Test 1 Flashcards
Basho: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matsho Basho
From A Vindication of the Right of Woman
By Mary Wollstonecraft
Vertical hierarchy
Great chain of being
An essay on man
By Alexander pope
To St. John
Physically hurt yourself for god (usually how Jesus was hurt)
Mortifying the flesh
Voice of reason
Cleante
God of machine
Drugs ex machina
One of the most popular methods of writing, comedy meant to correct something
Satire
Prevailing belief in lit. And art
Must delight and instruct
Believe there is an all knowing, all powerful God, but removed from everyday life
Deism
Woman usually wrote:
Gothic fiction
Greek translation
Literary criticism
Many got frustrated, people can not dismiss _____
Emotion
The enlightenment ended the divine right, people lost faith in the _____
Church
For enlightenment
Modernist
Modernist wanted:
Recognition of individuality
Education for everyone
Intellectual growth
Geographical exploration
People opposed to the enlightenment
Ancients
Ancients were afraid of :
Lack of moral responsibility
Social alienation
Over focus on individualism
Ideal of the enlightenment
Reasonable = moral
“He who thinks reasonably must think morally”
Johnson
The enlightenment mainly focused on giving broad _____ to woman
Education
Term used for gaining illumination by using the power of the human mind
Enlightenment
“Era of Reason”
Late 1600s-1785 ish
Enlightenment