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Prometheus

Prometheus. A figure in Greek mythology Created man from clay and stole fire for human use Lauded for contributing to human progress Punished for having the audacity to steal from the gods

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Prometheus

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  1. Prometheus • A figure in Greek mythology • Created man from clay and stole fire for human use • Lauded for contributing to human progress • Punished for having the audacity to steal from the gods • Zeus tormented him for eternity by tying P to a rock and sending an eagle each day to feast on his liver

  2. Romanticism • Romantic Period in English lit is said to have begun around 1789 (the outbreak of the French Revolution) • Celebration of common life, in realistic language, instead of royal or aristocratic characters in an elevated style • An interest in the supernatural • Use of poetic symbolism (Percy Bysshe Shelley said, “I always seek in what I see the likeness of something beyond the present and tangible object.”)

  3. Romanticism • William Wordsworth said that good poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”—spontaneity vs. artful manipulation; organic laws and forms vs. literary rules • Nature as a subject for literature, most importantly as a catalyst for human reflection; Wordsworth said it’s “the Mind of Man” which is “My haunt, and the main region of my song”

  4. Romanticism • Many protagonists of the period are nonconformists, outcasts, isolated rebels— “solitary figures engaged in a long and sometimes infinitely elusive quest” (Abrams 186) • Due to the social promise of the French Revolution, many Romantic writers conveyed a sense of possibility, new beginnings, undaunted aspirations: “Our destiny, our being’s heart and home, / Is with infinitude, and only there” • The glory of the imperfect

  5. Gothic Architecture12th – 16th century Europe; high pointed arch and vault; flying buttresses; intricate recessesGothic Are

  6. Gothic Literature Originally, Gothic literature referred to stories set in “a gloomy castle furnished with dungeons, subterranean passages, and sliding panels; the typical story focused on the sufferings imposed on an innocent heroine by a cruel and lustful villain, and made bountiful use of ghosts, mysterious disappearances, and other sensational and supernatural occurrences … The principal aim of such novels was to evoke chilling terror by exploiting mystery and a variety of horrors … The best opened up to fiction the realm of the irrational and of the perverse impulses and nightmarish terrors that lie beneath the orderly surface of the civilized mind” (Abrams 117 – 118).

  7. Gothic Literature Later, Gothic novels came to refer to “a type of fiction which lacks the exotic setting of the earlier romances, but develops a brooding atmosphere of gloom and terror, represents events that are uncanny or macabre or melodramatically violent, and often deals with aberrant psychological states” (Abrams 118).

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