Romanticism Values Synthesis

Romanticism is widely used even today. Nature over man-made plays a huge part in the romanticism genre. This is shown in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray. The surroundings of the poem really show the importance of nature and it's beauty. "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight/ And all the air a solemn stillness holds,/ Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,/ And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." This quote is talking about the landscape. Another piece of literature that shows nature over man-made is The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth. In this poem it is saying that we have many distractions in the human world and we should be more focused on nature. "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:/ Little we see in Nature that is ours." This quote is explaining that we spend way to much time on worrying about getting and spending. We want to get more [money] so that we can spend it. Finally, Lines Composed a Few Miles About Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth is also focused on nature. This poem was written after he had taken a five mile walk with his sister. "These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs/ With a soft inland murmur." This quote is explaining how magnificent the water and how necessary it is to human life and existence.

Blake/Wordsworth/Coleridge/Romanticism

1. No, I don't agree with that view because you need to look at reasons when making a big decision. Emotions change very frequently.
2. It represents the innocence and experience.
3. Yes I do agree with that, because our culture and society is very materialistic.
4. I haven't had any that I can remember recently.

Blake and Burns

1. He uses the language.
2. The idea in Auld Lang Syne is the tenderness of friendship, the joy of celebration, and the value in memories. In John Anderson, My Jo, it celebrates lifelong friendship, honoring a couple who have shared the joys and hard work of youth and now share their later years. It is celebrating emotion over reason.
3. The hill stands for life.
4. He had visions that influenced his poetry.
5. They each make use of a regular rhyme scheme and frequent repetition. The animals represent innocence and experience. Because the world is both beautiful and ugly and it's important to understand both sides. They represent the Garden of Eden.
6. They are about nature and things that represent human qualities both good and bad. They reject order and reason. It's all about nature and life.

Romanticism Questions

1. It began in 1785 and ended in 1832. It was a dramatic change with rebellion. Emotion over reason, nature over human artifice, ordinary people over aristocrats, and spontaneity and wildness over decorum and control.
2. King George III was king of England from 1760-1820. The French Revolution began. France declared war on England in 1793.
3. They followed the Neoclassical model of imitating traditional literary forms. They showed romanticism in their emotional explorations and in their perceptions of nature as wild and untamed. Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, and William Blake.
4. The publication of Lyrical Ballads. He explained the revolutionary theory of poetry within the book. He explains that poetry should be about common people and events. Wordsworth and Coleridge were the second generation of romantic era poets. The celebrated emotion over reason and nature over science.
5. Long storeis containing elements of suspense, mystery, magic, and the macabre, with exotic settings such as haunted castles and untamed wildernesses. The Castle of Otranto, the Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein.
6. Novel of manners.

Pride and Prejudice

1. Elizabeth has the pride because she acted stuck up. Mr. Darcy has the prejudice because he looks down on people.
2. Women cannot own land. High expectations to be sophisticated.
3. Darcy is in higher class than Elizabeth. They didn't have much say if in middle class.
4. Do everything; be sophisticated. She declines the offer of marriage.
5. That arranged marriages are not good because they don't know each other and that marriages should be based on choice. Yes.

Candide

1. Candide gets thrown out of the castle and onto the streets, he becomes a beggar. He was made a soldier after being found by the Bulgarians. The King spared his life so he didn't get beheaded.

2. It is showing that everything happens for a reason and it has a purpose.

3. In candide war and government show that it is all the same. Religion was shown when the religious guy didn't help Candide the beggar but a non religious guy did help him.

4. The irony is that the king becomes a beggar when he had threw Candide out on the street.

5. I believe that everything does happen for a reason but somethings are great that happen.

Gulliver's Travels

In the world of the Huanhuhums Swift is saying that humans aren't perfect. The horses were capturing yahoos instead of the people capturing the horses. It is blatant. It showed a lot of irony; you could visualize it better. It made me think because it went back and forth between the worlds and brought out some good points to think about.

Modest Proposel ?'s

1. The tone is full of facts. He is straight to the point.
2. He has 3 or 4 main points; he talks about the problems first and then solution and benefit at the end. It's way to populated, the mother's don't support the children. The children into food.
3. If you sell the children because more people will want to get married and it will reduce domestic violence.
4. A false or mistaken idea is a fallacy. When he talked about the mother carrying eight kids and how it's saying that all of the country is like that. It is naturalistic fallacy.
5. My gut reaction to this is that it makes me sick to think about. My reaction changed a little because it's not meant to be taken literally.
6. No it's not meant to be taken literally. He is saying that one thing leads to another and that all of England is like this. That there is a problem in Ireland.
7. Yes, PETA does that.
8. Most decisions should be based on logic but some might be gut reaction.

