that his wife has been caught with another man. The play then shifts to the present day, where a writer, Hannah, meets Bernard, a literary critic. Bernard is in search of what happened to Ezra Chater, who wrote “The Couch of Eros,” while Hannah is studying the hermit of Sidley Park, who is a character unknown. As Hannah and Bernard, along with a graduate student, Valentine, accumulate journals and notes from the characters in the past, Bernard believes that Lord Byron shot and killed Chater. The audience by now has learned that Septimus and and Chater are to duel, for Septimus was the man who had the affair with Mrs. Chater. The duel, however, was called off as Chater and his wife flee the country, along with Lord Byron. The final scene of the play exists both in 1812 and the present, where the two stories overlap. The audience learns that Thomasina is set to die the next year, while a romance between she and Septimus blooms. Hannah and Bernard discover that Septimus is the hermit and that Chater was not killed by Byron. Valentino finds Thomasina’s research and uses it to further fuel his own work. The play ends with Thomasina and Septimus waltzing, along with Hannah and Gus, Valentine’s younger brother. The tortoise, named Plautus in 1809, is used most commonly as a paperweight for Septimus and Thomasina as they study. In the present, it still has the same significance to Hannah and Valentine, who have named the tortoise Lightning. The audience sees Septimus hold Plautus…
Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that emphasizes inspiration and the primacy of an individual. Romanticism in literature originated in Germany, with famous writers Johann Wolfgang and Samuel Taylor, and quickly spread to America around the 1800 's, after English poetry was revolutionized. Romantics often explore faraway places of medieval folklore and legends in their writings. Mary Shelley learned from the experts, using some concepts from her background and tied it into…
“Dover Beach”: In his “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold employs images related to the ocean to establish a theme relating to the cyclical nature of human life. Specifically, he refers to the continuation of misery throughout an individual’s life. This allusion to cycles is supported throughout the poem through the use of tidal imagery. For example, he refers to the French coast and how “the light gleams and is gone” (3-4) This is significant as light often works as a symbol of hope. Therefore, this…
In 1818, Mary Shelley personified the shortcomings of society’s morality in the form of a destructive, ruthless, yet nearly human monster. During an era in which the Industrial Revolution saw the prosperity of the upper class directly lead to the death and poverty of the working class, Shelley wrote Frankenstein to challenge the presence of cultural inhumanity. Shelley’s novel chronicles the life of scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose studies and ambition lead to the creation of a living being…
The Romantic period was one of important periods, Romantic poems have amazing view for the nature and landscape, we also can use term Romanticism to describe particular period, Romantic or Romanticism start in late 1700s to 1820s , the France revolution and the great Napoleonic wars help to forming the Romantic, the most famous and important poets of Romanticism are Percy Bysshe Shelley( the young poet), Thomas DE Quincey and William Wordsworth , according to Ross, he sees that the Romantic…
From blockbuster Hollywood movies to parodies on the internet, the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is commonly portrayed as a “monster”, but is this accusation really true? The creator of the creature, Victor Frankenstein may have more in common with the “monster” than previously thought. Through careful evaluation, we can see the many similarities and differences between the two main characters in the story. In Frankenstein, the similarities between the creature and its creator,…
Lord Byron was a romantic writer whose painful beginnings and peaceful love affairs shaped him into a passionate poet who illustrated his deepest desires with the stroke of his pen. Lord George Gordon Byron was born in 1788 to an aristocratic family. Although considered royal, he had a mother that abused him and a father who abandoned him at a young age. To make matters worse, Byron was born with a physical disability known as “clubfoot”. Byron wanted to escape his circumstances, so he ran away…
In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley often will allude to personal experiences that have happened in her own life. She takes the events of her own life and reflects them through Victor, the monster, and other events in the novel. Examples of this include the deaths of innocent people in the novel, influence of parents, abandonment of a loved one, and how the creation of the novel, Frankenstein, is very similar to Victor’s creation of the creature (Shelley 43). Mary Shelley’s life is death…
upert Chwaner Brooke biography Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) He was an English poet who apparently was described as “the handsomest young man in England” and known for his idealistic war sonnets written during WWI. Brooke belonged to the literary group “Georgian Poets” and he was one of the most important .He had some problems in his emotional life in 1912 caused by sexual confusion and jealousy who resulted the end of his long relationship with Ka Cox(Katherine Laird…
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so the saying says. “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron (George Gordon) is a poem about one woman in particular that the speaker is obviously enamored with. There is no mention of “love” nor “desire” in the poem and it seems that the speaker wants to make that point very clear. It appears more to be an ode to the amazing beauty of a particular woman. However, by the end of the poem it is almost as if the speaker is trying to convince himself that he does not…