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Coleridge allegory, Ancient Rime of the Mariner, explores religion in this story through integrated Christian motifs .The story tells of a man on a voyage who through an impulsive and heinous act changes the course of his life. Throughout the plot, the mariner experiences an internal struggle regarding the crime he committed, killing an Albatross which was perceived as a good omen. In order to gain redemption, take responsibility and understand the consequences of his actions. The mariner’s…

19th-century Romanticism was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement characterized by its emphasis on emotion, individualism, and the love of life. The Romantic hero is a literary archetype that serves as a personification of these ideals. The protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is a prime example of this archetype. Throughout the book Holden is strongly portrayed as an isolated individual, caring more for his own personal views than the paradigm.…

All writers contribute to their chosen genres, either by adopting generic conventions or by exploring these conventions and adapting them to create new aspect of their genre, or even a new genre altogether. Mary Shelley and William Shakespeare exemplify these ideas of adoption and adaptation. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a classically gothic novel, it incorporates the supernatural with the realistic to create a horrific plot with deep psychological characters who’s actions question…

Introduction Throughout the twentieth century and beyond there has been a clear correlation between literary theory and scientific philosophical enquiry. Both have become intrinsically linked with each other, with this direct and complicated relationship being most evident in the field of poetry and poetic theory. Within this field there has been a continued but arguably fractured questioning of this enduring relationship. I propose that there have been within the modern age two main lines of…

In chapter 9 of the Poetics, Aristotle famously claims that poetry is “more philosophic” than history. He grounds this claim in the apparent fact that while universals drive the action of poetry, particulars drive the action of history. In an historical composition, a particular thing happens because a particular person did it at some point in the past, but in poetry, a particular thing happens because it is what is likely according to a universal principle. The particular action in a poetic…

In the eighteenth century, romanticism bloomed from men’s love towards nature. To capture its beauty, romanticists often wrote novels stressing emotions and portraying nature as a pure soul. While nature represented an innocent girl, science imitated a reaper that violates nature’s boundaries. Romantic novels then recorded the battles between logic and feelings. These novels, for example, Frankenstein, a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley, exposes the unethicality of knowledge by describing…

When discussing his perceptions of romanticism in the preface to The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne speaks of a “neutral territory.” Hawthorne envisions the neutral territory as a dream-like state that exists between what is real and what is imagined. In the neutral territory, familiar, mundane objects transform and take on a foreign, mystical quality. It is through this mystical, romantic lens that Hawthorne finds the inspiration to write and to create. Hawthorne remarked that ". . . at…

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1.2 Influences on Nietzsche Nietzsche as a young philologist had some people whom he loved and idolized. These people influenced his thought pattern, behaviour and charism. In the world Nietzsche lived in, one could observe, think, and express his thoughts freely; a tradition which was passed onto him first during his youthful age by German culture with its humanistic schools, its patriotic traditions and its poets. At the age of twenty-five, Nietzsche left Germany for good and was viewing it…

Rip Van Winkle, a short story by Washington Irving, displays elements of the American Romanticism, as the author depicts the natural landscape associated with fantasy. The supernatural is a very prevalent theme in Romantic literature, and so is the love for the natural landscape, in opposition to the modern life in the city. These elements help isolate Rip Van Winkle from society, in a way that when he returns from his fantastic 20-year sleep, he becomes “the local storyteller, demonstrating the…