Romantic time period Illuminated Texts

This presentation explores the theme of monstrosity within Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.  Is it simply beauty which makes us good? Victor Frankenstein attempted to create beauty and instead created a visage of terror.  Using a modern piece of music, this Illuminated Text is thrilling. It's red motif and stark lettering shows the "horrid" contrast between appearance and reality.

This is perhaps the most beautiful Illuminated Text I have seen from one of my students.  Their exploration of the theme of "The Loss of Innocence" in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein will take your breath away.  When we showed this in class, the other students were stunned and knew their grades would hurt because of it!  Using haunting music and Romantic images to illustrate Mary Shelley's words they have created a piece that few can equal! 

The student who created this Illuminated Text on Manipulation in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein impressed me with his choice of music and his timing with it.  I also really enjoyed his use of animation, it surprised me that he pulled the essential words from a longer quote, rearranged them and made them a smaller quote. It made me see the words in a new way.  Which, after all, is the point of the assignment! 

This is an illuminated text about Carpe Diem (Seize the Day). A lot of people waste their time, it is very important to seize the day. Life is only so long, we should spend every moment to its best and take hold of every opportunity. I felt that this is a good way to end the school year for British Literature. There were many activities and things that we did this year that gave me inspiration and motivation to take every moment in life that belongs to me. Every smile and every experience is a new page in my adventure book. No one knows what will happen tomorrow, but we can enjoy today.

The Tyger contemplates how the creation of the animal came to be but specifically how its divine creator reacted at seeing his creation. In my illuminated text I wanted to emphasize the presence of the tyger throughout the whole presentation so I choose an orange shade as the background while keeping the text black to represent the stripes. At one point in the illuminated text there’s a pair of hands to demonstrate the creator’s presence as William Blake questions how the tyger could be completed.

We illuminated an excerpt for the History of Love. We explored the relationship between Leo and the younger Alma at the end of his life. In our text Leo exploring what is real and what he is imagining. He is coming to term with the fact that most of the things he he sees are imaginary. Our text all discusses how Alma adores Leo and for her he would do anything.