Romanticism
Romanticism was a cultural reaction to this movement.
What is The Enlightenment?
"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron is about what?
The poem compares a woman’s beauty to the harmony found in darkness and light. Byron suggests this outer beauty is because of inner beauty.
List at least three characteristics of Gothic Literature
I'll accept any of the following:
Sinister settings, isolated landscapes, the uncanny, the sublime, the ghost (a manifestation of old v. new), sexual power, bad weather, supernatural elements, political and social unrest
Who begins the narrative in Frankenstein? What is going on?
Captain Walton. His ship is stuck in ice in the Arctic. He sees the creature sled past. He rescues Dr. F from floating ice and listens to his story.
Captain Walton writes all of this in a letter to his sister.
What do the A, C, and E of an ACE Paragraph stand for?
Answer, Cite, Explain
Define Romanticism
Refers to the birth of a new set of ideas. Romanticism began in Western Europe in the mid-18th century in the work of artists, poets, and philosophers. Values nature, feeling, children, and antiquity
"Civilization is what has made us sick"
Which Romantic poem espouses the ideas that human development is eventually at the mercy of Nature and that poetry can immortalize Art?
"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley
Where did the term "Goth" come from?
A barbarous Germanic people called the Goths, who invaded Rome
During the Renaissance, architecture from the Dark Ages was named after them as an insult.
During the Romantic period, and the Gothic Architecture Revival, dark/moody literature was called after them in praise
Describe William Frankenstein's involvement in the plot.
Dr. F's brother. Is mistaken for Dr. F's son; is killed by Creature. Justine is blamed for his murder. As a result, Dr. F feels guilty for two deaths.
Explain the circumstances under which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
The Year Without a Summer. Several miscarriages. Ghost story contest at the Lake Geneva with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.
Thomas Chatterton, the first “hopeless Romantic,” who completes suicide because no one will publish his sensitive poetry, and Geothe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, about a man who completes suicide because of unrequited love, are examples of this Romantic ideal.
What is valuing feelings over logic?
"Bright Star" by John Keats is what type of poem?
An apostrophe
Define the idea of "the sublime"
When nature becomes terrifying, awesome, and overwhelming. The Romantics almost worshipped nature and their work reminds humanity of nature's ultimate power.
Frankenstein's narrative structure is defined by this literary technique.
What is a frame narrative?
Explain the Greek Myth Prometheus and how Shelley uses it in Frankenstein.
She subtitles Frankenstein "a modern Prometheus." Dr. F represents P, who steals fire from the Gods and gives it to humanity, resulting in knowledge and destruction. Both corrupt the natural order.
The Romantics felt this way about children.
BONUS (for 50 points): What did Jean Jacques Rousseau publish in 1762 to promote this particular Romantic ideal?
Romantics praise their goodness, spontaneity, and wisdom. Children represent everything that is pure, unschooled, and outside adult oppression. They represent freedom from tradition.
Bonus: On Education
Who wrote "The World is Too Much With Us" and what is the poem's message? Which Romantic ideal does it promote and how?
William Wordsworth
Valuing Nature over Industry
He argues that humanity has made a deal in order to pursue industry and modernity, but we lose nature's purity as a cost
Of the Romantic artists we studied, who is considered a Gothic painter?
Francisco Goya
Against what is Frankenstein a cautionary tale?
Pursuing the limits of science, playing God, artificial intelligence
Write down an example of how to format an integrated quote with a citation. You may make up the quote.
Example example example, "example example" (32).
Why did the Romantics value nature over industry?
They believed in the idea that “civilization is what has made us sick,” and that the industrial world was ruining humanity and the natural order.
They didn’t believe in God, but located the feeling of religion in the open spaces of Nature.
They found an escape from the stress of city life in the natural grandeur that transcends human success
Explain how "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" by William Blake work together as companion pieces.
BONUS: What type of illustrations did Blake invent?
The poems, published separately (one in Songs of Innocence and the other in Songs of Experience), work together to show Blake's development as a Romantic over time. The two poems specifically address his thoughts on religion.
Bonus: Illuminated Printing (will accept a description of the process for points)
In what two ways does Gothic literature handle the supernatural world?
Some Gothic literature asks us to believe wholeheartedly in it, while other Gothic lit offers realistic explanations for supernatural events (like Scooby Doo)
Dr. Frankenstein attends college at this school.
BONUS: Can you spell it correctly?
What is Ingolstadt?
Special Challenge: Write the first sentence of an ACE paragraph that answers the following question:
Does Nature or Nurture play a greater role in The Creature's disposition and life trajectory?
Must include book title, author's name, and directly answer the question.