Ch. 4.4 Culture: Romanticism and Realism

Question 1

romanticism

Answer 1

movement emerged as reaction against Enlightenment. wanted arts to express feeling, emotion, imagination

Question 2

secularization

Answer 2

indifference to/ rejection of religion in affairs of world. truth found in science and existence of human beings

Question 3

organic evolution

Answer 3

Darwin’s principle that each species had evolved over millions of years from simpler life forms

Question 4

natural selection

Answer 4

process in which only the fittest survive and reproduce

Question 5

realism

Answer 5

movement in which the arts portray ordinary life. opposite of romanticism

Question 6

(a) abandon

Answer 6

“Second, romantic artists ABANDONED classical reason for warmth and emotion.”

Question 7

(a) adapt

Answer 7

“Darwin believed that some organisms are better able to ADAPT to changes in the environment than others.”

Question 8

(a) variation

Answer 8

“Survivors pass on the VARIATIONS that allowed them to survive until a new, separate species emerges.”

Question 9

(a) controversy

Answer 9

“Darwin’s ideas raised a storm of CONTROVERSY.”

Question 10

(p) Ludwig van Beethoven

Answer 10

one of most famous composers of romantic era. bridge between classical and romantic

Question 11

(p) Louis Pasteur

Answer 11

Frenchman. proposed germ theory of disease.

Question 12

(p) Charles Darwin

Answer 12

created concept of human beings as part of natural world. {On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection}—ideas of organic evolution and natural selection. create dispute in religion.

Question 13

(p) Charles Dickens

Answer 13

British. wrote novels that showed life for the poor in the Industrial Age. {Oliver Twist} {David Copperfield}