The Sorrows of Young Werther

There is a question in the textile world that always seems to have two answers. “Did humans realize that plants and bugs could excrete dye first, or did humans gain the desire to color their textiles first?” The answer to the question is often debated. With archeologists finding new things everyday, our answers are often re evaluated. Its hard to make a concrete decision when our growth on the knowledge of history is always changing. It can be assumed that dying textiles started in different…

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly the main character Victor Frankenstein studies natural sciences and becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life. He continues at his idea and eventually creates a humanoid know through the novel as “the creature.” He abandons this creature and leaves it to fend for itself. Although Victor and his creation are separated for a majority of the novel they have many similarities. Throughout the novel there some of the most notable similarities between the…

His knowledge his greatly enhanced as he discovers an abandoned leather satchel with three books named Milton's Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives and The Sorrow of Young Werther. He considers these volumes as his treasures as they have an immense importance to him. The creature is enthralled with each of these volumes reading each one “as a true history” (pg 92) and considers Milton's story of the struggle between…

Frankenstein After I read the Frankenstein, I know that the story is about a Swiss aristocrat Frankenstein who had studied in Germany for Electrochemical and life then he discovered the secret of death and decided to proceed with the manufacture of life. He started looking for material in the body, then assembled, and finally be activated by means of electrochemical methods. However, all originally made from good material, up to 8-foot monster after being given a life he was so ugly, then…

Frankenstein is arguably one of the most well-known horror stories known in contemporary society. Since its publication in 1818, various film and literary adaptations have been due to its popularity and critique of human morality in the face of technological innovation. Although promoted as one of the first science fiction novels, Frankenstein contained more elements of horror stemming from its gothic elements and romantic thought aside from its components of science fiction. By examining the…

They were attracted to rebellion and revolution. They mainly cared about the individualism and imagination. Some of the characteristics of American Romanticism are characters and setting set apart from society, characters that were not of our own conscious kind, formal language, supernatural foreshadowing, universe in mysterious, and gaps in causality. In addition, some of the themes American Romanticism produce are: emotional intensity, common man as hero, equality, individualism, Manifest…

school, Goethe met Johann Gottfried Herder who introduced him to reading different works of literary geniuses that include Homer, Ossian and Shakespeare.(1) This influenced his writing and allowed him to write a composition in 1774 named, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” that brought him worldwide success. This piece built a strong reputation for Goethe and gave the German people a literary figure to look upon to in life. In this paper, I will look at how the monument in Chicago was put up in…

blown away by the gruesome tales Poe crafts from his own mind. Due to such morbid tales, Poe is generally perceived to be continuously depressed, which is a unique circumstance that can provoke interest from nearly any reader. In 1818 Mary Shelley, a young author from England anonymously published Frankenstein. The novel Frankenstein…

French family. He says, "My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language" (105). In addition to learning how to speak, the monster learns how to read. He finishes texts, such as, Paradise Lost and The Sorrows of Young Werther, which also draw parallels to the story of creation. In this scenario both the creator and the creation study because in order to understand life. Frankenstein longs to find understanding in a scientific sense, while the creature…

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…