Wordsworth and william Blake
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Nature, as viewed by the authors and poets, as well as the people of the Romantic Era, is a place to go to escape from life's tragedies, and obtain a chance at spiritual renewal. Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and William Blake use their respective writings, Frankenstein, The Nutting, and the Introduction (Songs of Innocence) to demonstrate, through the use of their characters, the ability to once again touch innocence, by the use of nature. However, like many of the monsters in the world, past and present, nature can only help some, for some are already too far engulfed in the world of experience, that even nature cannot help them.
Mary Shelley, perhaps one of the greatest writers of the Romantic Era, creates her view on nature through two of her characters in Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein, the main character in the novel, gives life to a body made of corpses in hope that he can in his own way play God, and give life as either God did to man, or a woman does to her baby. However, upon viewing his creation, he is immediately appalled at what he has done, and rejects it, without even giving it a chance. After the monster is rejected, he wishes to inflict pain on his creator, Victor, by hurting the people around him. He therefore murders the younger brother of Victor, William, and frames Justine for the murder. Justine is then sentenced to death, and with Victor finding out that it was the monster that did this, he knows that he is responsible for both of their deaths. He almost commits suicide, but does not for the sake of his sister and father...