Literature

Cards (36)

  • El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha the full name of don quixote
  • Don Quixote was by: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • his goals are: justice, equality and freedome
  • Themes
    ·       Realism VS Idealism
    ·       Truth VS Lie
    ·       Madness VS Sanity
    ·       Heroism VS Love
  • Alonso Quijano Don Quixote’s full name
  • Sancho Panza His squire
  • Rocinante His Horse
  • Lady Dulcinea Del Toboso His Lady / Farmer
  • Helen Lady/ Princess in the Inn
  • Inn – Castle
    Windmills – Giants
    Two Friars – Magicians
    Biscayan Squire – his last battle
  • Romantic Period ( 1785-1830 )
  • Romantic Period focuses on poetry
  • the theme of romantic period are Feelings, Emotion, Imagination & Intuition Emphasis on Nature
  • Byronic Hero is an Anti Hero
  • William Blake- prophet / created own mythology “Jerusalem” “The Four Zoas/Vala”
  • William Wordsworth- criticized by Robert Browning / conservative
     “A riband to stick his coat”  “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge- supernatural poetry; religious prose
         “Kublah Khan” “Cristabel” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”  “Cristabel”
  • George Gordon (Lord Byron)- favored traditional forms / satire / original byronic hero
         “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”  “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.”
  • John Keats- died from tuberculosis at 25 “To Autumn” “Ode on Melancholy.”
  • Percy Bysshe Shelly- “To a Skylark” “Ozymandias”  “Ode to the West Wind” ‘Adonais”
  • The Victorian Period ( 1837-1901 )
  • Victorian Era is based on Novels
  • Social Classification (Upper Class, Middle Class, Lower Class)
  • Charles Dickens- dominated the first half of Victorias Reign
    First Novel: Pickwick Papers (1836) Last Novel: Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)
  • William Thackeray- Dicken’s Rival. Famous work: Vanity Fair (1848)
  • Charlotte Bronte- Jayne Eyre (1847)
  • Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights (1847)
  • Anne Bronte- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
  • George Eliot- (masculine pseudonym) Mary Ann Evans:
     “Middlemarch (1872)”  “The Mill on the Floss (1860)”
  • Work by Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
  • Work by Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
  • Marrying someone to appease the parents and society
  • Marrying someone to have a companion in life
  • Marriage out of C- Convenience
  • Marriage out of L- Love
  • Sensory Images refers to the use of descriptive language that appeals to the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.