My timeline is going to focus on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and it's historical and cultural contextualization with movements like the French Revolution and Romanticism. I will also discuss certain events that occur during these movements and their relationship with Frankenstein.
Fall 2021 ENGL 2540 Online Dashboard
Description
This is space for the Creative Project in the online version of ENGL 2540.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
This gallery is designed to demonstrate through the use of imagery how Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" is a commentary on the social expectations surrounding Victorian women and their sexuality.
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was influenced greatly by events in England in 1819. These events will be explored in this gallery.
Frankenstein offers a critique of the Enlightenment and the excessive drive of science to obtain “proof” of life in the early 19th century through its portrayal of Victor’s monstrosity in his quest to act as God and father and his subsequent failure to understand his responsibility in those roles.
Finding the details as to what events may have lead to the writing of "Porphyria's Lover". Robert Browning wrote a host of dramatic monologue that made him very famous. In the 19th Century women were not considered equal to men, the traditions of victorian women saw them only as housewives and cooks.The poem is spoken by a poetic speaker which helps offer deeper meaning of the poem. Robert Browning offers a poem that shows how woman in the victorian era could be taken advantage of.
I am interested in showing how John Keats reflects his struggles with disease and death during his lifetime in his poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad". A ballad is defined in the dictionary as a poem or song that narrates the author's story they wish to tell. "La Belle Dame sans Merci" truly is a ballad as we can see John Keat's life reflects upon his work in a Pre-Raphealite manner, as one who struggles to escape darkness.
The argument for the paper/project.