Midterm

Question 1

Wuthering heights

Answer 1

Am I prepared for this section of the midterm?

Question 2

Frankenstein

Answer 2

Am I prepared for this section of the midterm?

Question 3

Rime of the mariner

Answer 3

Am I prepared for this section of the midterm?

Question 4

Romantic authors and values

Answer 4

Am I prepared for this section of the midterm?

Question 5

Victorian authors and values

Answer 5

Am I prepared for this section of the midterm?

Question 6

List major values of the Romantic era

Answer 6

Nature, EMOTIONS, truth, childhood, connections, death, family, vivid visuals, POETRY, nature has value

Question 7

List major authors of the Romantic era

Answer 7

Mary Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Byron, Bram Stoker, Science/anti-science, ‘human nature, glorification of the ordinary,

Question 8

List major values of the Victorian period

Answer 8

Individualism, responsibility, patriotism, morality, realism, people have value

Question 9

What happens to the albatross in the Rime of the Mariner?

Answer 9

It’s shot by the captain, and then the weather gets good, so the sailors aren’t pissed at the mariner for killing a so-called good omen. Then the ship is cursed: the wind stops. With an albatross around his neck, they all get so thirsty that when the mariner sees a ship, he bites himself and drinks blood to alert the crew. Death and Life-in-death (from the ship), bet on the death of the crew. The crew dies and then comes back to life as pseudo-zombies. Hermit, Pilot, and co-pilot save Marnier from the sinking ship. The Hermit prays, and after the Marnier is compelled to tell his story to certain people since then.

Question 10

List major authors of the Victorian era

Answer 10

Emily Bronte, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathanial Hawthorne, Charles Dickens

Question 11

What happens in Frankenstein until Victor meets the creature?

Answer 11

Victor is picked up by a ship sailing (Walton) to the North Pole, and he tells his story. Grew up in Geneva, schooled in Ingolstat. Made the creature while at university, is fucking haunted by it.

Question 12

What happens in Frankenstein after Victor meets the creature?

Answer 12

Victor denies Creature request of a wife and a life alone, hence: mortal combat. Creature kills Henry and Elizabeth, and Victor dies aboard the ship, and the Creature weeps at his Creator then excuses himself to go die

Question 13

List every Frankenstein character you can think of

Answer 13

Justine Moritz- girlmaid, executed for murder
Victor, Elizabeth, Creature, Henry Clerval- bff, Alphonse & Caroline- parents, Ernest- bro.,

Question 14

List every elder Wuthering Heights character you can think of

Answer 14

Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar, Isabella, Mr. Ernshaw, Hindley, Nelly, Joseph

Question 15

List every younger Wuthering Heights character you can think of

Answer 15

Linton, Hareton, Young Cathy,

Question 16

What happens in Wuthering Heights?

Answer 16

Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff, Catherine and Heathcliff like each other, Hindley inherits the estate, Catherine marries Edgar, Heathcliff marries Isabella, people die, children aren’t that happy, and then everyone dies or marries their cousin

Question 17

Settings of Wuthering Heights

Answer 17

Thrusscross grange, Wuthering heights, the moors

Question 18

List major works/authors of the Romantic era

Answer 18

Shelley- Frankenstein, Shelley-poetry, Lyrical ballads- Wordsworth & Coleridge,

Question 19

Historical context of the Romantic era

Answer 19

American and French Revolutions, Napoleonic wars, industrial revolution

Question 20

Historical context of the Victorian era

Answer 20

Industrial revolution,