Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Mont blanc

Percy and Mary Shelley both see and talk about an experience about seeing Mont Blanc, and they had some of the same tights but Mary also had another thought when she is thinking about Mont Blanc. Percy Shelley when he sees Mont Blanc, he feels a sense of awe and amazement. He wants people to know that there are things that make people realize that they are just a little ant in the big world of amazing things. While Mary takes it one step further and shows it in Frankenstein. "The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock. From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty" (Shelley 71). Mary Shelley describes the sight of Mont Blanc in a way that represents both an amazing view point, and a high point that may symbolizes a change in how someone sees something. This connects to romanticism because the sense of awe is a goor representation of how people might have felt when people would do astonishing things during the time of romanticism. 

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