Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; or, the Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period.

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus ", in reference to the novel's themes of the over-reaching of modern man into dangerous areas of knowledge.

Percy Shelley's drama Prometheus Unbound ( 1820 ) contains the following passage in Act I: " Ere Babylon was dust, / The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, / Met his own image walking in the garden.

He concentrated in Latin and Greek, winning a school prize for his translation into Greek verse of part of Percy Bysshe Shelley's play Prometheus Unbound.

Shelley's blank verse in The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound is closer to Elizabethan practice than to Milton's.

Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a play, Prometheus Unbound, which used some of the materials of the play as a vehicle for Shelley's own vision.

Frankenstein's monster ( also called the monster or Frankenstein's creature ) is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.

Demogorgon is also a character in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.

The lines " The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity " can be read as a paraphrase of one of the most famous passages from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a book that Yeats, by his own admission, regarded from his childhood with religious awe:

Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.

* Bennett, Betty T. " Love and Egocentricity: Teaching Alastor and Prometheus Unbound with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

" Shelley's First Major Lyrics and Prometheus Unbound.

Shelley's play concerns Prometheus ' release from captivity, but unlike Aeschylus ' version, there is no reconciliation between Prometheus and Jupiter ( Zeus ).

Mary Shelley, in a letter on 5 September 1818, was the first to describe her husband Percy Shelley's writing of Prometheus Unbound.

However, Shelley's version of Jupiter is unable to overwhelm the will of Prometheus, and Shelley gives the power of reason and conscience to his God: the Unseen Power of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.

Prometheus, then, is also Shelley's answer to the mistakes of the French Revolution and its cycle of replacing one tyrant with another.

Essentially, Prometheus Unbound, as re-wrought in Shelley's hands, is a fiercely revolutionary text championing free will, goodness, hope and idealism in the face of oppression.

Shelley's Prometheus Unbound responds to the revolutions and economic changes affecting his society, and the old views of good and evil needed to change in order to accommodate the current civilization.

Included with the edition was Mary Shelley's notes on the production and history of Prometheus Unbound.

Although Mary Shelley's editing of Prometheus Unbound has its detractors, her version of the text was relied on for many of the later editions.

A Newton Among Poets: Shelley's Use of Science in Prometheus Unbound.

"' Mont Blanc ' and ' Prometheus Unbound ': Shelley's Use of the Rhetoric of Silence.

" Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.

Brittle Innings could for most intents and purposes be considered a sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

The poem's theme is Beauty, but Shelley's understanding of how the mind works is different from Plato's: Plato wrote ( principally in the Symposium ) that Beauty is a metaphysical object existing independent of our experiences of particular concrete objects, while Shelley believed that philosophy and metaphysics could not reveal truth and that an understanding of Beauty was futile.

The first work of modern apocalyptic fiction in English may be Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man, the story of a man living in a future world which is slowly emptied of humanity by a plague.

Shelley's poem " To Constantia, Singing " is thought to be about her:

It may be significant, however, that she was taken ill at about the same time — according to Mary Shelley's journal she was ill on 27 December — and that her journal of June 1818 to early March 1819 has been lost.

Dramatic monologues can also be used in novels to tell stories, as in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and to implicate the audience in moral judgments, as in Albert Camus ' The Fall and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Primarily an alpine farming community, the village began to be visited by tourists in the early 19th century, when Felix Mendelssohn, followed in the 1817 publication of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's History of a Six Weeks ' Tour and Byron's Manfred, in which the scenery of the area is described.

It is a very fine book indeed …" Concerning its relationship to Shelley's novel, Stableford writes that " Brittle Innings seems to me to be the best sequel imaginable.

The same can be said of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

It is at least as old as Karel Čapek's R. U. R., which introduced the word robot to the global lexicon in 1921, and can even be glimpsed in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( published in 1818 ), as Victor ponders whether, if he grants his monster's request and makes him a wife, they would reproduce and their kind would destroy humanity.

It is considered to be one of the first of Shelley's major poems.

Shelley's play is closet drama, meaning it was not intended to be produced on the stage.

Generation Me laid claim to the TNA World Tag Team Championship, claiming that the champions would not be able to defend them for 30 days, due to Shelley's injury, before stealing Sabin's title belt.

Generation Me laid claim to the TNA World Tag Team Championship, claiming that the champions would not be able to defend them for 30 days, due to Shelley's injury, before stealing Sabin's title belt.

Carl Jauch ( 1680 – 1755 ), merchant in Lüneburg, has been a supporter of the theologian, alchemist and physician Johann Conrad Dippel, by some authors debatably claimed to be the model for Mary Shelley's novel " Frankenstein ".

The origins of Shelley's understanding of Beauty and how to attain it can be found within " Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ".

: Shelley's mother pays a surprise visit and is expecting her offspring to be a fully-fledged member of the Royal Shakespeare Company by now.

It should also be noted that Adam is the name given to the monster in Shelley's novel.

In the light of Percy Shelley's later death by drowning, Mary Shelley came to regard the novel as ominous ; she wrote of herself and Jane Williams " driving ( like Matilda ) towards the sea to learn if we were to be for ever doomed to misery ".