Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Throughout the book‚ Shelley’s work reflects her personal psychology‚ along with her psychological states. Shelley’s psychological matters such as repressions‚ dreams and desires float consciously and unconsciously throughout the book. Therefore‚ in some ways‚ Frankenstein can be viewed as an autobiographical work rather than a novel. Growing up‚Shelly never had a stable home. Her mother‚ Mary Wollstonecraft‚ a philosopher and feminist‚ died when Shelley was only eleven
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The sole purpose of literature is to be interpreted and to convey an artistic view of happenings in the real world with an underlying meaning. Mary Shelley understood this better than any writer. Shelley herself lived a tragic life‚ but in that life of misery came a masterpiece of literature that would last for two centuries‚ Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. While a good scary tale to read‚ one cannot help but think about the underlying theme or meaning in the tale. The tale itself follows
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more endeavor to discover something so significant that it can entrench itself into the folds of history as truly immortal. Two Romantic poems that engage wonderfully with these themes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. Although they take opposite approaches--Shelley uses “Ozymandias” to express the mutability of life‚ while Keats uses the Urn to show that art can be timeless--both poems revolve around an object struggling against the passing of time. Both
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is Ozymandias‚ king of kings: Look on my works‚ ye Mighty‚ and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck‚ boundless and bare‚ The lone and level sands stretch far away. Introduction: It is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ published in 1818 in the 11 January issue of The Examiner in London. It is frequently anthologised and is probably Shelley’s most famous short poem. Theme: Pride: in the inscription on the pedestal Ozymandias calls himself the "king of
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Nilanjan Dutt Imagery in Shelley’s Ode To The West Wind Ode to the West Wind is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that shows the correspondence between the inner and the outer world of the poet. It is among his famous poems. The major theme of the poem is the poet’s intention to become a force that may bring the change and rejuvenation in man’s life. This theme is metaphorically shown by the rejuvenation of nature through the west wind as an agent. It is described through his excellent use
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To‚ The General Manager‚ BSNL‚ Address Sir‚ I want to lodge a complaint about the unsatisfactory working of my telephone. Only last month a telephone set was installed at our residence. It has been a problem right from the day of its installation. Some times bell starts ringing and we rush to attend the call. By the time we lift the receiver‚ the telephone is dead. It is most of the time dead at the receiver’s end. When we telephone a person‚ he hears us all right but we are unable to hear
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Insignificance of Human beings to the passage of time "Ozymandias" is a sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ published in 1818. It is probably one of Shelley ’s most famous poems and has been anthologized countless times since mid-nineteenth century. From meeting a traveler from “an antique land” (line 1) to “sands stretch far away” (line 14)‚ this masterpiece is full of ironic descriptions and delivers a theme that is the insignificance of human beings to the passage of time. In “Ozymandias”
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Common Knowledge in Academic Papers As you read in the WR last week‚ writers cite borrowed information by providing a signal phrase‚ page number if a printed source‚ url in case of a picture taken from the web‚ etc. One exception to this rule‚ however‚ is whenever the information is common knowledge. Common knowledge is a term applicable to any piece of information that is widely available in basic sources about the subject. In a paper about psychology‚ for instance‚ you wouldn’t need to cite
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Literaria (1817)‚ defined imagination as "the repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation‚" rather than as a mere mechanical flight of fancy. The radical shift in emphasis was further delineated by John Keats in his letters and by Percy Bysshe Shelley in his Defense of Poetry (1821)—"poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Some critics celebrated art for art’s sake‚ with no moral strings attached‚ such as Arthur Symons in The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). Henry
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Griffith‚ G. V. 1997 Frankenstein in the Context of the Romantic Era. Retrieved April 2004 from http://www.enotes.com Hindle‚ M. 1994‚ Mary Shelley Frankenstein Penguin Books‚ London Hunter‚ J. P. (ed.)‚ 1996‚ Mary Shelley Frankenstein. The 1818 Text‚ Contexts‚ Nineteenth-Century Responses‚ Modern Criticism‚ W.W. Norton & Company‚ New York Newey‚ K. 1993‚ Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein Sydney University Press‚ Sydney Schmidt‚ A. 1999‚ The Myth of Prometheus‚ Retrieved April 2004 from http://www.enotes.com
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