LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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His Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley
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Its suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control
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His desire to create a political revolution
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -Victor Frankenstein represents Romanticism because he is a warning against scientific pursuit without thought. Romanticism was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, and Victor created something without considering the consequences of his actions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Confidence in the heart, not the mind, and free will are hallmarks of Romantic thought. This letter, written on three separate days (August 5, August 13, and August 19), begins quietly enough when Walton describes how his ship is stuck in an ice field far from land.
Detailed explanation-3: -Critical Essays Frankenstein as a Gothic Novel. Frankenstein is by no means the first Gothic novel. Instead, this novel is a compilation of Romantic and Gothic elements combined into a singular work with an unforgettable story.
Detailed explanation-4: -Victor Frankenstein sets out to create a living creature from non-living material. “A new race of being…which would owe their existence to [him].” This in mind, the misguided scientist gathers parts of ideal quality from a myriad of sources, disregarding age, gender and even species when necessary.