Between the Early Modern Period and the Enlightenment

Question 1

Timeline

Answer 1

Start: 1660 - Restoration of the Monarchy → Charles II: Reign: 1660 – 1685
End: 1780 - shifts within English political discouse; sense of turmoil caused by the French Revolution
The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange (Reign: 1688 – 1702)
Bill of Rights 1689: Beginning of the constitutional monarchy
Development of political party system: Whigs (liberal) and Tories (conservative)
1707: Union of Scotland and Ireland: Great Britain
Sir Robert Walpole: first and longest serving Prime Minister

Question 2

Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan (1651)

Answer 2

• illustration of how catastrophic a time of Civil War is to the psyche; how it leaves a mark on the
  people living during the
  time
• solution: hand over power
  over to a sovereign

Question 3

Metaphysical Poetry - John Donne

Answer 3

• no single topic: variety of topics
• almost theatrical analysis of human nature
• love poetry; religious poetry
• conceits, wit

Question 4

Paradise Lost (1667) - John Milton

Answer 4

• Beginning of Book 3: God talks to his son and explains how he created mankind
• notion of freedom; notion of free will → freedom shapes the entire epic
  -poem is concerned with the fall of
  mankind → includes a narrative frame that encompasses the entirety of history