ENGlish literature 2

Feudalism

A hierachical society

Speaking instead of writing

Oral tradition

Church got power

Christianity

The middle ages

Poetry and romance

From old to middle english

Language change

from church to the streets

The golden age of drama

the antic era

Backward looking

new thinking

renaissance

Shakespeare

hamlet, othello

individualism

i was born a slave → can become something new

Jonathan Swift

Irony and kill the irish children

Criticising society and church

The church take too much space

Human over nature

experiments and cutting up bodies

Revolution

French and American …

Empirical learning

stub my toe → it hurts → don’t do it again

optimism

looking frowrd

Marriage for ;)

… not for contract

Romantic era

Industrialismen

romantic era

backward looking

Mary Shelley

goth and nature out there

Realism

People are poor

Mark Twain and charles dickens

different between american and english writers

expansion and colonialism

victorian era