imitation of something. She basically says i know everybody wants to read about what could actually happen but i am not going to write about what can actually happen, it"s a work of fantasy . Mimesis = about human passion not external events , wants to go to the core of the human nature (essentiel principls of human existenceex what drives us what sets us apart etc) Her percy lord bryan pollydore had a competion to write the best ghost story when they spent the summer together in a castle. ******* novel is about domestic connections (family, domestic homelife, fathers, sisters, brothers, etc way in which a family can be integrated. )************** -> creation of the creature is secondary to the human connections in the story. Frankenstein is portrayed almost in the opposite way to what mary shelly was trying to do for mary shelly he ridentity is too limiting .