Victor experienced the same feeling when his being became alive and displayed his power: “I had gazed on him while unfinished he was ugly then but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” (Shelley 36). The ability to hurt coming from the horse’s remarkable power is the element of the sublime you experience. The strength of the horse fills your conscience and the only thing you can think of is its power of destruction. It is the most powerful animal you’ve ever seen. The trees and more imposing than any other being on Earth. When you finally turn around, what you perceive is an animal of Second or two before you realize that the icy breeze striking your neck isn’t wind, but This loud noise, but at that exact moment, the Universe becomes silent again. You stop and try to identify the source of Something or someone is crushing the earth.
However, you sense a forceful sound coming from all directions just like if Yourĭeepest fears are clustered in some distant part of your brain, making them impossible to reach. You because the idea that you’ll soon arrive back home settles in your conscience. The darkness of the night is slowly making its way through the forest. In this short fiction that I will share with you, I inspired myself from Burke’s own idea when he explained the This complicated concept can be understood by imagining the feeling of its experience. I will guide you in the understanding of the passion caused by the sublime from power. Victor is able to experience the passion caused by the sublime in POWER due to the being he created. The being that Victor creates is a mighty source of sublimity. Terror infiltrated his conscience and therefore had the power to control his actions.įurthermore, elements of the sublime can also be found in Mary Shelleys ‘ characters as well. This is why everything Victor does after the sublime episode of the storm is directed toward his achievements. It’s from this terrifying event that Victor develops an obsession to create life from death. The storm he had witnessed was so terrible in its nature that it manifested in the mind of Victor as the sublime element of terror. “I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed”, he said, “The catastrophe of this treeĮxcited my extreme astonishment.” (Shelley 22). Victor’s mind became submerged with the sublime and paralyzed from all reasoning. TERROR was what Victor had experienced when he “witnessed a most violent and terrible thunder-storm…the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens” (Shelley 22). Victor witnessed a violent thunder-storm which suspended all of his being. When Victor was only fifteen he experienced for the first time astonishment, the passion caused by the sublime. Let me give you an example illustrating this connection. For instance, right at the beginning of the novel Shelly is able to link her story’s setting to the sublime nature present in gothic texts. The sublime is described by Burke as being an element that penetrates your mind and doesn’t let you think of anything else. It’s through sublime elements like terror and power, that Marry Shelly exposes her novel to be part of the gothic world. A novel that makes us rediscover the true concepts of pain, fear, and terror.
One of the greatest literary examples of the use of sublimity in nature is Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein. The passion caused by the effect of the sublime in its highest degree in one’s conscience is described by Burke as being astonishment. TERROR, OBSCURITY, POWER, PRIVATION, VASTNESS, INFINITY, DIFFICULTYīurke’s seven elements of the sublime are similar to the seven wonders of the world, because they produce the strongest emotions our minds can possibly feel. A text that is now famous and widely used, today, to analyze and understand not only our lives, but gothic literature. In the 16th century, Edmund Burke was the first one who answered those questions in his text A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. Have you ever wondered why we remember pain more than happiness?
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