Read Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein and watch one or more of the many films that were inspired by the book. How do the book and film differ? How are they the same? In particular, how is the character of the monster portrayed in each?
During the romantic period, opium was cheap and widely available, and people did not know its use could be harmful. Read some works by romantic writers who claimed to be inspired by opium, such as Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an.....
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