- The creatures of Prometheus (1801) is a song composed by Ludwig Van Bethoven.
- Prometheus is the bringer of fire and took fire from the gods to give to mankind. He was punished by the god of Jupiter and tied to a rock whilst vultures came to eat out his Liver everyday for 30 years.
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the modern Prometheus (1818).
- Prometheus is the adopted god of romanticism.
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- Percy Shelly's Ozymandias- Also known as Ramesses II, ruled Egypt for 67 years and was one of the great Pharaohs. She wrote a famous sonnet about him in January 11 1818.
- The Egyptian empire in the time of Ozymandias was the most powerful in the world, but at the time when Percy Shelly wrote her sonnet, the British empire was the most powerful. So I find it extremely pretentious of the British to bring the Statue of Ozymandias to the British Museum. Because its almost as if the British are saying that they are great because they have everything that's great from other countries in there own country. I'm pretty sure that Ramesses himself would of preferred his statue to stay in Egypt.
- Rousseau loved mountains and enjoyed walking. He lived on a Island close to Vienna, this was because his ideas were often controversial, so therefore he was often run out of towns.
- Rousseau believed in nature and that civilisation had corrupted us. He believed we once were 'Natural', 'Free' people before there was civilisation.
- He believed that people who were not from a civilisation were pure and innocent human beings. He thought that humans should be more like animals, because he thought that animals were innocent, pure and beautiful creatures.
- He once came across the people of Tahiti and thought they were all happy, free people so he believed that people should be more like them.
- One of his most popular quotes is ' Man is born free but everywhere is in chains '.
- He believed that civilisation began when a man put down his stick/fence and said 'this is my land'. He believed that what should of happened was that someone should of picked up that stick and said 'dont be stupid, this is not your land, this is our land'.
- He thought that babies were beautiful because they had not yet been tampered with by civilisation. He also thought that we could not go back into our purest form, which was in nature.
- He believed in a ' General Will ' were he thought that as long as everybody agreed on something, there would be no loss in freedom for anyone.
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- The dangers of the ' General Will ' is that if someone doesn't agree with it, then they will not be truly free in Rousseau's eyes.
- The legacy of Rousseau was the Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen, which was used at the end of the French Revolution.
- Wordsworth said that the revolution seemed to bring Rousseau's idea of natural man to reality. This was the romantic movement in action.
- Starting from 1972 the reign of terror began. In 1972 Paris was attacked by Prussia, which meant that the citizens of Paris were armed.
- In 1973 the Guillotine was invented and it was thought that everybody should be executed the same way. So that year the King was executed by the Guillotine just like any normal citizen would be, whereas before the King would have been executed by Sword and normal citizens would have been executed in which ever way thought possible.
- Mary Wollstonecraft believed that education was the key, she believed that there is nothing different between a man and a women when they are born. She believed that as long as women were educated , they could be equal to men. She admired and believed in John Locke's theory about human beings being born like a blank slate. She also had a love hate relationship with Rousseau..........
