• Works that have passed the test of time
• No representation of women or people with color
• Changes made by getting widened through time

1. A speech (topic(s), audience, meant to be heard)
2. An artful weave of words
3. Contains a musical element

1. Rhyme/meter
2. Flow (purposeful placement of words)
3. Parallelism (words that end in same tense, line lengths)

1. Neoclassicism
2. Romanticism
3. Realism/Naturalism
4. Modernism

Order and masses

1. No Individuality
2. Structured

• Stress Individuality, emotions, senses
• W.W. + Coleridge

• Precepts of romanticism
• John Keats, Mary Shelley

1. 1st Gen
2. French Revolution (Great Literary Interference)
3. 2nd Gen

• Imagination
• Idealization of childhood
• Sensory experiences
• Memory
• Perception
• Isolation

• Real self
• Romantics say we are trapped in this frame and freedome comes when we escape it
  • Meditation, dreams, praying

• Partners with coleridge (suffered depression and became addicted to opium)
• Highly Educated

• Shortly after born, mom died and was raised by dad
• Educated by her dad and exposed to all the great books at the time
• Dad busy, Shelley resembles an orphan
• Gave birth to a child that died night before she wrote Frankenstein

• Epistolary Work
• Shelters Mary from the novel
• Takes domestic topic, family

• What happens in childhood effects who you become as an adult
• Concept of an anti-hero (like darth vader)
• Science (darwinism)
• Medical (mastechtomy, remove breast cancer)
• Scientist Galvari: Jolted frog with electricity and muscles moved
• Nature vs. Nurture
• Educational Models

• Nurture - personality comes from experience
• Nature - born with personality traits (genes)

Intro   →   rising action → climax → falling action → Denoument

(characters,    (conflict increases)                        (resolution)                (tying up loose

 who's who)                                                                                                  ends)

• 1 dimensional
• Static
• Little psychological depth
• Plot mover

Ex: In frankenstein - Elizabeth and Justine

• Multidimensional
• Kinetic
• Psychologically developed
• Reader aware of character even when he/she is not in the scene

Ex: In Frankenstein - Victor and the Creature

Film Differences

- Frankenstein has assistant

- Assistant steals "abnormal" brain

- Writes to elizabeth about     experiments

- Henry and Victor's names switched

- Professor tells them Frankenstein wishes to create life

- Lab is in watchtower

- Lets them into lab to see

- Monster kills assistant and professor

• Line of ancestors
• Where one comes from

• Power of Language
  • Kings english is preffered over others
• Power of Silence
• "other" ness
  • Marginalization, when you're in the "other" category your not mainstream

• Not from wealthy family
• Mom contracts T.B. and dies
• Worked as surgeons assistant
  • Encounters death, agony
• Brother contracts T.B. and dies
• All poetry written before he contracts T.B. and dies at 25
• Started Cockney school of poetry

Wordsworth = "egotistical sublime"

Wordsworth called Keats' poetry vulgar

• Dream or vision vs. reality
• Joy vs. Melancholy (unhappy, sad)
• Ideal vs. Real
• Mortal vs. Imortal
• Separation vs. connection
• Transcient sensation or passion vs. enduring art
• Interest in passion vs. desire to escape passion

To apply the aspects of one element of nature to another; combine different sences in one image

1. Part of their sentual effect
2. Indicates underlying unity of dissimal happenings

• Embrace "real" not "ideal"
• Emphasize verisimillitude (truthful represent.)
• Character more important than plot
• Emphasis on working class
• Devaluing "Hero" (hero is working class)

Ex: Mark Twain + Charles Dickens - Social issues in writing, teaching/lesson

• Darker version of realism
• Jungian "darkness" (each human has a dark side)
• Scientific "reality" (set up novels/characters like a scientific experiment)

Alienation

Guilt

Lack of communication

• Gregor -> Bug
• Grete takes on responsibility
• Family blossoms when he is gone

• Relationship with father
• Physical state is an obstacle
• isolated/alienation
• Guilt he felt
• Not being able to communicate
• Doesnt like his work
• Loyalty

• Creature tries to use english but looks horrible
• Kafka not accepted by jews or czech christians
• Miscommunication