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    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This quote was written by George Orwell in his book Animal Farm, one of Orwell’s most famous novels. Throughout history the subject of a distant dystopia has always been explored in many works of literature. The possibility of humanity falling into a bleak and totalitarian society has always fascinated readers. These stories and themes can come to define an author and their legacy as a writer. There is no greater example of…

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    Romanticism

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    physical materialism and rationalism in the 18th century in Britain, Romanticism extolled the beauty of nature, the individual emotions and intelligence. Percy Shelley, one of the most preeminent representative poets during British Romanticism period, largely defined Romanticism on both the passion and beauty of nature and the despair of his own life. “Shelley was a poet for whom the millennial promise of the French Revolution had not been realized but might still be achieved. He despised the…

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    Locke And Hoffman's Poetry

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    For the Poet to successfully accomplish their responsibility, they must accept who they are and the conditions of their role. In Alastor, the Poet has arrived at the end of his life, yet he does not despair. Shelley…

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    Power In Ozymandias

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    and power are positive, progressive emotions. Depending on how much one allows these emotions to consume their life, the subject can become egocentric and careerist. This idea can be proven using many examples, one being the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley. Ozymandias, the King described in the poem, deals with the fall of his empire due to his selfish ways. Through the depiction of Ozymandias’ demeanor and the language of the poem, the Sculptor exposes Ozymandias’ arrogant passion and power,…

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    The Power of Love in “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biographical Material Born in 1806, Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning spent her early years studying the works of writers such as John Milton and William Shakespeare. Before starting to write herself, she developed a respiratory illness and suffered a spinal injury that resulted in her being labeled as an invalid (Brackett). Despite all of her health issues, Barrett lived a full literary life and published her first major…

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    Mary Jane Kelly Murder

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    The only thing that is truly certain about Mary Jane Kelly life was that she died on November 9, 1888. Most of her life is shroud in mystery and filled with stories she told but supported by little evidence. Her former lover Barrett had the task of recounting her life during the investigation into her murder. It was said that she hailed from Limerick, Ireland. Mary suggested she had several brothers and sisters and some extended family that she at one time lived with, in Wales before she settled…

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    Romantic Period Ferdinand Eugene Victor Delacroix was a French painter whose work embodied the 19th-century romanticism. He not only had a profound influence on the Romantic Movement, his influence shaped the work of impressionists (Eugène Delacroix). Delacroix was born on April 26th, 1798, in Charenton, France, the son of Charles Delacroix, who served briefly as the minister of foreign affairs under the Directory (Delacroix, Eugène). His mother, Victoire Oeben, had an ancestry that could be…

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    Mary Shelley: Loss, Love, & Literature Mary Shelley, this name might not ring a bell in your head. But this title sure can, “Frankenstien”. This thrilling horror story was written by Mary Shelley and because of this story, there has been some other books written as spoofs of the original “Frankenstein”. This author made a classic horror story and she also wrote many other stories of the romantic/gothic culture that lives on to this day. But how was her writing created? Death was born on to Mary…

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley grew up to become an essayist, biographer, short story writer, and novelist, most notably known for her novel ‘Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus’, published in 1818. Shelley led a complicated private life and suffered much ostracism due to her relationship with poet, playwright, author, and married man Percy Bysshe Shelley, which later came to be her husband. Shelly lost three of her children prematurely causing her to go into a deep depression. Even after…

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    Ozymandias Poem Analysis

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    First published in the 11 January 1818. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English literate who wrote many poems and one of the most famous one is Ozymandias. In the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, he describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. We know from the title that he’s talking about Egypt. The poem starts out with several imageries such as “stone”, “desert”, “sand” and “half-sunk”. Here, the stone represents nature that has…

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