The controversies of this period produced one of the classics of liberal thinking, Areopagitica (1644), a treatise by the poet and prose writer John Milton in which he advocated freedom of thought and expression. ... An influential early liberal was the English philosopher John Locke. ... In Britain, liberalism was elaborated by the utilitarian school, chiefly the jurist Jeremy Bentham and his disciple, the economist John Stuart Mill. ... Nevertheless, liberalism reached a stage of crisis at this time, in relation to democracy and economic power, that was important to its later development. ...

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Response Texts in time embody ideological concerns of their period, expressing the impact of influential values and human experience on texts. ... These texts in time not only warn previous societies, but through insights into human experience, offer caution to modern day audiences. ... " Likened to Satan in John Milton's "Paradise Lost", Victor turns from God and the natural, pursuing an obsessive passion, "my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature". ... Both Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" shar...

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