Instruction
EXERCISE A
1) Read the following quotes from Romantic Era novels. Think about how the following passages are similar to each other. On a separate piece of paper, first, group together elements you feel are similar and then list reasons why, when grouped, these elements resemble the Romanticism Era.
-“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing… As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” Moby Dick
-“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women… Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.” War and Peace
-“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor…There is no hypocrisy so great as the words which we say to ourselves, "I wish to know the worst!" At heart we do not wish it at all. We have a dreadful fear of knowing it. Agony is mingled with a dim effort not to see the end. We do not own it to ourselves, but we would draw back if we dared; and when we have advanced, we reproach ourselves for having done so.” The Man Who Laughed
-“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” Frankenstein
-“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! …Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.” Faust
2) Considering the elements, you identify in question #1, think about how the following images are similar to each other. Again, group together elements you feel are similar and then list reasons why, when grouped, these elements resemble the Romanticism Era.(Images will be attached)