Prompt 4: Analyze artistic and literary responses to industrialization over the course of the nineteenth century. The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th century and throughout the 19th century had a dramatic impact and influence on European life. While many aspects of life and society changed in response to these new developments, art and literature were heavily impacted as well. Three major forms of artistic responses to industrialization were Romanticism, Realism, and several new revolutionary styles of and made in reaction to the invention of the camera. All of these various styles responded to the industrialization of Europe in their own unique fashions, and resulted in a strange conglomeration of art, ideals, and themes.
Romanticism DBQ Romanticism was a late 18th century movement that was a reaction against what was considered the ‘excessive rationality and scientific narrowness’ of the Enlightenment era. Romantics sought to conserve the idea and customs held in the Middle Ages. They viewed the middle ages as a representation of the social stability and religious reverence that was lacking from their own era. Romantics held the mystery of nature, the glorification of history, and the emotion of religion, in high regard. These views were formed in retaliation the the Enlightenment Era and defined the characteristics of Romanticism.
His investigation was based on the pamphlet literature of the Revolution, which had as its sources the heritage of classical antiquity, Enlightenment rationalism, English common law, New England Puritanism, but most importantly the "radical social and political thought of the English Civil War and of the Commonwealth period. "26 Algernon Sidney, James Harrington, and Henry Neville were the seventeenth-century heroes of liberty that the colonist identified themselves with. John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon were the intellectual middlemen for the revolutionaries. From the Commonwealth political thought, the revolutionaries argued that the King's ministers were engaged in a conspiracy to restrict the liberty of the colonies. In their drive for power the ministers upset the balance of the British constitution.
Compare and Contrast American and French Post-Revolutionary Governments Inspired by the Enlightenment ideas of the 17th century concerning the nature of man, France and the British colonies of North America both strove to achieve a democratic form of government by carrying out revolutions. They took up arms against the established system in hopes of creating this new style of administration that the previous century had championed. Both North America and France were ruled by absolute monarchies at the time, and the concepts of natural equality, self-government by the people, and inalienable rights that the philosophes of the Enlightenment had proposed were extremely appealing to the harshly taxed lower class. But only one country, however, was able to successfully complete its revolution and implement their sought after democratic rule. The North American colonies were able to achieve their goal of forming a democracy while the French were not due to the differences in their pre-revolutionary political systems and the nature of the respective revolutions themselves.
1.) Why does Paine begin his argument for independence with an attack on monarchy and hereditary succession? Thomas Paine attacked monarchy and hereditary succession in the beginning of his argument because he wanted to gain more support on the revolt against Britain. His approach was straightforward and got right to the point for the independence movement and the rights of all men. He wanted to show that supporting the independence movement instead of remaining loyal to the British Crown was a better idea and would result in happier lives.
Between 1547 and 1558 England was almost torn apart by religious revolution. Assess the validity of this claim. (45 marks) A religious revolution is the complete change and reform of religious organisation. This is something that arguably occurred in England between 1547 and 1558, during which time there were two monarchs – Edward VI and Mary I, with opposing religious beliefs. During Tudor England, religious identity was extremely important, and therefore religious ‘revolution’ was obviously going to affect the people and the country significantly.
In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Frankenstein and Blade Runner? The values and morals of society have dramatically changed throughout the course of history, so too has the knowledge of science, its teachings and influences on the world. As new technologies have been under further experimentation into the production of man-made life forms, the debate between science and religion has continued. It is these issues within an author’s context that influences them and the texts they create. Mary Shelley’s gothic promethean novel, Frankenstein (1818), was released during the industrial revolution as romanticism was thriving, while Ridley Scott’s futuristic sci-fi Blade runner (1992) grew with the dawning of a capitalistic increasingly globalised and technologically driven society.
Further, the American Revolution was a radical movement that changed the world in a way that shook it to its foundations by challenging the concept of aristocracy in the Western World that had existed for two thousand years and completely changed the political and social landscape in the United States and the world forever. Wood certainly supported the case that the Revolution changed how Americans felt that their social interactions ought to be carried out. Wood provided a great deal of research to indicate how the bonds of society would be reforged in the aftermath of the Revolution. The American Revolution changed the nature of American society in a very deep way. Old monarchical social bonds had not simply been destroyed; they had been replaced with new Republican bonds of “love and gratitude.” Before the Revolution, George Washington called the nation’s yeoman farmers “the grazing multitude,” expressing his
Behnam Nemati Professor Nappo English 101 13 March 2012 The age of revolutions In 18th century, enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu, began to revolutionize the way of thinking in European world. The enlightenment was a movement in 18th century that questioned authority, religion and social hierarchy; enlightenment advocated reason, liberty and equality, and controlling one’s own destiny. The American and French revolutions were motivated by Enlightenment ideas; however, they were remarkably different in terms of subjective causes, types of leaders, progression, and outcomes. Seven year’s war was undoubtedly the matrix of the French and American Revolution; a war that was started by George Washington, killing French military officer, in New France territory. It soon became a global war, and after seven years, the British defeated the French.
Professor Staples 9/21/11 Essay 1 The “French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen” was approved by the National assembly of France in August 1789. Through this document one can clearly see the significance of the immense social and intellectual forces, which influenced the French Revolution because they destroyed the old older and brought a set of new ideas upon the world that, were dangerously powerful. These dynamic forces were crafted through the works of the enlightenment and the new ways of thinking which profoundly changed the nature of politics itself. The enlightenment caused the old rigid political and social system to face the wrath of new political ideas and economic realities which in turn caused the French Revolution by giving birth to a new world view. The enlightenment unleashed upon the people a set of complex ideas of rationalism, secularism, a Newtonian world view and many other leading European intellectuals idea’s which can all be portrayed right in the document itself.