ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these novels were by Pearcy Shelley?
A
adonais
B
zastrozzi
C
frankenstein
D
Romeo and Juliet
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Zastrozzi: A Romance (1810) and St. Irvyne (1811)are Gothic horror novel masterpieces by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shelley’s best known works include “Ozymandias” (1818), “Ode to the West Wind” (1819), “To a Skylark” (1820), and the political ballad “The Mask of Anarchy” (1819). As well as poetry, he wrote prose fiction and essays on political, social, and philosophical issues.

Detailed explanation-3: -The themes are good versus evil, atheism and religiosity, obsession and pursuit, revenge and murder, and man overreaching the boundaries of morality to become a new Prometheus, a Miltonian Satan. Zastrozzi, Bernardo, Matilda, and Victor are also adept at swordplay which is a key element of the action.

Detailed explanation-4: -Percy Bysshe Shelley – author of Ozymandias | The British Library.

Detailed explanation-5: -Among his best-known works are “Ozymandias” (1818), “Ode to the West Wind” (1819), “To a Skylark” (1820), the philosophical essay “The Necessity of Atheism” written alongside his friend T. J. Hogg (1811), and the political ballad “The Mask of Anarchy” (1819).

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