Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Mont Blanc and Frankenstein (romanticism)

In “Frankenstein”, Victor decides to travel to the summit of Montanvert. When he sees the pure, beautiful nature covered with glacier, he feels the sublime spectacle from nature. As he says “They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it”. In “Mont Blanc” by Percy Shelley, he describes Mont Blanc as mountain around with ice and rock. He feels that death is slumber and it's a circle. Also he recommends people to feel deeply. Both of them are relating to the Romantic Movement. As I quote “The veil of life and death? Or do I die. In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep” and “large codes of fraud and woe; not understood. By all, but which the wise, and great, and good. Interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel. They emphasized the feeling of a sublime nature from external experience by feeling of awe and tranquillization. 

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