LESSON 4: EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND HARRY POTTER (copy)

MEDIEVAL PERIOD

In this period, masterful works like Beowulf and Canterbury Tales were created.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

He wrote Romeo and Juliet. He took the level of its literary standard into a whole new high.

AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Focuses on celebration of ideas what the human mind was capable and could be achieved. Political in nature.

ROUSSEAU

He advocates social reform of all kinds.

VOLTAIRE

He employed dry wit and sarcasm to entertain his readers.

ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

Romanticism is concerned with the masses. Individual Consciousness and Imagination.

MARY SHELLEY

She is the author of “Frankenstein”. The literature focuses from scientific to mysterious.

VICTORIAN PERIOD

This period’s name borrowed from the royal of England, Queen Victoria. Writers pushing arts and letters in new interesting directions. Writers wrote with simplicity, truth, and tempered emotion.This era is marked by significant social, political, and technological changes, influencing literature and thought.

REALISM

This period possesses attention to detail and replicate the true nature of reality. Novel functioning realist mode.

NATURALISM

This period is more explanatory of a person’s actions or beliefs. Narrative structure and personalities of characters.It emphasizes the influence of environment and heredity on human behavior, often portraying a deterministic view of life.

EXISTENTIALISM

This period focuses on crime and punishment.

MODERNIST PERIOD

This period demonstrated new way of living and seeing the world. Fullest advantage more possibilities imagined.

JOANNE ROWLING

Known by her pen name J.K. Rowling, a British author who wrote the seven-volume children’s fantasy series, Harry Potter.

1997 TO 2007

The fantasy series, Harry Potter, was published from ______ to ________.

500, 70

Harry Potter has sold over _____ million copies, been translated into at least ___ languages, and spawned a global media franchising including films and video games.

HARRY POTTER

He is the protagonist of the fantasy series, who is gradually transformed from timid weakling to powerful hero by the end.

HERMIONE GRANGER

She comes from a purely Muggle family, and her characters illustrated the social-adjustment problems often faced by new students at Hogwarts.

RON WEASLEY

A shy, modest boy who comes from an impoverished wizard family. He is Harry’s first friend at Hogwarts, and they become close.

VOLDEMORT

A great wizard gone bad. When he killed Harry’s parents, he gave Harry a lightning-shaped scar. He has thus shaped Harry’s life so that Harry’s ultimate destruction of him appears as a kind of vengeance.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

A 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel of the same name. Produced by David Heyman and written by Steve Kloves, it is the first installment of the Harry Potter film series.

ENGLAND 1990S

The setting of the first movie of the Harry Potter series.