During the novel Shelley uses this idea for the character Victor Frankenstein, who dares to use his imagination to create something real. This idea can be taken and linked to Milton's idea of how the world was created, how God, after expelling Satan and his angels out of heaven, creates another world for the other creatures to live in; ideas such as this were seen as God like, and artistic creativity was seen as God like. ... This is a reference to the novel as Frankenstein tries to create a new species and consequently tries to rival or replace God. ... Frankenstein sees himself as a Fat...

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Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). ... Indeed, the ability of the mind to create states of tranquility that lead to a close understanding of this "eternal act of creation" is found in both "Tintern Abbey" and "A Summer Evenings Meditation." ... From the definition above, it appears that the Imagination functions by recreating, reevaluating, and creating in an effort to perceive a...

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I believe Nietzsche means that art can be a source of new values that create a beautiful illusion or joy and celebration which overrides some of the realities of life, like pain, suffering and uncertainty. ... His belief was theocentric, that the beauty that nature and God had created provided a spiritual connection to beauty. ... Constable painted with a bright, clear atmosphere and straightforward realism capturing the countryside before the industrial revolution creating images that are aesthetically pleasing, with a nostalgic and wistful air to them. ... Millais chose to create a powe...

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