“I am malicious because I am miserable… if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear” (Shelley 129). The creature in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, is speaking to his creator when he says this line. His “maliciousness”-- his violence and bad...

When uncontrolled passion is released in a world which has strict restrictions of class structure and rigid social expectations, it can allow an individual to become inspired and empowered. Yet as this individual becomes inspired and empowered,...

Gothic literature is defined as “a recognition of the insufficiency of reason or religious faith to explain and make comprehensible the complexities of life” (Hume 290); as a genre, it is similar and related to Romantic literature, but an element...

In both ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ the writers use different narrative voices to portray their story. Within ‘Wuthering Heights’ Bronte uses Lockwood as the outer narrative and Nelly as the inner narrative to further...

"No Coward Soul is Mine" portrays Emily Bronte's spiritual faith. The world is a sphere troubled by storms. Here storms metaphorically stand for the adversities of life. The persona says her soul is courageous enough to march bravely through those...

Poets of the Romantic era placed great importance on emotions and feelings of the individual, turning inwards to consider the power of the imagination and the freedom it provides. In fundamentally changing the focus of their poetry, Romantics...

For poets writing in the Romantic Era, their work appeared to be a response against the Enlightenment movement which valued logic and reason and rejected emotional and subconscious appeals that the Romantics found to be more favorable. Through the...

Poets of the Romantic movement sought to counteract the prevailing political and social viewpoints of the 18th-19th century. Romanticism was a philosophical movement and reaction against the logical enlightenment and the imagination was used as an...

Poets of the Romantic movement sought to counteract the prevailing political and social viewpoints of the 18th-19th century. Romanticism was a philosophical movement and reaction against the logical enlightenment known as an age of reason which...