Toll1 tōl/ noun noun: toll; plural noun: tolls 1. a charge payable for permission to use a particular bridge or road. "turnpike tolls" synonyms: charge, fee, payment, levy, tariff, tax "a highway toll" NORTH AMERICAN a charge for a long-distance telephone call. 2. the number of deaths, casualties, or injuries arising from particular circumstances, such as a natural disaster, conflict, or accident. "the toll of dead and injured mounted" synonyms: number, count, tally, total, sum total, grand total, sum; More record, list "the toll of dead and injured" the cost or damage resulting from something. "the environmental toll of the policy has been high" synonyms: adverse effect(s), detriment, harm, damage, injury, impact, hurt; More cost, price, loss, disadvantage, suffering, penalty "the toll on the environment has been high"
Guilt, death, and sin are common themes of anti-Transcendentalism, which can be seen in Poe's writting.
Explanation:
Anti-transcendentalism is a response to Romanticism movement, it explores in the themes the flaws and darkness of the humanity, sometimes Anti-transcendentalism is called Dark Romanticism. Often will appear in the motifs of Anti-transcendentalism human guilt, sin, death and the evil as part of human nature.
Frankenstein contains elements of both gothic and romantic literature. Mary Shelley brings out the romantic’s love of nature in the story. Both Frankenstein and the creature explicitly credit nature with giving them joy and lessening their sorrow several times. Victor commits a great sin by trying to go against nature’s laws. Walton is shown to be at fault for his desire to explore the arctic. Mourning the loss of nature to industrialization in the mid-eighteenth century was a romantic trait.
Romantic themes of education and human potential can be found in the scenes with the De Lacey family.
The reanimation of a dead body and descriptions of graveyards and corpses are all gothic conventions designed to create horror or terror in the reader. Other gothic conventions used in Frankenstein are murder, suicide, madness, and the suppression of women.
It can divide us because not many know too many languages, also things can mean hurtful things in other languages for example if I say something it may not be a good definition in another language
