Apr. 14 blog entry - The role of women in Middlemarch and the implications

  1. Dorothea’s power: “…and this strange unexpected manifestation of feeling in a woman whom she had approached with a shrinking aversion and dread, as one who must necessarily have a jealous hatred towards her, made her soul totter all the more with a sense that she had been walking in an unknown world which had just broken in upon her.” (ch.81) 

    Arctic Exploration

    This is possible the area that Walton from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein could have been exploring in his travels. As the Arctic Sea is so vast and wide, we can't pinpoint everywhere that each fictional explorer went.

    The Arctic

    Upon the first reading of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, you might be surprised to discover it opens and closes the story in the Arctic. While this may have metaphorical connotations, the Arctic was actually a subject of interest within the 1800s. There was a genre dubbed "polar-fiction" that came about after the romantic period, but we can still see it's coming within Romantic and Gothic literature. In Coleridge's "Rhime of The Ancient Mariner", the poem mentions ice around the ship.

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