Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the poem, Love’s Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley suggests through imagery, personification, speech act, and the structure of the poem that love completes meaning of life since everything in nature pairs, and that without love, everything is in vain. Shelley uses nature to demonstrate the complementary pairings. “The fountains mingle with the river/ And the rivers with the ocean” connect these flowing substances together. Without one of them, there will be a gap, a lay of land separating the…

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the origins of masculinist conventions in science fiction. Mary Shelley was a nineteenth century woman writer, best known for her science-fiction novel Frankenstein. Being a female author was a rather rare occupation in a time where men were generally the dominant and active participants in society. Female authors such as Shelley were generally confined in their writing by the male conventions that existed in the society they lived in, which, with exceptions,…

Daisy Miller Literary Analysis In a specific sense, Henry James' "Daisy Miller" appears to mirror a period that has passed, a period in which the idea of strict physical and geological versatility was quite recently starting to encourage one's social portability. In "Daisy Miller," the peruser experiences characters who travel and embed themselves into different social orders just as a methods for stating and confirming their social family. The setting of Daisy Miller is one portrayed by…

They chase him into the wilderness, where he comes across Victor’s brother, William. Terrified and angry, the Monster kills William and plants evidence on Justine Moritz. He then kills Elizabeth Frankenstein, Victor’s wife. Because of the creativity Shelley used with the narration, Frankenstein comes full circle in the end, with Victor chasing the Monster into the Arctic and being rescued by Robert Walton’s research…

Mary Wollstonecraft or as many of us know her as Mary Shelley was born on August 30th 1797 in London, England. She was the daughter of philosopher and political writer William Godwin and gained feminist Marry Wollstonecraft, Shelly never knew her mother due to the fact that she died shortly after her birth, and she was raised by her father. In 1816 Shelley married Percy Bysshe then two years later published the novel Frankenstein. At first the novel was published under her husband’s name because…

Our world is filled with so many unexplained phenomena, ones we don’t even question as they happen. Déjà vu, dreaming, and even any paranormal activity, we dismiss as either impossible or so much part of our daily lives that they don’t even matter. But how do we know for sure that none of these occurrences actually affect our daily lives? Some of the paranormal phenomenon that we usually brush off may actually play a huge part in our lives, without us knowing. Doppelgangers, a concept that…

sheets" (Shelley 34). Victor gets nature into the scene as he portrays the climate. Additionally, in Frankenstein, Victor is continually isolating himself far from society, and he is set up to break all bonds with his family and companions keeping in mind the end goal to seek after his eager objectives. Amid the time that he is making the animal, Victor "[neglects] the scenes around [him]" and "likewise [forgets] those companions who were such a large number of miles truant" (Shelley 33). As…

me…forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy” (Shelley 129). Nature affects the creature exceedingly, turning his emotions in a complete 180°, in spite of being lonely. The creature is in comfort of the beauty of nature. However, life quickly reverts back to the ugly truth, “sav[ing] a human being from destruction, and a recompose I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone” (Shelley 130). The imperfection of human beings marred the glory of…

In “Mutability”, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and “She Walks in Beauty”, by Lord Byron, the sonnets show the simple beauty of natural humans and how complex it can be. In “She Walks in Beauty”, the woman is analyzed through contradictions from “dark” and “bright”. The sonnet emphasizes on how someone’s beauty is perfection because amongst all the darkness, she still illuminates with her purity. Byron is viewing this woman through exaggeration of unnatural beauty, but somehow her contradicting…

In the 1800’s, the word “romance” was not used as it is today. The American Scholar A.O. Lovejoy once observed that the word 'romantic ' has come to mean so many things that, by itself, it means nothing at all. Contradictory to the previous statement, F.L. Lucas counted 11,396 definitions of the word, and synonymous usage for ‘romantic’ show that it is perhaps the most remarkable example of a term that can mean many things in accordance to personal and individual needs (Introduction to…