Historical Figures
The author of the Communist Manifesto.
Karl Marx.
The idea that certain races are more advanced than others.
Social Darwinism.
The effects of the Industrial Revolution on working conditions.
Child labor, horrific workplace accidents, cramped living conditions, disease, families seperated, jobs specialized.
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
Satan, Paradise Lost (Also quoted at the beginning of Frankenstein.)
Unconfessed, unforgiven sin will destroy you and those you love.
Frankenstein.
The husband of the author of Frankenstein.
Percy Shelley.
A cultural movement reacting to the Enlightenment that valued emotion, nature, and individualism.
Romanticism.
The cause of Charles I's execution.
He became an absolute monarch, ignored parliament, and killed his own people.
Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.
The monster, Frankenstein.
There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still.
The Hiding Place.
The author who wrote a defense of the execution of Charles I.
The belief that God created but does not intervene in the universe.
Deism.
The effect of Merlin's magic on the N.I.C.E.
Confused speech, animals let loose, the N.I.C.E. is destroyed.
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
Satan, Paradise Lost.
To justify the ways of God to men.
Paradise Lost.
The king of France during the French Revolution.
Louis XVI.
The belief that private property should be abolished because it is the source of the struggle between the classes.
Communism.
The effect of new weaponry upon the nature of the fighting during WWI.
Trench warfare.
"It is for this that I came here, that you may have Death in abundance."
The Unman, Perelandra
War destroys everything.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
The man who initiated the Reign of Terror with his "Committee of Public Safety."
Robespierre.
The idea that we are saved by knowledge from the corruption of the material world.
Gnosticism.
The effect of the Enlightenment on Christianity.
People sought truth in reason rather than Christianity, making Christianity seem superstitious and unnecessary. This pushed the church away from the center of society and caused a church/state divide.
"Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education, I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it."
Feverstone/Devine, That Hideous Strength
There are real spiritual powers of good and evil in the world, and our everyday actions show what side we are on.
That Hideous Strength.