... references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of the ... 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 ... reason Fra...

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... himself as "unremitting", "dedicated", "tortured", "resistless", "frantic", and "engaged" (33). He admits that he had become "pale with study", "emaciated with confinement" and that he was so focused that he "lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit" (34). His father writes to him, rebuking him for not corresponding. One might dismiss all of this by saying that it ... sinking deeper into despair. This natural and uncontrollable process also suggests the creature sinking closer to hell in his transformation from good to evil; Shelley's use of this imagery once again reflects t...

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