ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Paradise Lost, Mary Wollstonecraft, Romantic Hero
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Prometheus figure: stealing from the gods, suffers from transgression of not being a human. Review: victor doesn"t take responsibility of the monsters actions. Victor is trapped in his own head and talks about the agonies that he is going through and the guilt he feels. Justine is about to be convicted for a murder that she didn"t commit. (remember the photo and the little boy) Not owning up to the thing that he created. Period right before romanticism as a literary movement: lit movement, philosophical movement, devotion to human reason and thought. Voltaire, mary wollstonecraft, isaac newton, john locke. Saw it as a way to eliminate dumb stuff like superstition. Broader push to secularization: if we cant prove it, then we cant say that it is actually true, have to objectively verify. Science was seen as a method of proving things scientific method.
