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“He left mecompletely afire with a great love for God. The pain was so sharp that it made me utter several moans; and soexcessive was the sweetness caused me by this intense pain that one can neverwish to lose it.”
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-St. Teresa
-Visions -Southern Baroque -Her encounter with god ~sexual ~emotional connection with god |
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“Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;” |
-John Donne -Holy Sonnets -Northern Baroque -Talks about death, death cannot kill, shouldn’t fear death ~4 arguments 1. Death shouldn’t beproud, it isn’t fearful 2. Death looks like rest& sleep, which is pleasurable ~uses logic and personifies death 3. Death is in a bad place 4. Shouldn’t fear deathbecause it will eventually die- we live infinitely in the afterlife ~Death is personified |
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"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished/”
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-John Locke
-Essay Concerning Human Understanding -Northern Baroque/ scientific revolution -Optimistic, all people are born equal and our lives that we lead are what shape us ~Our experiences are what give us color, use our senses to know |
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“One day,when all our people were gone out to their works as usual and only I and my dear sister were left to mind the house, two men and a woman got over our walls, and in a moment seized us both, an without giving us time to cry out or make resistance they spotted our mouths and ran off with us into the nearest wood.”
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-Equiano
-Equiano’s travels -enlightenment -About a slaves travels from Africa to US, ~Intends to persuade white Christian slave holders that slave trade is bad by talking about cruelty and pain of their lives, compares slaves to animals- their treatment on the boat, death and illnesses they face ~Prevent slaves from committing suicide because it would be a money loss ~Compares his childhood to that of a European child to get sympathy |
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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-Thoreau
-Walden -Romanticism -Men remain in their present low and primitive condition, ~Become self sufficient ~Wants to find himself and see what nature can teach him- bc he wants to take control of his life and to live simply ~Want to become one with nature, leaves society. Nature is a teacher |
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“To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.” |
-Kipling
-White Man’s Burden -Realism/ pre modern -White v. non-white ~White are half devil, half child ~Send your sons to colonies to help the colored, it’s the white’s job to teach the colored, and it’s hard work ~You must be fully committed and can’t brag about it, shows how committed you are to god ~Real reason it’s written is s as an excuse for imperialism, to express racialism and as a reassurance that they aren’t doing anything bad |
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“Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!" As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another.” |
-Nietzsche
-The Madman -Pre- Modern -A group will always emerge, regardless of the group ~The mad man: makes fun of someone for searching for god “GOD IS DEAD” ~What is dead? 1. Morality, righteousness,hope, truth, faith ~Spiritual element of church is gone |
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated,back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his do me like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.”
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-Kafka
-The Metamorphosis -Modernism -Samsa turns into a cockroach, feels weak, unloved and worthless. He is an antihero ~Shows anxiety, seems to be unaffected that he is a cockroach, his life before was meaningless ~Shows self-disgust ~no human connection |
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“The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” |
-Yeats
-The Second Coming -Modernism -reacting to technology in the war- massive death tolls ~responding to rise of totalitarianism and impersonal killings from planes ~rise of the anti-christ |
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“Six milesfrom earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.” |
-Jarrell
-The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -Modernism Narrated after death, flat tone ~State of being- death, carelessness ~People are dehumanized ~war is being born to death, in belly of the ball- mother's womb |
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“Where is God now?
And I heard a voice within me answer him: Where is he?Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows….” |
-Weisel
-Night -Modernism 3 people revolted and were hung in front of everyone (2 adults, 1 child) ~Refused to turn anyone else in ~Hang the little boy to show no one is safe ~Older men had weapons ~Leaders because they took a stand for what they believed in- showed courage ~Gave lives to save others ~Where is god? They are god, hanging from the noose ~No hope left- anti-christ ~ Faith in god is being questioned |
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“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” |
-Thomas
-Do not go Gentle Into that Good Night -Existentialism -About his father on his death bed ~Tells him to fight death, don’t go without a fight ~wise men don’t accomplish anything in life ~Grave men are blinded by seriousness and wish they’d lightened up throughout life ~Good men realize their good deeds didn’t impact others ~There is still a chance with every breath ~No one has meaning unless they have meaning to you ~Cherish life because it’s the only thing we are sure of |
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“’Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to Sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,” |
-Shakespeare
-Hamlet- -Northern Renaissance -English felt good about themselves at the time ~Doesn’t want to die because he fears it ~Contemplates suicide ~We only suffer through life because we don’t know what death is |
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“Therefore ifthe Pope wished to use his power to prevent the calling of a free council, soas to prevent the reformation of the Church, we must not respect him or hispower; and if he should begin to excommunicate and fulminate, we must despisethis as the doings of a madman, and, trusting God, excommunicate and repel himas best we may.”
