Romanticism, Prometheus, & Frankenstein Letters 1-2

Romanticism is a movement in all of these EXCEPT

• literature

• art

• music

• philosophy

• movies

The Romantic movement was a reaction against

• the Industrial Revolution/Enlightenment

• the Great Awakening/Puritanism

• the Transcendentalists/Gothic literature

• Modernism

Which is NOT an ideal of Romanticism?

• Focus on emotions/feelings - intuition/gut feelings are more important than reason and logic.

• The Sublime - an overwhelming feeling of awe inspired by nature.

• The individual, common man and independence are more important than society/working in a group.

• Humans are naturally evil and need civilization and its laws/rules to keep them in line.

Evidence that a piece of literature is Romanticism might include

• A focus on rationality and evidence

• Exploration of individual feelings and experience

• Detailed description of nature and its overwhelming power and beauty

• Clear reasoning and fact-based explanations

In a "Frame story,"

• a narrator introduces and tells or presents the main tale, as a story-within-a-story.

• the story is "framed" as being true when really it isn't.

• the narrative is built on a structure like that of a house.

• this isn't a thing, Larkin is just messign with us.

To whom is the first letter addressed?

• Robert Walton

• Victor Frankenstein

• Margaret Saville

• No one

What is the letter-writer's goal?

• To find the monster

• To get married

• To see part of the world no one has ever seen before

• To make friends

Which is NOT one of the scientific matters the letter-writer wants to study?

• Magnetism/what makes compass needles point North.

• Discovering a passage through the arctic to other countries.

• Observing the stars and other celestial phenomena.

• Learning how to reanimate the dead.

What does the letter-writer want, that he's never had before, based on letter #2?

• A wife

• A friend

• A child

• A donut

The letter-writer gives a long description of how noble and great the ship-master is, but says they can't really be friends because...

• the ship-master is uneducated.

• all he ever talks about is "the rope and shroud," aka sailing (15).

• because Robert is too "romantic" (13).

• he is "madly desirous of glory" (13).