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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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cities all over Europe during the Romantic period romantics prefer to

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

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

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

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

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

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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]

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mountaintops not so much time you see in Beauty Salons

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

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

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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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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floating around when Mary Woolsten Craft Godwin was writing

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

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

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

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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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