What romantic values are present in Frankenstein? (1 Viewer)

[Shoom]

How does letter one of Frankenstein establish the concepts of the module

 

[Pacchiru]

dude do your own work

 

[Shoom]

imaigne if people said that to everyone who posted a question on BOS, the forum would have 10 topics...........


someone help please.

 

[youngminii]

imaigne if people said that to everyone who posted a question on bos, the forum would have 10 topics...........


Someone help please.

+1

 

[Timothy.Siu]

imaigne if people said that to everyone who posted a question on BOS, the forum would have 10 topics...........


someone help please.

think

 

[Shoom]

Trying to, can't come up with an answer.

 

[christoffpow]

Romanticm.. different from romantiscm.. excuse my spelling. anyways Romantisicm in frankenstein.. is really the connection the characters have with nature.. personal fufilment and spirutual reflection. A bit like when victor goes to the alps or wherever.. to think and stuff. and the monster in the woods lighting a fire.. and it gives him warmth.. and waltons journey through the cold and snow on his ship.. all Romanticm. sorry its been a while since i last read frankenstein.

I'd say its where the characters of the novel gain a personal understanding through the beauty of nature.

 

[Shoom]

Since they were aagaisnt knowledge if it screwed your inner peace, is the monster finding victors diary and hence gaining knowledge that disrupts his emotion part of romanticism , aslo Frankenstein the knowledge he gained lead to him begin corrupted?

 

[Count Chocular]

+1

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[HMF]

- nature has the ability to reflect a persons emotions etc etc, when a storm comes it often reflects a negative even about to occur.
- has the ability to synchronise with an individual spiritually and heal them if that maks sense.

 

[Fortify]

Cliffnotes;

 

[M.T.T.]

Cliffnotes;

No.



Anyways...
Romanticism does not entirely revolve around nature. Basically, the Romantics (the composers at the time) were fed up with the social, cultural, political, ideological, and whatnot, changes occurring at the time (of the Industrial Revolution) but they weren't entirely conservative in that sense. They wanted society to develop in their own preferred way.

In Frankenstein, we can see the Romantic ideas expressed in Shelley's descriptions of the landscape (the Arctic, the Alps, England) which give a layer of the supernatural to the natural - this is the most well-known aspect of Romanticism. The technical term is "Natural Supernaturalism."


Also, in the novel, we can see two character archetypes that the Romantics identified with: the one represented by Frankenstein who indulges in his own self-interest (Captain Ahab is an example from another Romantic text, Moby Dick), and the one represented by the Monster: the beautiful soul in the ugly body (Remember the Ugly Duckling? Well, that's from the Romantic Period as well).


Finally, the prevalence of emotions as a method of transcendental communication. The emotions of fear (of the Monster) and awe (of the landscape and the Monster) in Frankenstein are an example of one of the staple aspects to Gothic literature, a sub-genre to Romantic literature.


There, enjoy.

 

[jakedoesnt]

nah, nature is actually mentioned a lot in this text in comparison to blade runner

Isn't it really similar in regards to the whole mentioning of nature thing?
Blade Runner and Frankenstein...
Cause they're both cases of one person trying to play God and the consequences of their actions...

 

[rara92]

yeah but they both explore the effect of nature on humanity
blade runner: explores how societys disconnection from nature leads to the loss of humanity, makes the cold and uncaring e.g. TYRELL
frankestein: explores how the sublime experince of nature has the ability to transcend the senses..like you see their moods chng alot in the books when they are faced with the beauty of nature

 

[yummy-cookies]

what amazes me it that this topic has gotten so many posts, and yet no mod has moved it to the english section yet. lol