Enlightenment/Restoration ?'s

1. It ended the Protestant Inter-regnum. The monarchy was restored.
2. The country was moved toward a form of government called constitutional monarchy.
3. It is called this because of the emphasis on power of intellect over feeling. Immanuel Kant, John Locke, and Adam Smith were some of the people that contributed.
4. Neoclassicism made use of classical forms and allusions and promoted ideals of harmony, tradition, and reason. It emphasizes on social interactions. It is also called the Augustan Age.
5. The Age of Dryden, the Age of Pope, and the Age of Johnson.
The Age of Dryden: Characteristics-Drama made a comeback in this era. Authors-John Dryden Literary genres-tragedies, modern prose, novels
The Age of Pope: Characteristics-also called the Augustan Age. Authors-Alexander Pope, Johnathan Swift, Joseph Addison, and Sir Richard Steele, Daniel Defoe. Literary genres-satires, poems.
The Age of Johnson: Characteristics-Writers began to move away from Neoclassicism. Authors-Samuel Johnson, James Boswell. Literary Genres-poetry, literary criticism, and prose fiction, biography.

Puritian Cavieler Comparison Contrast

1. Puritans believe in everything that is holy and pleasing to God and the Cavilers do things their own way.
2. The Cavilers way might not be pleasing to God and the Puritans way is.
3. The Cavilers talked about things in their eyes and how they see life.
4. I think I am both at some point in times because sometimes I can be uptight and other times I am relaxed and like to do things my own way.

Pastoral Blog/Rural Living

I don't mind living in a rural area but sometimes it gets pretty boring. The benefits are that it's pretty safe here and that you know many people. People are friendly here. The drawbacks are that there isn't much to do and people know everything about you. Rumors are easily spread in a rural area. I don't plan to live in a rural area later on in life because I think that there is so much out there to do and to visit. I want to see what is outside of O'Neill, Nebraska.

Hamlet/Macbeth Comparison Contrast

1. Power

Hamlet-Claudius is power hungry so he kills King Hamlet. Claudius becomes king. Claudius doesn't confess until the play that Hamlet puts on. When the killing scene comes up Claudius wants the lights turned on and he walks out. Claudius eventually feels guilty for the crime that he committed and ends up getting killed.

Macbeth-Macbeth wants power so much that he is willing to kill his cousin to become King. Macbeth feels guilty right away. Macbeth thinks being king is to much work. Power is a very powerful thing and it gets to be to much. Macbeth gets killed and Malcom comes to reign.

2. Ophelia/Lady Macbeth

Hamlet-In Hamlet Ophelia is a motherly figure. She is always singing however she goes crazy due to her father's death. She is picking flowers done by a river and falls into the water and drowns, all the while she is singing.

Macbeth-In Macbeth Lady Macbeth is a motherly figure. She sings and has also gone crazy due to deaths. She ends up committing suicide by jumping off the castle.

3. Psychiatric Problems

Hamlet-Their family had a tendency to be crazy and dramatic. Examples include Hamlet, Ophelia. Hamlet was dramatic because he started to believe he was seeing his father's ghost. Ophelia was crazy because there was speculations on whether is killed herself or just drowned.

Macbeth-Lady Macbeth went crazy after the events of Duncan's murder because she had nightmares and she sleepwalked. She thought that she has blood all over her hands.

Macbeth Predisscusion Questions

Crossfire


Circle either agree or disagree for each statement. There are no right or wrong answers, and you will not be graded on which one you choose.

Agree/Disagree 1. Our fate is predetermined.

Agree/Disagree 2. It is natural for humans to strive for power.

Agree/Disagree 3. When in power, humans will do anything to maintain it.

Agree/Disagree 4. An accomplice is just as guilty as the person who commits a crime.

Agree/Disagree 5. If you kill, you should be killed in return (“an eye for an eye”).


2. I think that it is natural for humans to strive for power. Humans want to be the best and have control over everything that they can. However, some people care less about have a certain degree of power.
5. I don't think that a person should be killed if they have killed someone. I don't think that's right. I do think that they should be put in jail for the rest of their life though.

