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    Night Thoreau

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    Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Questions 1. The play was written a while back so now in modern time the perspective is different than it would of been when it was first written. 2. He encouraged others to be their own individual persons. 3. She is trying to say that her son never does what other people do and is always on the opposite side of the crowd. You can say he is trying to be a rebel. Henry has always being the opposite of society for example he was the only baby that didn’t cry while

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    Romanticism

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    Short Paper 2: Romanticism First coined in 1798 by Schlegel‚ Romanticism described an overt reaction against the Enlightenment and classical culture of the eighteenth century. Europe’s Classical past and the values it had attained were disintegrating. The paintings in this era showed the emotional attachment to victims of society. A lot of the work also always pitted the human against nature. The Romantics were devoted to seeing the beauty in nature through their own experiences. During this

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    The Self At Walden Pond

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    The Self at Walden Pond Whether the contemporary UU focuses on reforming the self or society seems to me a concern about how an individual’s way of living impacts others.. The idea of individualized transcendence seems to be analogous with the perceptive of Emerson’s contemporaries who believed that the reform of the self was a form of a conferred spiritual democracy. Conferred because in theory‚ perhaps they could label it a spiritual democracy. Yet‚ looking at the historical events of the

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    Romanticism: Be Naturally Unique Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” The people from the Romanticism period in Europe during the nineteenth century would strongly agree with Emerson’s words. Romantics thought it was important to be different and unique. Romantics are: Sensitive‚ emotional‚ prefer color to form‚ the exotic to the familiar‚ [are] eager for…adventure…of fantasy‚ [are] insistent

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    Romanticism

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    Romanticism Romanticism was created by artists who had introduced this art movement in 1750 and 1850‚ which originated from Western Europe indicating the feelings towards the aristocratic‚ social and political to remove the strict rules of classicism. This specific art movement was based from the individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature of a person’s understanding. Since they were in revolt against the orders‚ they favoured the revival of potentially unlimited

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    Romanticism

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    to the rejection of reason and logic. By design‚ fictitious scenes that please‚ but are far from the truth‚ are the foundation of Romanticism. It prefers to see the world as dynamic and imaginative. Irving‚ Cooper‚ and Bryant exemplified Romanticism in “Rip Van Winkle‚” “The Slaughter of The Pigeons‚” and “Thanatopsis‚”respectively. The first example of Romanticism is Washington Irving’s inventive writing “Rip Van Winkle‚" which promotes imagination over reason and logic by creating a character

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    In complete sentence format‚ you will respond to the following questions. Get started by copying and pasting the questions into a word processing document. 1. After reviewing the Romanticism resource page‚ list three characteristics of Romanticism. Also‚ identify three authors of the Romantic period. Characteristics 1. Profound love of nature 2. Idealism 3. Passionate nationalism Authors 1. William Cullen Bryant 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 3

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    1. After reviewing the Romanticism resource page‚ list three characteristics of Romanticism. Also‚ identify three authors of the Romantic period. Profound love of nature‚ focus on the self and the individual‚ and fascination with the supernatural. Three authors of this period are William Cullen Bryant‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ and Washington Irving. 2. Using the Transcendentalism resource page‚ list three characteristics of Transcendentalism. • Reverence for nature • Celebrated individualism • Intuition

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    American Romanticism

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    The Literary movement and story I decided to choose was American Romanticism‚ and “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. American Romanticism is a literary period in American Literature that lasted from 1800s to 1850s. The movement itself started off as an offshoot of the European Romanticism artistic movement‚ “It arose as a reaction to the formal orthodoxy and Neoclassicism of the preceding period. It is marked by a freedom from the authority‚ forms‚ and conventions typical in Neoclassical

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    Romanticism Greatly Impact Transcendentalism. Romanticism is a literary‚ artistic‚ and philosophical movement that began in Europe it shaped all the arts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In a general sense‚ romanticism refers to several distinct groups of artists‚ poets‚ writers‚ and musicians as well as political‚ philosophical and social thinkers and trends of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe. Romanticism generally stressed the essential goodness of human

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