Mother and father were
both writers - Father had
revolutionary ideas and
mother was a feminist
Mother
died days
after giving
birth to her
Met Percy Shelley in 1812
who was married - Harriet
Mary and Percy ran off to
France in 1814 and Mary had his
child in 1815 - Died after 12 days
Harriet drowned
herself in 1816
and Mary and
Percy married -
Public outrage
Her second
son, William,
died in 1821,
aged 3
Published
Frankenstein
when she was
20 (1818)
Percy
drowned
in 1822
Died in 1851
Prometheus
Story
1. Man was his favourite
life on Earth - Made him
stand upright like the
Gods and gave him fire
2. Prometheus tricked Zeus
into choosing a bad sacrifice
(Bones wrapped in fat over
good meat hidden the hide)
3. To punish Prometheus, Zeus
took fire away from man, but
Prometheus lit a torch from the
sun and gave it back to man
4. Made Zeus really angry
and he decided to
punish Prometheus and
man greatly
5. Created a mortal of
great beauty but with
a deceptive heart and
a lying tongue -
Pandora, the first
woman. Gave her a
box she wasn't
allowed to open and
placed her with men
6. Pandora
opened the
box and
released
evil,
sorrows,
plagues,
misfortunes
and hope
7. Prometheus
was chained to
the Caucasus
Mountains and all
day and night an
eagle would tear
away at him
8. The only way he could be
released is if an immortal being
died for him and a mortal killed
the eagle or is Prometheus told
Zeus who would mother the
child who would eventually
dethrone Zeus.
9. Eventually
Chiron the
Centaur died
for him and
Hercules
killed the
eagle
Given task of creating man
Shaped him out of mud
Best known as the
benefactor who
bought fire to
mankind
Titan - Not sent to
Tartarus because he
didn't fight with the
other titans
Name
signifies
'forethought'
'The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner'
- Colridge
1798
Poem
The
experiences
of a sailor
who has
returned
from a long
sea voyage
Told to a
wedding
guest who
becomes a
"sadder and
a wiser
man"
Going to
Antactica
All of the crew
members die apart
from the Mariner
The pilot who finds
the ship thinks the
Mariner is the devil
'Paradise Lost' - Milton
1667
Characters
Devil
Son of God
God
Eve
Adam
Rapheal
Michael
About the
Biblical story of
the 'Fall of Man'
The temptation of Adam and
Eve by Satan and their expulsion
from the Garden of Eden
Separated
into 12 books
Poem
Two main narrative arcs
Lucifer just
after he fell
from heaven
Adam and
Eve's
temptation
The sublime
Mr. Pidgeon's
presentation in
'Wuthering
Heights' section