Frankenstein and Romanticism

·         18^th – 19^th Century – “Valued Imagination and emotion, rather than rationality

·         Pushing boundaries

·         Rebellion against aristocrats

·         Anti-society

·         Music – depressive

·         “rite of Spring” Ballet – caused riots

·         More emotion rather than structure.

·         Literature – Keats, Blake and Coleridge – who worked with Wordsworth - was possibly bipolar?

·         Liberal thinkers, anti-religion

·         Colloquial language

·         Idolises pure nature, hated symmetry and perfection

·         Marginalised sections of society

·         The Voyage of Life – Thomas Crusoe.