How does Lyubov understand the events at Smith Camp?

• What surprised him?
• What is his theory about the Athshenian’s show of violence?
• How does his knowledge affect colonial policy?

What are the differences between Captain Davidson’s perception of the natural environment and Selver’s? Choose two passages to help you elaborate these differences.

Where and how does the creature represent himself as a (Romantic) subject in possession of essential human feelings? Why don’t his feelings earn him a place within the human community? Choose a key episode in his narrative to help you answer the question. Be sure to follow the formula of context, quote, analysis that we’ve been working on.

Provide a close analysis of a quotation from either the scene of the creature’s birth (vol. I, chapter IV) or the meeting between Victor and the creature in the Alps (vol. II, chapter II).

Your close analysis should include all of these elements: context (what is happening when this quotation occurs, who is speaking, what is the setting?), a quotation of the passage you’ve chosen, an explication of the language in the passage (how is language working ? what interesting details arise?) and, finally, an argument about how this passage and/or moment in the text shapes your understanding of the meaning of the whole work.

How does Mary Shelley represent Victor Frankenstein’s education in modern science? Contrast the scientific study of nature as it is represented in the novel with the Romantic “nature cure” that we’ve examined in the writings of Wollstonecraft and Wordsworth. You might also compare Victor’s education at University with the education that he receives in early life in Geneva.

Does the poem “Tintern Abbey” fulfill the expectations that Wordsworth sets up in his Preface to the collection? How do you connect the claims about poetry from the Preface to this particular poetic performance? If you don’t think the poem lives up to the expectations set in the Preface, explain why. Where, possible, include quotations from the poem.

You might focus on any of the following assertions from the Preface (or another assertion of your choosing):

“Poetry fits to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation.”

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”

Poetry expresses the “passions of men [as they] are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.”

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science.”

How does Wordsworth propose to transform the public taste? What kind of poems is he writing and how are they different from the kind of poems the public is used to?

How does Wollstonecraft represent the Scandanavian landscape? What does her description of the landscape reveal about her emotional or psychological situation? Choose a passage to focus on. I recommend you look at pgs. 10, 14-15, 73-74, or 75-76 to form your response.

Please post one of your two article summaries onto the blog.

In Act 4 scene 1, lines 163-180, Prospero delivers his famous “our revels now are ended” speech after being reminded of Caliban’s plot.

Does the speech demonstrate Prospero’s vulnerability? How?

What does the speech suggest about the revels and about Prospero’s power more generally?

Why do you think this speech comes after the news of Caliban’s plot?