Shelley's Frankenstein is host to a range of significant gothic elements, evident through Victor's creation of the gigantic creature, the dark setting of the novel, set in places of gloom and horror, and the disempowered portrayal of females, in which women are threatened by the tyranny of males and are often in distress. ... In her 1831 introduction, Shelley declares her desire to think of a story which would speak to the "mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror " one to "curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart". ... In Frankenstein, the multitud...

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Blake uses dark and frantic images signifying paucity, violence, illness and decease because he wishes to convince the reader of melancholy and morbid. ... He articulates that the "sordid boon" we have "given our hearts" is the avaricious development of humans. ... In "Tintern Abbey" he writes about a "green pastorical landscape" and claims that "nature never did betray /the heart that loved her." ...

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John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied snow: if, passing to the edge of a sheet of it, upon the Lower Alps, early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little round openings pierced in it, and through these emergent, a slender, pensive, fragile flower, whose small, dark purple, fringed bell hangs down and shudders over the icy cleft that it has cloven, as if partly wondering at its own recent grave, and partly dying of very fatigue aft...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate