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Saving Stuart
Isn't it Romantic
Elementary My Dear Victorian
I, Frankenstein
Finding Erehwon
100
When you are a king and you need money to start a war, just make sure you don't upset Cromwell or you might just lose your head, like this monarch did.
Who is Charles I or Charles Stuart
100
According to Wordsworth and Coleridge, this should be allowed to be free and wild while it incorporated human passions with the beauteous forms of nature.
What is poetry
100
Tennyson was the poet laureate of the period and his most famous work focused on the idylls of this medieval monarch
Who is King Arthur Pendragon of Camelot
100
Mary shelly wrote frankenstein at 18 and published it 3 years later with this subtitle, as reference to greek myth.
What is A Modern Prometheus
100
George Orwell created this neo-logism that has now been used thematically in books and movies to show a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
What is a dystopia
200
Focusing on the greater intellect of man led writers to this style of poetry, one that creates conceits of extended comparisons that link objects or ideas with not commonly associated often abstract meanings.
What is Metaphysical Poetry
200
He was the great iconoclast who used symbols to represent his ideas, emotions or political and religious beliefs. His style started the movement known as the Romantic period.
Who is William Blake
200
Most of the most influential music of the period came from this county, one who boasts the works of Beethoven, Wagner and Strauss.
What is Germany
200
Even though Mary was betrothed, and William Godwin refused to publish his book on atheism, he wooed Mary and eloped with her to Italy. What a romantic.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley
200
It stood as a beacon of hope for so many during a time when England had lost its protection by the Romans and feared invasion from the Picts, Woads, Celts and the Anglo Saxons.
What is Camelot
300
"While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled, seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the next future." This concept, used by the Cavalier poets (Marvell & Herrick) is more commonly known by this Latin term.
What is Carpe Diem
300
In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, there are these inherent roles: the mariner is the teacher, the wedding guest is the students and the albatross is the lesson.
What are archetypes
300
It was the 19th century style of artwork of Monet, Renoir and Pissaro. Designed with quick brushstrokes it focused on how light affects its subjects without giving away too much detail, but rather it provided an imprint of the events for that particular time of day.
What is Impressionism
300
Although his presence makes him responsible for several deaths in the novel, Justine, William, Henry, and Elizabeth, the creature is not responsible for this particular death
Who is the girl who drowned
300
Although he thought he had it all, the power of a king, the authority over a people and command of a great army, his life was quite problematic because he "shall sleep no more".
Who is Macbeth
400
It was his greatest piece of work reflecting the events during the English Civil War which led to the development of the Commonwealth. It described its struggles, and its hope for the future of England in the analogies of heaven, hell and man. Its just so hard to believe Milton wrote this great epic when he was blind.
What is Paradise Lost
400
He was mad, bad and dangerous to know, however he saw great beauty in both light and shadow when he described his cousin by saying "She walks in beauty like the night..."
Who is Lord Gordon Byron
400
With all the "-isms" of the period, this was the only concept to stand the test of time while the others faded away into textbooks. Just goes to show that it truly is the survival of the fittest.
What is Darwinism
400
Victor is caught between the current & developing world of the Romantics, symbolized by his mother, Henry and Elizabeth and the universe of this particular time period, one focused on science, logic and learning.
What is the Enlightenment
400
During the 19th century England's survival depended upon their control over colonies around the world in order to receive raw materials and control over the trade market. Alhough it could be called colonialism, the arrogance and superiority thrust by the western white man upon the world, led historians to call this policy by this name.
What is Imperialism
500
The Stuart reign started with James I and was revived by Charles II, but it was this monarch who was the last of the line prior to the takeover by the Hanovers.
Who is Anne Stuart
500
It is the last two lines in John Keats' Ode to a Greecian Urn describing Keats' philosophy towards truth and beauty.
What is 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
500
Most of the literature of the period focuses on the search for great beauty and this ideal place, which should be able to be found despite the darkness in humanity.
What is Utopia
500
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was an innovative tale, not only for its Gothic nature, but also for for this style of writing which placed a story within a story, thus unifying what may be unrelated tales within the novel.
What is frame story
500
Everyone is told that living under the Empire's rule bring peace, prosperity and a secure future for the people. However, one young man challenges that belief, learns from a mentor, is gifted with a talisman, finds companions to face his early trials and in the end faces the greatest evil alone only to come out victorious for his people. This particular pattern of storytelling is described by Joseph Campbell as a common element in A Hero with a Thousand faces.
What is The Hero's Journey