Rationalism/romanticism jp test

lust

What colonel Killigrew represents

hypocrisy

what mr gascoigne represents

greed

what mr medbourne represents

vanity

what widow wycherly represents

rationalism

reaction to puritans, truth through reason and logic (Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine)

puritans

found truth in God, therefore the Bible

ethos

appeal to ethical/experience

pathos

emotional appeal

logos

logical appeal

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience”

ethos appeal in Patrick Henry “Speech at the Virginia Convention”

“give me liberty, or give me death!”

pathos appeal in Patrick Henry “Speech at the Virginia Convention”

“I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past”

logos appeal in Patrick Henry “Speech at the Virginia Convention”

Lenore grief, insanity

extreme situation in “The Raven”

plague, red death

extreme situation in “The mask of Red Death”

“mutual fear is the principal link in the chain of mutual love”

metaphor in T. Paine Crisis No.1

romanticism

in reaction to rationalists… those who find truth in intuition/feelings. Focused on the individual and themselves

transcendentalism

branch of romanticism, means innate goodness through divine soul. Society corrupts and makes people evil

dark romantics

branch of romanticism, innate wickedness, pasteboard mask of social respectability 

individualism, self-reliance, innate goodness, nature, free will, belief in spirituality, anti-establishment, anti-materialistic

ralph waldo Emerson’s eight tenants

individualism, nature, simple life

Henry david thoreau’s three tenants

“I become a transparent eyeball”

What Ralph Waldo Emerson says in “Nature”- describes the fact that in nature he sees the world the way that God does and how all grief and ego vanish in the presence of nature.

if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years

In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature”, he says “if…” which describes the fact that people take nature for granted, and since we see nature everyday people stop noticing

“Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist”

In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”, this quote displays the tenet of self-reliance

“To be great is to be misunderstood”

In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-reliance”, quote that displays the tenet of individualism

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

In Henry David Thoreau’s “Simple life”, what he says that describes the way he chooses to live, and the way he thinks others should live as well

rainstorms

Henry David Thoreau’s favorite weather because it confined him to his house and his thoughts

“only that day dawns to which we are awake”

Henry David Thoreau quote that describes that we only experience the potential of each day if we’re attentive