ENGL102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Victorian Era, Science Advances, William Godwin

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL102
• Professor: Alonso David

Document Summary

A message on the irony and danger in the quest for power. Shelley"s purpose a novel analysis . (a. k. a. the rest of your unit!) Influenced by the romantic period, the scientific inquiry of her time, and her own life, mary shelley"s gothic novel, frankenstein, presents a clear message on the irony and danger in the quest for power. Time of political revolution and new ways of looking at the world (especially in the light of the french revolution) Britain was becoming the most powerful nation in the world. Britain"s prosperity (industrial revolution) eventually created a sense of british righteousness. Critiqued the single-mindedness of the enlightenment period; much more self- conscious. Whereas the enlightenment period saw man in common, that is, as creatures endowed with reason, the romantics saw diversity and uniqueness . Discover yourself -- express yourself, cried the romantic artist . instead of the motto, "dare to know!" the romantics took up the battle cry, "dare to be!"