ENGL-2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Unseen Power, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Egotism
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Shelley lived life to the fullest, yet died in 20s: lived a bohemian life, and did not follow society"s trends, pursued the things he wanted. Shelley was born to a rich family: was a baronet, family was conservative, but shelley was radical, went to oxford, but got kicked out of it at 18 for an atheist pamphlet, necessity of. At the time, religious belief was a power structure and was taught in school: this got him estranged from his family, but his family still continued to support him, died at 29, drowned on the coast of italy. Egoist or idealist: egoism: self-interest as the foundation of morality. Is it possible for him to have been both: early writings established him as a rebel, and his reputation followed him, early on, was a pamphleteer. Irish independence: the necessity of atheism (oxford) 2: anti-monarchy, free love, queen mab, epic political fairytale, freedom of the press v. anti-sedition laws.