Frank and Romanticism quiz

"I entered with the greatest diligence into the search for the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life”

Victor

"Life and death appeared to me as ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me

Victor

Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging around my neck and bowing me to the ground?

Victor

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Monster

Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam

Monster

His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful... Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles.

Victor

If I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.

Victor

I will work at your destruction, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth.

Monster

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Monster

You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!

Monster

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Monster

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Victor

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Monster

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.

Victor

The world was to me a secret, which I desired to divine.

Victor

The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Victor

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

Monster

No creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.

Victor

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.

Walton

Why is Robert Walton sailing to the Arctic?

He wants to explore uncharted territories and discover new scientific knowledge.

Where does Victor go to study, and what does he focus on?

The University of Ingolstadt; he studies natural philosophy and chemistry.

Who is the first person the creature kills?

Victor’s younger brother, William Frankenstein.

What does the creature do while hiding near the De Lacey family’s cottage?

He secretly observes them and learns to speak and read.

What happens when the creature tries to introduce himself to the De Lacey family?

They reject him in fear, and Felix attacks him.

Why does Victor destroy the female creature before finishing her?

He fears that she and the original creature will reproduce and endanger humanity.

What happens to Victor’s father after Elizabeth's death?

He dies from grief

How does Victor die?

He dies of exhaustion and illness while pursuing the monster in the Arctic.

What does the monster do at the end of the novel?

He mourns Victor’s death and then disappears into the Arctic, intending to die.

Why doesn’t Victor tell anyone that the monster killed William?

He fears no one will believe him and that he will be seen as insane.

What book has a profound impact on the creature?

Paradise Lost by John Milton.

Where does Victor go to create the female creature?

A remote island in Scotland’s Orkneys.

What does Walton’s crew want to do after the ship gets stuck in ice?

They want to turn back and return home.

Where does Victor go after leaving Scotland?

Ireland

Who is the magistrate that oversees Victor’s case in Ireland?

Mr. Kirwin

When was the gothic novel genre founded

1754

What was the first gothic novel

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Gothic novel features

terror, mystery, haunted buildings, castles, curses, doom, dark forest, lonely character who is immersed in sorrow

What was Mary Shelley’s age when Frankenstein was published?

20

Marry Shelley lifetime

1797-1851

Mary Shelley parents

feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, anarchist philosopher William Godwin

Mary Shelley husband

Percy Shelley

What was Mary Shelley’s inspiration for frankenstein

a ghost story writing contest

Mary Shelley deaths in her family

Her older half-sister, Percy’s first wife, her infant daughter and young son

When did Percy Shelley die and how

1822, He drowned at sea

Gothic Traits in Frankenstein

Exotic Locales: Switzerland, Arctic; Laboratories and scientific experiments, the characters bridge the mortal and the supernatural world

Who was Prometheus

A titan who took fire from the gods and gave it to man. Zeus then punished Prometheus.

Prometheus in the 18th century

Industrial revolution and French revolution, containing both promise and unknown horrors.

Romantic Literature Themes

Feelings, individuality, exploring the human soul, search for spirituality, emphasis on nature

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, women possess the same intelligence as men

What was romantic poetry inspired from

The Industrial Revolution, and Nature becoming a source of mystical inspitation

William Blake Lifetime

1757-1827, self taught

William Blake values

rejection of reason, moderation, fondness of the French Revolution

What was William Blake famous for

His engravings

William Blake major works

Songs of Innocence, Songs of experience

Songs of Innocence themes

rediscovering the world as seen by a child, pastoral, faith is strong enough to transcend the power of the world (what we could be)

Songs of Experience themes

what we are, overcome adversity to get innocence

Neoplatonism

man is confined to 5 sensed, he can only be freed by poetic genius, also includes the oversoul

Wordsworth lifetime

1770-1850

Coleridge lifetime

1772-1834

Wordsworth and Coleridge famous work

book of poems called Lyrical Ballads, beginning of romanticism in England

Wordsworth Poetic themes

poetry is “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” rustic subjects, simple language, intense feelings that nature inspired

Wordsworth’s last 20 years

Poet laureate, wrote boring sonnets about history of English church

Wordsworth and Coleridge themes overall

world lost its innocence, science, tech, business are ruining thinfs

Tintern Abbey style

a meditation on memory, guiding reader through series of emotional states

Tintern Abbey theme

transformative power of nature and its ability to inspire deep emotional and spiritual reflection.

Tintern Abbey summary

Wordsworth reflects on his past and present experiences with nature, expressing how it has shaped his emotions

Tintern Abbey writer

Wordsworth

The Younger Generation

Byron, Shelley, Keats

Lord Byron’s writing style

“Byronic Hero:” gloomy, self-absorbed character who views others with contempt, his poetry is a bit more precise

Lord Byron’s best work

satirical poem Don Juan

Percy Shelley Views

hated aristocrats, very rebellious, political poems

Percy Shelley famous works

Prometheus Unbound

Keats major subjects in poetry

absorption in love and beauty, problems with them in the real world, wants poems to have intensity, not argument

Description of Keats

Finds melancholy in delight, pleasure in pain, intensity in love means you are close to death

Ode definition

Long poem with complex stanza structure, characterized by lofty feeling, dignified style

Kubla Khan writer

Coleridge

Kubla Khan theme

The power of imagination and the contrast between human creation and the natural, mystical forces of the world.

Kubla Khan summary

describes the exotic and dreamlike palace of Kubla Khan, blending visions of human grandeur with the untamed power of nature and the supernatural,

What is the turn at line 37

shifts from a description of Kubla Khan’s palace to a personal reflection on the power of poetry

Who wrote Ozymandias

Shelley

Irony in Ozymandias

contrast between the pharaoh’s arrogant proclamation of his greatness and the reality that his empire has crumbled into ruins

Ozymandias theme

The impermanence of power and human achievement.

Ozymandias summary

tells of a ruined statue in the desert, serving as a powerful reminder that even the greatest rulers and civilizations will eventually fade into oblivion

Ozymandias form

Sonnet

Ode to the West Wind author

Shelley

Ode to the West Wind form

5 sonnets, terza rima

West wind symbolism

causes rebirth, renewal, bringer of death, shelley wants wind to carry radical ideas everywhere

Ode to the West Wind theme

The power of nature as both a destructive and regenerative force, symbolizing change, revolution, and poetic inspiration.

Ode to the West Wind summary

invokes the mighty West Wind as a force of destruction and renewal, expressing his desire for his poetry to spread like the wind, inspiring change and revolution in the world.

Who Wrote La Belle Dame sans Merci

Keats

La Belle Dame sans Merci theme

The danger of obsession and the destructive power of seductive, unattainable love.

La Belle Dame sans Merci summary

tale of a knight who is enchanted and abandoned by a fairy, leaving him in a state of endless sorrow and despair.

La Belle Dame sans Merci form

quatrains, varying iambic tetrameter and trimeter

Ode to a Grecian Urn author

Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn main figurative language

apostrophe

Ode on a Grecian Urn form

iambic pentameter, each stanza starts with a quatrain and ends with a sestet

Ode on a Grecian Urn theme

The relationship between art and time, exploring how art captures beauty and truth in a timeless, unchanging form.

Ode on a Grecian Urn summary

reflects on the images depicted on an ancient urn, marveling at their eternal beauty and frozen perfection, ultimately concluding that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"