1. Frankenstein and

2. Connections?

3. Read and Respond: “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. Walt Whitman

4. The way a person is raised has more influence over his/her character and actions than his/her genetic traits.

5.  Humans have no business interfering with natural processes like the creation/cloning of life.

6. A creator is always responsible for his creation.

7.  Progress must allow for a certain amount of destruction.

8. Subtitle and Epigraph “or, The Modern Prometheus” Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? -John Milton, Paradise Lost

9. Romanticism: 1770-1860  Backlash to the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason  5 I’s:  Imagination (necessary for creation of art)  Intuition (feeling over reason)  Individualism (independent thought)  Idealism (making the world a better place)  Inspiration (NATURE, using imagination)

10. Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People,” 1830 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8

11. Mary Shelley: 1797-1851

12. Percy Shelley: 1792-1822

13. Mary Wollstonecraft: 1759-1797

14. Lord Byron: 1788-1824