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-Luther
-Letter to German Nobility -Northern Renaissance -Higher figure have too much power ~Believes that everyone has a direct line to god, you shouldn’t have to go through a bishop or priest to talk to him ~Doesn’t believe in indulgences ~3 places after death 1. Heaven, 2. Hell 3. Purgatory |
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“Here I stand, ach, Philosophy
Behind me and Law and Medicine too And, to my cost, Theology – All these I have sweated through and through And now you see me a poor fool As wise as when I entered school! And this is all that I have found – The impossibility of knowledge! It is this that burns away my heart;” |
-Faust
-Goethe -Romantic Movement -Want knowledge and experience ~How is he a hero? 1. Studied a lot and feelslike he knows nothing, smartest guy around, yet dissatisfied, his knowledge isuseless and he’s poor w/ no reputation, he is depressed ~Calls for spirit world and devils to come in |
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“Lastly,there are idols which have immigrated into men’s minds from the various dogmas of philosophies, and also from wrong laws of demonstration."
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-Bacon
-Novum Organum -Northern Baroque -4 biases 1. Environment 2. Physical needs 3. Experiences 4. Miscommunication ~We have influences: family, media, religion, nationality, friends, teachers, etc. ~Miscommunication determines our understanding |
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;”
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-Jefferson
-Declaration of Independence -Enlightenment -Discusses enlightenment ideas from the time period |
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“Wild Spirit,which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!” |
-Shelley’s
-Ode to the West Wind -Romantic Period -talks to nature, very emotional and flowery ~talks to wind, skakes rain from the clouds, Mediterranean sea ~based on first 3 stanzas: pariases the wind because it touches every aspect of life, has power, is almighty, brings new life & cleansing rain, fear- brings adrenaline ~four ifs: if I were a 1. fly, leaf, wave, youngboy ~values innocence of childhood ~life makes you forget the fun things ~wants to be free and untamed ~dead leaves are like thoughts: wants wind to blow them away to make way for new ones |
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“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another,carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
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-Marx
-Communist Manifesto -Realist Period -All problems in history are because of different social classes- $$ ~War is about power and material possessions ~Oppressor vs. oppressed, Bourgeoisie vs. Proletarian ~Feudalism is used at the time ~Plague leads to serfs becoming more valuable, about half died off, so they bargained for wages ~4 arguments: 1. Is occupation valuebased on income? 2. What money can you make? 3. Are urbanareas dominating rural? 4. Is the town run bycentral gov't? |
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“Well, then, says I, what’s the use of you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn’t answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn’t bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time…”
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-Twain
-Huckleberry Finn -Realist Period -Narrated by Huck, shows realism ~Slave running from master (Jim), boy running from alcoholic father (Huck), Huck knows he’s doing something illegal by helping Jim. Jim plans to go back later to buy his wife and son. Huck contemplates helping and decides to continue ~What makes Huck a realist hero? 1. Going against what heshould be doing even though he knows it is wrong ~Antislavery book |
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“Though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald] brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short,I was afraid.” |
-Eliot
-The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -Modernism -Sad and gloomy poem ~He is going to a party, is afraid to ask a woman a question: justifies why he doesn’t ~Imagines a yellow fog: showing that his life us kind of in a haze, he is confused and pessimistic, self- conscious says he doesn’t even play the lead role in his own life ~Mermaids: beautiful women, they’re magical. He is losing the magic/ beauty in his life ~He is just an ordinary person, not a hero or villain- anti- hero |
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“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(12) Of vile,incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend,you would not tell with such high zest(13) To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory, The old Lie;” |
-Owen
-Dulce Et Decorum Est -Modernism -Title means it is fitting and proper to die for one’s country- disproven in the reading ~About war- by a soldier after war and seeing mustard gas kill. Uses powerful imagery ~Leave the battle, many people are injured/ dead, clothes ruined. Trudging through mud, dirty and slow. Uses sounds to make you speak slowly. Language speeds up when the action does ~Still feels stuck in the war |
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“Well? Shall we go?
