ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

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His theory shows the link between nature and culture: animals and human. A moral evolution: from emotion to reason; the ability to create ethics. The new human is the subject of the nature/culture tension. mankind: majority of people think of males when they think about the word mankind The author of frankenstein: the modern prometheus 1818. Her mother mary wollstonecraft was a famous feminist writer. Her father william godwin was a famous political literature writer. Frankenstein was published at a time when romantic period ideas clashed with scientific ideas, such as the invention of electricity. Prometheus: a god who steals fire from the mount olympics and brings it to human world; he is punished by zeus - chaining onto a mountain and his heart is eaten by the eagle every day. Prometheus is the hero of enlightenment: he brings technology; he is also romantic: he steals fire and disobeys authority. The spark of life = the stealing of fire.

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