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Lecture notes and thoughts on "Frankenstein" (both the 1931 Film Version and Shelley's Novel) and also Gothic theory
... Butler. - The text in relationship to history is important, as there is a ... is that Promethius is tied to a rock and an eagle eats his liver ... contemporary setting in mind. Key use of scientific debates of her day - electricity. Distinction between life and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Shakespeare's World
... were greatly influenced by the Renaissance. The Renaissance is a period of European history that saw a renewed interest in the arts. The ... in a fixed arrangement. God was at the head of this chain, while Rocks and Minerals were at the bottom. A king ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
"Road To Wigan Pier" by Orwell
... Most people understand the industrial revolution as a period of innovation in American history. From reading this book, one can learn ... the mining process worked. Once the pieces were broken out of the rock, they were shoveled onto a conveyor belt which ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
F.S. Fitzgeral "The Great Gatsby".
... an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period of history. The Great Gatsby describes the decay of the ... ; they were a satisfactory hint of the reality of unreality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
WB Yeats.
... them throughout their life. Yeats lived in one of the most turbulent periods in Irish history. The events going on around him shaped ... he treks over rocks in spite of his old age to try and rid himself of the cobwebs. He also recalls some of his previous ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Robert Frost
... and memorable examples of so many metrical schemes. These can be presented in connection with Longfellow's personal history, for he is of course ... fact that Longfellow was in his time as popular as a rock singer might be in ours. Second, the fact that while ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
THE SECOND COMING
... on the return of Jesus Christ to the earth at the end of earthly history. In the latter portion of his ministry, ... alive bringing havoc to the city of Bethlehem after twenty centuries of stony sleep. The rocking cradle represented Jesus Christ. The ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
... did not like her. Edgar and Nelly informed Cathy of Heathcliff's terrible history and negative impact on her family. Once ... her. "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Frankenstien
... in Victor's description of natural philosophy: "I at once gave up my former occupations; set down natural history and all its ... into the northern ice, inscribing words in trees and on rocks, turning nature itself into a writing surface. Motifs are recurring ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
... on the train: "Happy people have no history." Anna gives up her previous life out of passion for Vronsky. Their love, ... Vronsky, after their initial courtship, seems larger than life, "a rock star whose image is infinitely superior, impossible in reality". ( ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature