two musicals have stood out from there comic counterparts. Les Misérables and West Side Story tell more serious stories and have captivated audiences with revivals and film versions. Both are based on classic literature‚ and share universal and relatable social problems. West Side Story created by Lenard Bernstein‚ Steven Sondheim‚ Arthur Laurents‚ and Jerome Robbins tell the story of Romeo and Juliet in 1950s New York. Les Misérables by Composer Claude-Michael Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil
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Victor Hugo‚ the author of‚ “Les Misérables‚” once said‚ “Change your opinions‚ keep your principles; change your leaves‚ keep intact your roots.” This is a quote that can be reassuring to a person who is going through a rough patch in life or when they are at a stance in their life where they have forgotten who they are. When I read this quote‚ I think about where I come from and how it has shaped me to be the person I am today. One way that my roots have affected me is by my speech communities
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TIMELINE: ROMANTICISM 1800-1850 1749(-1832): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born (writer). 1762: “Man was born free‚ and he is everywhere in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1770(-1840): Neo-Classicism 1770(-1850): William Wordsworth (writer) was born. 1770: Industrial Revolution had an influence on the Romantic period. 1785: Grim Brothers. 1789: French Revolution. 1800 Start of Romanticism 1802(-1885): Victor Hugo (writer) was born. 1802(-1870): Alexandre Duman
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me as you please; but help me first to carry him home. I only ask that of you." Upon examination of Les Miserables‚ it is clearly evident that the elements of Forgiveness‚ Self Sacrifice‚ and Courage are only a few of the main themes Hugo wanted to develop. <br> <br>First off‚ is the element of forgiveness. In a book of mistrust‚ poverty‚ and hate forgiveness thrives in the world of Les Miserables. The first example of this was at the very beginning‚ when Jean Valjean stayed with the bishop. Valjean
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Eden Gately English H 10 Romanticism Poetry Due to the outbreak of rationalism from the Scientific Revolution‚ people began focusing on optimism and humanism to make the world a better place in which they called the Enlightenment. Following this‚ The Romantic Movement is said to have began in the 1770’s and is known as an international artistic and philosophical movement that focused on the thought of oneself and the world. Its span also included the American Revolution (1776) and the
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Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial‚ it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts
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RESEARCH HUMANITIES FINAL PAPER -1789-1887 Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Romanticism‚ first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800 The early Romantic period thus coincides with
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commonly known as romanticism. Romanticism can be commonly be defined primordially as a movement that flourished in Europe and America between the time periods of 1750 and 1870. Romanticism cannot be directly pinpointed back to its origin since it created out of the earliest form of human expression and innovation‚ its beginnings‚ artistic expression and time frame inspired by nature an awareness of the past‚ a religious spirit and an artistic ideal’’ quoted by ‘’(baron’s6). Romanticism is estimated to
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Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Imagination The imagination was elevated to a position as the supreme faculty of the mind. This contrasted distinctly with the
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Makayla Joseph Ms. Oville English III Honors- 1st Hour December 7‚ 2012 Essays: Option 1 Romanticism Write an essay that classifies Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa and William Woodsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” as romantic by identifying and explaining how specific examples from both works reflect three different characteristics of the Romantic period. In class we talked about Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa in reference to the
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