Welcome back to Freaky Fictional Fridays with Vulpecula! First and foremost, I would like to apologize for being unable to post last Friday. Don’t worry, we will get back to our regularly scheduled blog! I would like to focus on chapter 13 of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Let’s dive deeper into the theme of knowledge within this chapter. Leggo! We, human, are curious creatures who have used our curiosity to make great discoveries, and one of our greatest achievements is the Internet. On top social
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Imagine going through a mental break-down in the 1800’s. How would you react to depression and anxiety? How would cope with these emotions? In this paper, I will explore how mental health is portrayed in the Romantic period through Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. Mary Shelley was known for being a romantic writer with gothic twists. She was married to famous poet Percy Shelly, who was her father’s student. Within her life, she faced tragedy; her mother had died giving birth to her, her sister
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OTIS F. WOOD v. LUCY, LADY DUFF-GORDON, 222 N.Y. 88; 118 N.E. 214; 1917 N.Y. LEXIS 818 Fact: Lady Duff-Gordon was a fashion guru and hired Wood’s agency to have the exclusive right to her endorsement and fashion design. Lady Duff-Gordon was to handle business for Wood and in return, Lady Duff-Gordon was to receive one half of all the income. Lady Duff-Gordon placed her endorsement on fabrics without the knowledge of Wood and withheld the profits from those fabrics. Issue: Whether the contract
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Growing up he recieved his education in Irvine and Greenock. Galt began to study law at Lincoln's Inn, London. In 1809 he set out on a tour of three years to southern Europe and the Mediterranean. During his tour he was accompanied by George Gordon, Lord Byron, whom he later wrote a biography about. In the following years Galt had a total of 40 publications, from novels to art critisism, until his death in 1839. Galt's novels generally invole the important concerns of his times, and they are
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Katie Tousignant ENG 215: 5XA Gothic Art/Music Symphonie Fantastique Hector Berlioz composed the Symphonie Fantastique in 1820. Between 1930 and 1855, he made quite a few changes to his original composition. In the 1845 version of Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz set out to depict a few important scenes in the life of an artist through the music. He split the symphony into five different parts: dreams, a ball, scene in a country-side, the march to the scaffold, and dream of a witches Sabbath.
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After viewing the PPT choose which aspect of the French Revolution you think was the most liberating, compare it to the quote by Mill on page 326 of the text and in four paragraphs (20 sentences minimum) answer the following two part question, 1). Would Mill embrace or reject the French Revolution, and 2) How would the French Revolution fit within the ideas of the Byronic Hero in the text? The French Revolution was a period of upheaval due to the political, social and economic problems that the
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imagination has always delighted in giving them a beau ideal likeness, but I only drew them as a painter or sanctuary would do, -- as they should be.’[1] (Medwin, Nov 1821- Mar 1822 (Cf. Ideality of Art)) p. 195 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage was Lord George Gordon Byron’s first composition which he begun in 1809 and finally completed in 1818. The structure of the poem follows a young promising knight through his journey around Europe. The poem is autobiographical: Byron uses Childe Harold as a fictional figure
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Warning: Beware of Creature On this, the night before Halloween, there are no more appropriate novels than Frankenstein to read. Although Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original intent was simply to participate in a horror story contest with her friends (which she rightfully won), she ended up crafting a well-known, full-length masterpiece. Frankenstein is famous not only for being spooky, but also for its commentary on the themes of dangers of knowledge and hubris, and monstrosity via playing God
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George Gordon Byron, who is often referred to as Lord, was a prominent English writer, poet and aristocrat. One of his most renowned characters was Child Harold - his alter ego, who became the prototype of numerous other heroes in European literature. That’s why even after Byron’s death his books were highly-demanded. The well-known writer was born on January 22nd in 1788 in London. However, his mother soon got divorced and moved with little George to Scotland where her relatives lived. From the
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Ada Lovelace was born in London on December 10th, 1815. Her parents were Lord George Gordon Byron and Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron. They didn’t have a happy relationship, and Lady Byron separated from her husband weeks after Ada was born. A few months later, Lord Byron left England, and Ada never saw him again because unfortunately he died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old. Later on in her life, Ada’s mother hired tutors to teach her science and math. She believed that if Ada engaged in these
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