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After taking the elixir, Reginald has a change in character that not only affects him, but affects his wife, Marguerite. As he describes it, “Marguerite and myself appeared at this time to have changed characters,” and Reginald recognizes how his life has changed through the secrets of the stranger (264). From the beginning of theContinue reading “Husband and Wife: The Role of Power”

William Godwin’s St. Leon displays many of the characteristics that describe the Romanticism period. The characteristic I focused on while reading this novel is the celebration of nature. Godwin represents this quality in two different ways: one, being the nature of the natural world, and one being the nature of humans.             Godwin depicts theContinue reading “The Natural World and Human Nature”

After reading the works of Shelly, Blake, and Barbauld, my interpretation of Romantic prophecy is based on how each of these authors used real events to inspire fantastical ideas about the world. Shelly speaks of the West Wind, which is a real occurrence, and writes how he would like to be moved by the WestContinue reading “What is prophetic?”