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47 Cards in this Set
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4 Terms to describe the period
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1- Neoclassicism
2- Age of Reason 3- Century of Light 4- The Enlightenment |
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Background to the Neclassical Period: Historical/Political
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1- Time of Expansion
2- Time of singular national figures 3- Time of subdued conflict b/t church and state |
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Background to the Neclassical Period: Scientific
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Time of great strides in national physical laws
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Background to the Neclassical Period: Philosophic/Religious
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Time of rationalism (scientific method)
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Two views of Humanity
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Mind vs. Matter
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Idealists
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mind or spirit forms ultimate reality
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Materialists
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Matter or body constitute ultimate reality
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Two Views Concerning Human Condition
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Ancients and Moderns
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Ancients
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Pagan antiquity held the model for human conduct and aspiration
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Moderns
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Current culture could excel the Greeks and Romans
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Deism
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An attempt to reconcile Christianity w/rationalism
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Satire
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A blend of criticism and humor, usually for the sake of improving humanity
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Wigs Political Party
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Progressives (opposed monarchist rule)
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Tories Political Party
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Conservatives (favored aristocratic rule)
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Popular Religions of 1700 and 1800s
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Deism and Methodism
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Industry in the 1700s
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Base of machinery-- emphasis on Newton
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Form
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slightly informal discourse
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Tone
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Conversational, reflective
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Three Causes of Evil
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1- Natural Causes
2- Inherent human limitations 3- Moral Evil |
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Tartuffe: A fake
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Sympathy characters denounce him as a fake
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Cleante: anti-tartuffe character
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Voice of Reason
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Orgon: a man consumed with his passion
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Desires piety; believes only in what he sees
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Louis XIV: anti-Organ character
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Sees beyond appearances; rational
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Characterists of a Protagonist (Tartuffe?)
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1- Absolute Power
2- Blinded by appearances, false values, or money |
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Themes of Tartuffe
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1- Corrupt people desire power
2- Great passion leads to selfishness and destruction 3- People can manipulate good for evil 4- The gullibility of humanity rests with deciever and the decieved |
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Key Phrase of Essay on Man
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"Whatever is, is right."
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Leibniz's Vindiction of the goodness of God in respect to the existence of evil
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Theodicy
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Philosophical Dialogue
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Dialogue which employs striking irony
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Tension between philosophical outlooks in Candide
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Pangloss- Utter Optimism
Martin- Utter Pessimism |
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Key Phrase from Candide
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Tend your garden
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Another work of Swift
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Journal to Stella
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4 Voyages of Gulliver
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1- Lilliput (rude, little people)
2- Brobdingnag (nice, giants) 3- Laputa (Aristocratic Tyrants) 4- Land of the Houyhnhnms (horse people and yahoo people) |
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Thematic Focus of Gulliver's Travels
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Rational freedom
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Two groups in Houyhnhnmland
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Houyhnhnms- society- reason
Yahoos- individual- emotion |
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What Gulliver and the Houyhnhnms lack
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Love/Charity
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Genre of Tartuffe
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French Classic Comedy Drama
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Genre of The Rape of the Lock
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Mock Epic
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Genre of The Essay on Man
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Philosophical Poetry
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Genre of Candide
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Conte (Philosophical Tale)
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Genre of A Modest Proposal
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Pamphlet/Essay
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Genre of Gulliver's Travels
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Travel Log (Fictional)
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Author of Tartuffe
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Moliere
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Author of The Rape of the Lock
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Pope
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Author of Essay on Man
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Pope
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Author of Candide
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Voltaire
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Author of A Modest Proposal
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Swift
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Author of Gulliver's Travels
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Swift
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