Ruskin Article Flashcards
What is the name of the article?
The Nature of Gothic
When was it published?
1853
By teaching a man to copy what you are doing, he is not thinking for himself?
‘He was only a machine before, an animated tool.’
The differing roles of men?
‘You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both.’
What does he believe is the effect of treating people like tools?
Men were not intended to work like the accuracy of tools, to be perfect in everything that they do. In order to make them like this, you must dehumanise him.
Why do people want money?
Men are not ill fed, but they have no pleasure in their work, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure
What was the opinion on manual labour?
Two assumptions of the period are that one man’s thoughts ought to be executed by another man’s hand, and that manual labour is degradation.
We want one man to be thinking and one man to be working, and then we call one a gentleman and one an operative.
What does he believe that imperfection is?
‘the sign of life in a mortal body’