Fielding was undoubtedly Augustan in his beliefs in the stability of social rules and the necessity of a social and psychological compromise, but his mocking attitude towards literary stipulation represents a more moderate Augustan replication. ... Where the classical was obsessed with order, the gothic exemplified chaos; where simple and pure, Gothic was ornate and lustful; where tradition was expected to be followed, the Gothic represented boundless exaggeration; and where reason was respected, imagination took hold. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while...

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Fielding was undoubtedly Augustan in his beliefs in the stability of social rules and the necessity of a social and psychological compromise, but his mocking attitude towards literary stipulation represents a more moderate Augustan replication. ... Where the classical was obsessed with order, the gothic exemplified chaos; where simple and pure, Gothic was ornate and lustful; where tradition was expected to be followed, the Gothic represented boundless exaggeration; and where reason was respected, imagination took hold. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while...

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and fate; of lust and power, of monsters of the deep unconscious and of unknown but overwhelming beings which fill our nights with nightmarish dreams and make us fear our sleep, but which, rightly used, can be fruitfully integrated into our personality. J.A. HADFIELD The essence of the Frankenstei...

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Her appeals to the imagination, isolation, and nature represented typical scenes and themes explored in some Percy Shelley's poetry (Telgen, pg191)." ... It was accomplished by showing how conceded the people in the story were, because they assumed that the creature was retched and evil, not taking the time to know his true sensitive being; this therefore established the theme of appearances vs. reality. ...

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A classic gothic novel emphasises fear and terror. It has the presence of the supernatural, the placements of events within a distant time and an unfamiliar and mysterious setting. Romantic writer Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein conforms to these conventional "classic" Gothic traits as well as t...

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Shelly's "Prometheus Unbound- is relentless in his resistance and glorifies the virtues of revolt, representing authority (political, religious and scientific) as responsible for man's sufferings. ... "Neither evil nor inhuman, [the creature] comes to seem little more than morally uniformed, poorly `put together` by a human creator who has ill served both his creation and his fellow humans [ ] (Telotte, 1995, p. 76). ...

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