Mary Shelley's Sonnet 116 In The Cannon

Overall, Sonnet 116 is in The Cannon because it is a well-written, influential poem that Shakespeare created to formally declare the definition of love. While I am particularly partial to poems, Frankenstein is an exceptional example of a novel that demonstrates what was important during the time it was written. Frankenstein follows the story of an eccentric scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who creates a destructive, vindictive being that destroys everything Victor cares about. Mary Shelley, throughout her novel, uses beautiful literary techniques that concentrate on detail and meaningful representations that combine to bring the novel together. Her characters, in both their flaws and virtues, represent the ambition, repression, and maladaptive
Those who served away from combat sincerely believed the war was a time for young men to show dedication, patriotism and admiration for their country, authors who served actively in combat knew different. While it is easy to be innocently ignorant of the truth, Wilfred Owen was not oblivious to what was happening to his generation. “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a shortened version of “dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”, which can be roughly translated to “it is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country”. The common approach to getting young men to sign up for the war was to tell them that it was the right thing to do for their country. But Wilfred Owen, in his poetry, showed that nothing was honorable about ruining your life for a country that could replace you with more eager young men, ready to sacrifice themselves. Owen, having witness firsthand what happened during combat, he told recruiters, “you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori” (Owen 25-28). Because Wilfred Owen showed the truth about World War I and the honest way it affected his generation, his work receives a place in The