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A book about a man who seals his own demise by reanimating a patchwork corpse quilt? How Romantic.

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00:03

When we think of Frankenstein we don't necessarily think romantic it's tough [Man wearing a superman t-shirt thinking of Frankenstein]

00:08

to picture of the monster proposing at a candlelit dinner and not just because

00:12

he's sometimes depicted as being afraid of fire [Frankenstein runs away as candles are waved in front of him]

00:15

we don't mean romantic in that sense though Frankenstein is deeply influenced

00:19

by romanticism and artistic literary and intellectual movement that peaked in the

00:26

first half of the 19th century one of the key elements of romanticism was a

00:30

focus on emotions art was all about feeling all sort of big powerful [Mans head opens and feelings spew out]

00:36

feelings and then once you've calmed down a bit molding those feelings into

00:40

art once we had intense constipation it led to this super-awesome ceramics good [Man experiences intense constipation]

00:45

blob okay so some people are better than others at expressing their emotions

00:50

whatever romantics were also really into nature even though there were bustling [A field of grass and trees]

00:55

cities all over Europe during the Romantic period romantics prefer to

00:59

withdraw to natural places like mountaintops and not just because you [Man stood on the side of a mountain top]

01:04

can see some really great goats up there and occasionally hear the Von Trapp

01:06

singing about some really great goats all right well Nature gave romantics the

01:11

chance to find something they were often seeking the sublime well to experience [A forest filled with high trees]

01:15

the sublime is to feel overwhelmed and almost terrified by intense beauty this

01:20

is a very particular kind of beauty the kind you see when looking down from huge [A man terrified by the beauty of the view on top of the mountain]

01:24

mountaintops not so much time you see in Beauty Salons

01:27

unless someone gets a really intense haircut the sublime wasn't only great

01:31

because it was gorgeous and overwhelming it also allowed the romantics to quiet

01:36

their mind allowing them to give in to those powerful emotions that drove their [Man in a misty location looking into the distance of a mountain]

01:40

art because when you're staring into an unfathomable abyss it's really tough to

01:45

think about boring stuff like what you need at the grocery store right finally

01:50

romantics prize the individual well the romantic individual sought sensation and [Man handed a individual trophy]

01:56

adventure seeking to shape the world with their desires and values in other [Man changing the shape of the Earth]

02:00

words this person might have a lot of fun and write some great poems but [Man writing a poem]

02:04

they're not exactly a team player which is why there are many more famous

02:07

romantic artists than romantic quarterbacks these ideas were all [A quarter back tackled inside a library]

02:11

floating around when Mary Woolsten Craft Godwin was writing

02:14

Frankenstein and they had noticeable effects on her work not to the point

02:18

that the character Victor Frankenstein just hung out on sublime mountaintops [Victor Frankenstein hanging out on a mountaintop with goats]

02:21

with goats all the time but you know it might be pretty up there but with all

02:25

the wind it's not exactly the ideal place to start reanimating human flesh [Frankenstein blowing away in the wind off a mountaintop]

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