Yes, let’s go. [They do not move.] [Curtain]” |
-Beckett
-Waiting for Godot -Existentialism -Shows how people will wait for guidance from god but he will never show up ~Shows disconnect between people |
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“What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.”
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-Loyolla
-Loyolla’s Spiritual Exercises -Southern Baroque -??? |
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“Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.” |
-John Donne
-Meditation -Northern Baroque -Is a conceit ~Gives a sense of community- we all impact each other God is in control of everything ~Don’t be afraid of death, it is better than life, even though the causes of death are frightening ~Life is like a book: god is author, volume is humanity, chapter is individual, translator is cause of death, translated is death and library is afterlife ~We will understand everything after death |
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“But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat; and as I observed that this truth, I think, hence I am, was so certain and of such evidence, that no ground of doubt, however extravagant,could be alleged by the Sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the Philosophy of which I was in search.”
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-Descartes
-Discourse on Method -Northern Baroque -Splits the self into soul and body ~The only thing we can’tdoubt is what we think |
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“Gentleman, it was necessary to abolish the fez, which sat on our heads as a sign of ignorance, or fanaticism, or hatred to progress and civilization, and to adopt in its place the hat, the customary headdress of the whole civilized world.”
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-Kemal
-Speech to the Congress of the People’s Republican Party -pre modernism -Won’t define themselves as pan- Islamic ~Many people have Caliphate, don’t want religious identity ~Don’t want new laws- protect old ones ~Believes that it is right in his head, maybe not in his heart though |
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“This land of Syria gave the West a Prophet /of purity and pity and innocence; / and Syria from the West as recompense /Gets dice and drink and troops of prostitutes.”
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-Iqbal
-Europe and Syria - Modernism -Middle east gave a prophet: either Jesus or Moses ~As a thank you: west gave drinking gambling and prostituion |
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“The idea I have developed in this pamphlet is an ancient one: It is the restoration of the Jewish State … The decision factor is our propelling force. And what is that force? The plight of the Jews.”
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-Herzl’s
-The Jewish State -Modernism -Jews constantly have to move bc prejudices- want their own land ~Jewish question isn’t social or religious, it’s national ~Tried blending with other ethnicities (Fought WWI with Germany) ~Want to focus energy on other things, not war, and it’d keep jews out of other countries |
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“But one thing is certain: resolve will leadto success. A dedicated nation, workingto accomplish the right, will certainly reach, with God’s help, the goalstoward which it strives. The followingare the chapter headings for a reform based upon the true spirit of Islam.”
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-The Muslim Brotherhood
-Toward the Light - modernism -No political parties- Legal system on the Koran ~Start religious youth groups |
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Pieces we can use but don't have quotes for |
1. Lu Hsun- A Madman's Diary 2. Hobbes- Leviathan 3. Jonathon Swift- A Modest Proposal Thomas More- Utopia 4. Iqbal- The Revolution |
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Marriage of Arnolfini VanEyck Renaissance |
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Supper at Emmaus Caravagio Southern Baroque |
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The Rape of the Daughters of Luecipus Peter Paul Reubens Classical Baroque |
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The Geographer Vermeer Northern Baroque |
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The Anatomy Lessonby Dr. Nicholas Tulp Rembrandt Northern Baroque |
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Self Portrait of Apostle Rembrandt Northern Baroque |
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Gin Lane Hogarth Enlightenment |
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Battle of Horatii David Enlightenment |
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Haywin Constable Romanticism |
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Wiven Hoe Park Constable Romanticism |
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Lander's Peak Bierstadt Romanticism |
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Burial at Ornan Courbet Realism |
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Stone Breakers Courbet Realism |
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Agnew's Clinic Eakins Realism |
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The Wrestlers Eakins Realism |
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Impression, Sunrise Monet Pre- Modern |
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Starry Night Van Gogh Pre- Modernism |
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A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Seurat Pre- Modernism |
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Mes Demoiselles d'Avignon Picasso Modernism |
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Ma Jolie Picasso Modernism |
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Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey, and Blue Mondrian Modernism |
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The Scream Munch Modernism |
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I and the Village Chagall Modernism |
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Guernica Picasso Modernism |
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Nighthawks Hopper existentialism |
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Lavendar Mist Pollock Existentialism |
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Palace of Versailles Louis XIV lived there Classical Baroque |
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Water Lily Pond Monet Pre Modern |
