Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues Through the Ages
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This document lists various genres of speculative fiction and their key characteristics. It begins by pairing the seven deadly sins with their opposing virtues. It then discusses the origins and development of speculative fiction genres like chivalric romance, gothic fiction, science fiction, and fantasy from the medieval period through the Victorian era. The final section categorizes different subgenres of speculative fiction based on their themes, tones, and settings.
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Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues Through the Ages
- 1. Lust Chastity Gluttony Temperance Greed Charity Sloth Diligence Wrath Patience Envy Kindness Pride Humility • Paganism • Feudalism • Knighthood: Truth & Honour Chivalry & Courtesy Love & Self-actualisation
- 5. • Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Order of the Rose-Croix) • Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Rossetti Brothers) • Percy Bysshe Shelley. St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, A Romance. 1810 (Romantic) • Lord Byron hosted a ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori in 1816 • Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. 1818. (Romantic) • Robert Louis Stevenson. Strange Case of • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 1886; Bram Stocker. Dracula. 1897. (Victorian)
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- 8. • Allegorical – Science-fiction • Fantasy fiction – childlike, superhero fiction • Apocalyptic – dark humour, sarcasm, post-war/ calamity setting and environment, cyberpunk • Reality Fiction – historical intrigues • Motivational/ Inspirational – philosophical (pseudo-religious) • Multicultural - globalisation