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Mont Blanc + Frankenstein: THE SUBLIME
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Mont Blanc, the sublime and Frankenstein
Sublime refers to the quality of greatness,
whether physical, moral, intellectual, aesthetic,
spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers
to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation,
measurement or imitation
Romantic artists during the 19th century used the vast, epic qualities of nature as an expression of the sublime. Remember this guy?
Why does Victor want to leave his family and
go alone to Mont Blanc? Might it because "the experience of the sublime involves a self-forgetfulness where personal fear is replaced by a sense of well-being and security when confronted with an object exhibiting superior might" (good old wikipedia)? Have a think about why Victor feels the need to go alone to the Alps at this point and why Shelley CONSCIOUSLY sets the first post-creation meeting of Victor and the "wretch" in that very specific place....
Meanwhile, how do these pictures and films of Mont Blanc make YOU feel?
Times have changed since the Romantic heyday however...