Today Neo-Classicism Romanticism
Neo-Classicism Late 1700’s-Early 1800’s Jacques-Louis David Angelica Kauffmann
Thomas Jefferson
Jacques-Louis David Oath of the Horatii Death of Socrates Death of Marat Coronation of the Empress Josephine
Oath of the Horatii
Death of Socrates
Death of Marat
Coronation of the Empress Josephine
Horatio Greenough
George Washington as Zeus
Reminders for Your Project Audience Purpose Importance of the Subject –Discovering It –Communicating/Selling Patience
Angelica Kauffmann Cornelia Pointing To Her Children As Her Treasures
Romanticism Early 1800’s Nature, Nature, Nature Perception and Creation Political Unrest Social Disease / Social Cure The Common People and Beauty
William Blake Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience
William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Frankenstein: Themes Isolation Friendship Family Creation Playing God Limits of Science Humanity
Why the Frame Tales? Walton’s Letters Victor’s Tale Creature’s Tale
What Does the Creature Represent? The Neglected The Underprivileged The Poor The Ugly The Social Outcast The Untouchable The Working Class?
How Does Frankenstein Represent The Romantic Period? Interest in Individual Sympathy for the Downtrodden Relationship Between Humans and Nature Focus on Paradise Lost
Frankenstein and the Enlightenment If we were given reason to understand and control the world (nature), is it not a logical conclusion that our attempts would end in playing god?
The Creature’s Reading List Plutarch’s Lives Milton’s Paradise Lost Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werter
The Creature’s Adopted Family DeLacey Felix Agatha Safie Compare to other adoptions.
Frankenstein’s Bride? Parallel between Creator and Creature Victor’s Refusal The Results
Coffee Break, Anyone?
Romanticism Early 1800’s Nature, Nature, Nature Perception and Creation Political Unrest Social Disease / Social Cure The Common People and Beauty
Romanticism: The Big Seven William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon (Lord Byron) John Keats Mary Shelley
John Constable The Hay Wain (Wagon)
Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People Dante and Vergil in Hell
Francisco Goya Executions of the Third of May, 1808
Jean-François Millet The Angelus Workers at Rest Family at Rest
The Angelus
Workers at Rest
Family at Rest
John Keats
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