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PART I:  BACKGROUND NOTES:  EARLY LUDDITE HISTORY

• IT ALL STARTED IN ENGLAND IN THE LATE 1700'S EARLY 1800'S
• KING GEORGE III WAS STILL RUNNING THE COUNTRY BUT HIS SON, GEORGE IV WAS SOON TO BE KING
• KING GEORGE III WAS KING DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 
• KING GEORGE III SUFFERED FROM A DISEASE THAT MADE HIM TEMPORARILY INSANE AND HIS SON, KING GEORGE IV TOOK OVER AS REGENT
• IN 1811, THERE WAS A MAJOR UPHEAVAL 
• THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WAS BEGINNING TO HAPPEN IN ENGLAND 
• MACHINES WERE REPLACING SKILLED LABORERS AND THOSE SKILLED LABORERS DID NOT LIKE THE IDEA 
• A GROUP OF MEN WERE DETERMINED TO STOP THE MACHINES
• THE MACHINES THAT WERE BEING USED WERE POWER LOOMS ALSO CALLED FRAMES 
• POWER LOOMS WERE ABLE TO CREATE FABRIC QUICKER THAN BY HAND
• THIS WAS PUTTING MANY MEN OUT OF WORK
• ATTACKS ON THE OWNER'S HOMES AND FAMILIES WERE HAPPENING REGULARLY WITH FIRES BEING SET AND FACTORIES BEING DEMOLISHED BY NIGHT RAIDERS LEAD BY NED LUDD
• GEORGE IV OFFERED £50   (50 BRITISH POUNDS)  TO HELP FIND THE CULPRITS
• THE FOLLOWERS OF NED LUDD WERE CALLED "LUDDITES"
• THEY HAD MANY SUPPORTERS
• THE MOST FAMOUS AT THE TIME WAS LORD BYRON, THE POET
• HE WROTE A POEM DEFENDING THE ACTIONS OF THE "LUDDITES"
   
  
• ASSIGNMENT #1:  LOCATE HIS POEM ON THE WEB USING THE LINKS PAGE
• COPY AND PASTE THE POEM INTO WORD-TYPE ONE  PARAGRAPH PER STANZA REGARDING WHAT BYRON MEANT BY EACH OF THE THREE STANZAS.  BE SURE TO USE PROPER GRAMMAR AND SPELLING.  YOU WILL BE GRADED ON THOSE AS WELL AS CONTENT.  BE SURE YOU DO YOUR OWN WORK!  KEEP IN MIND, THAT NED LUDD DESTROYED MACHINES THAT MADE FABRIC.  DID LORD BYRON USE ANY WORDS IN HIS POEM THAT RELATE TO THE WEAVING OR MAKING OF FABRIC.  COLOR THOSE WORDS INA A DIFFERENT FONT COLOR.
  
• BY LATE 1812, THE GOVERNMENT CREATED THE FRAME BREAKING LAW AND IT BECAME ILLEGAL TO DESTROY ANY MACHINERY
• THE ATTACKS CONTINUED AND MILL WORKERS AND OWNERS LOST THEIR LIVES
  
• BY THE LATE 1817'S MOST OF THE LUDDITES WERE KILLED IN ACTION, SENT TO PRISON CAMPS IN AUSTRALIA OR EXECUTED AND THE MOVEMENT LOST MOMENTUM
• EVEN THOUGH THE LUDDITES "LOST", THEY STILL BELIEVED THAT THE IDEAS OF TECHNOLOGY REPLACING WORKERS AND SKILLED TRADESMEN WAS HARMFUL TO THE ECONOMY AND TO WAGE EARNERS.  

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

• ANOTHER SYMPATHIZER AT THE TIME WAS AUTHOR, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT WAS BORN 1797-1851 (DIED OF A BRAIN TUMOR)
• SHE MARRIED THEPOET AND AUTHOR PERCY SHELLEY AFTER HAVING TWO OF HIS CHILDREN
• SHE LOOKED AT "LUDDISM" FROM A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW.  
• THE "LUDDITES" WERE AGAINST TECHNOLOGY AND THE IDEA THAT MACHINES WOULD TAKE OVER AND MEN WOULD NOT HAVE WORK.
• SHE APPROACHED THE IDEA REGARDING  LUDDISM FROM THE SCIENTIFIC OR MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW. 
• SHE WROTE THE BOOK TITLED FRANKENSTEIN ALSO CALLED THE MODERN PROMETHEUS IN 1818 ~ BY THE WAY, SHE HAD A SUMMER HOME NEXT TO LORD BYRON IN SWITZERLAND
• WHILE ON VACATION IN SWITZERLAND, A STORM CAME UP AND LORD BYRON SUGGESTED THEY WRITE SCARY, GHOST STORIES.  MARY SHELLEY USED HER DREAMS, THOUGHTS REGARDING MEDICINE AND ELECTRO SHOCK AND HER HUSBAND'S WIFE'S DEATH TO CONCOCT HER STORY
• HER IDEA FOR WRITING WAS TO IDENTIFY THE MYSTERIOUS FEARS OF NATURE AND SHE HAD ALSO READ MUCH OF CHARLES DARWIN'S THEORIES
• MARY SHELLEY'S HUSBAND, PERCY, LOST HIS FIRST WIFE.  SHE HAD DROWNED AND THE RESCUERS HAD USED ELECTRICAL SHOCK BUT SHE DIED
• MARY SHELLEY'S INFANT DAUGHTER DIED  AND SHE DREAMED OF REVIVING HER
• DOCTORS OF THE TIME HAD BEEN MESMERIZED BY THE BOUNDARY OF LIFE AND DEATH AND THE FINE LINE BETWEEN THEM.  THEY TRIED TO REVIVE THOSE DEAD THROUGH ELECTRICITY.
• WHO IS PROMETHEUS?????? 
  
• ASSIGNMENT #2 THE 1931 VERSION OF THE MOVIE FRANKENSTEIN -WE WILL WATCH IN CLASS-MAYBE IF WE HAVE TIME 
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•  DIRECTED BY JAMES WHALE, STARRING BORIS KARLOFF AS THE MONSTER
• BLACK AND WHITE FILM THAT IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE BEST HORROR MOVIES EVER MADE-IT GROSSED 12 MILLION DOLLARS DURING THE DEPRESSION.  THAT WAS AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE TIME
• LOOK OVER THESE QUESTIONS BEFORE VIEWING THE MOVIE.  YOU WILL THEN RESPOND USING WORD.  YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE NOTES AS WE VIEW THE VIDEO.
1. WHAT CURRENT MEDICAL EVENT RELATES TO THE STORY OF FRANKENSTEIN
2. WHY DO YOU THINK FRANKENSTEIN REMAINS AS ONE OF THE TOP FILMS OF ALL TIMES
3. WAS THE MONSTER INTELLIGENT.  LIST PARTS OF THE MOVIE THAT SUPPORT  YOUR REASONS.