Hamlet Act 3 Journal

1. I agree to not overreacting in the play. The queen player is my favorite because she is honest.
2. Yea he is a little bit rude toward his mother and Ophelia. Hamlet can be rude and sometimes pretty dramatic so I don't care for him as a character. It makes him a good character for this story.
3. He feels guilty because he feels bad about it. I think that he could be redeemed.
4. In a lot of the movies there are characters that a self-fish and think to highly of themselves and something happens and they become more humble. I don't know if Hamlet will overcome his flaws or not.
5. I don't think it was in the room; Hamlet might have imagined it.

Hamlet Act 2 Journal

1. I think that Polonius likes to make plans and to secretive.
2. Hamlet thinks that the world is like a prison, and it's unfair. I am an optimist because I try to look for the good in the world.
3. Yes, because he thinks he can get more info about Hamlet.
4. I think that Hamlet is just pretending to be crazy because when he is by himself he is more calm and relaxed and not showing off.
5. I think he likes it because acting isn't reality. He uses it because it's not to risky. Yes, because he should have just listened to him.
6. No I don't think they are wrong for spying on him because they are trying to help and they were sent by the King and Queen. He problem feels bad that they had to send people to spy on him.

Hamlet Act 1 Journal

1. Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us. Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night, That if again this apparition come He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
It's saying that Horatio doesn't believe in the ghost and that it is fake, but if they see it again then he might believe if it speaks.
2. I am a Horatio because I don't believe in ghosts.
3. Hamlet: What they say/think:Line 67 It shows that Hamlet doesn't like his step-dad.
What they do: Scene 4 line 9 It shows that Hamlet is going to talk to the ghost.
How they are described: Scene 5 line 139 It shows that he is caring about other peoples opinions.
How others view them: line 149 It shows respect towards them.
He is a good character.
4.I would be shocked and curious. I would need more evidence. I wouldn't tell the secret.

Hamlet Predisscusion ?'s

1. I don't think that revenge is the way to go in dealing with someone because they will probably try to take revenge on you after that.
2. I think that it is better to think before you act because you can regret acting before thinking if you say something you shouldn't have.
3. I think that we create our own realities because there are so many opinions everywhere you go that, those opinions become your own reality.
4. The qualities of a good friendship are trust, communication, honesty, and being there for that person through the good and the bad. I don't think that it's ok to spy on a person but it is ok to check on them and make sure they are safe.
5. I do think that parents should let children make their own mistakes but the parent can guide them to help them make good choices; because parents aren't always going to be there when the kid goes off to college.
6. Yes, I do think that the child should be supportive of the parent because if the parent is happy then that's good and the child should try to help the parent.
7. Yes, I think there is a time when it goes to far, because you have to move on at sometime. It is ok to grieve though.

Matrix Blog-#2

1. I think Cypher decided to go back because he didn't want to face reality. I think that his reasoning is kind of valid but you have to face it sometime, everything can't be perfect. I don't think ignorance is bliss because something will come up and you can't deny reality.
2. No, he doesn't accept his role right away. Beowulf was put in charge by others but Beowulf is confident about it.
3. If everyone was perfect and logical then no one would make mistakes and you wouldn't learn through those mistakes. In IRobot the robots turn evil against the people and in the end the robots try to take over the world to make it better.

The Matrix Blog-#1

1. It parallels the allegory of the cave because Neo switches "realities" just like the prisoner in the cave.
2. Real can be defined as a fact to you. You know what is real because that's what your mind is telling you, real can change because you can gain more knowledge and come to a different conclusion.
3. I think that technology is controlling our world today because everyone is using technology and believing what we see on the internet as well so we don't think for ourselves. Technology has in some ways lessened the quality of life by lessening skills that people once possessed. Writing skills have probably decreased because everyone relies on keyboards.

"The Cave"

The Cave is an allegory about the reality of the truth is based on what you see. Socrates is trying to get across that the reality may be different than the truth based on what you experience and gain knowledge from. The opportunity to learn things then you have many possibilities to explore and create knowledge that is your own. If you go along with what everyone else is saying then you may not have as many opportunities as people that make learning their own. With the technology today, we as students, don't really have to think for ourselves because if we need help with something we can look on Wikipedia or on Google.