Leopold von Ranke

he becomes the duplicitous, mad individual he has feigned. Hamlet, though sane in the beginning, becomes mad due predominantly to the immense burden of ambition. His internal struggle tears both his morale and his morals to shreds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe proposes that Shakespeare means to "represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance…

Frankenstein’s Monster Bibliotherapy In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, the education of Frankenstein’s Creature comes chiefly from the four books he read: Milton’s Paradise Lost, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, and Volney’s The Ruins. Reading these books, though increasing the Creature’s knowledge base, has a negative impact on his personality, making him despise the vices of mankind. There are other works that may have changed the…

Twain the Romantic Twain was many things as a writer- a satirist, a truth-teller, a critic- but he was not a romantic. The romantic era, in its heydey, was a time of literature dominated by grand ideas and mystic visions. Though many others joined this fantasy-ridden trend, many authors were critical of the romantic ideas that often lacked realistic properties. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was one of these critical authors. Through that particular piece of…

Friedrich Schlegel, a German poet, defined romanticism as, “literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form”. Romanticism was a movement in literature that was popular during the 18th century that primarily focused on the individual through imagination, freedom and emotion; feeling was valued over emotion. Edgar Allen Poe and Longfellow are two well-known writers who incorporated romanticism in their works. The romanticism traits of imagination and awe of nature are depicted in…

Regarding Romanticism and Transcendentalism within human nature, it’s ways of thinking, feeling, and acting are bound to have positive and negative aspects. Combining knowledge from each spiritual movement, one can compare the differences and practicalities. To begin, Romanticism’s outlook on ways of thinking is to follow the heart. This can mean knowing what’s better for one’s being, but ultimately choosing the hearts thoughts. Though the idea of listening to the heart protrudes images of…

Nostalgia of the past, individual uniqueness, whispers of wisdom on the wind, and horrible nightmares. These characteristics describe the Romantic time period. Romanticism distinguishes itself as an intellectual and artistic movement differentiated by a deeper interest in nature, the stress of emotional and imaginative expression of the individual, and the withdrawal of classicism. Whether the overall message appears as one of peace and prosper, or one of dark, devilish musings, the goal was to…

19th-century Romanticism was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement characterized by its emphasis on emotion, individualism, and the love of life. The Romantic hero is a literary archetype that serves as a personification of these ideals. The protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is a prime example of this archetype. Throughout the book Holden is strongly portrayed as an isolated individual, caring more for his own personal views than the paradigm.…

Contents INTRODUCTION 2 METHODS 2 Safe model 2 Light model 3 Material parameters 3 Analysis Methodolgy 3 RESULTS 4 Safe design 4 1. Displacement results 4 2. Stress results 4 Meshing 5 Light model: 6 1. Displacement results: 6 2. Stress results: 6 Meshing 7 DISCUSSION 8 INTRODUCTION A project was launched to use Finite Element Analysis to design two models, safe and light, to support an 18kg load and at the same time allow a block with the same dimensions as the mass…

Self-esteem is a critical part of one’s self-awareness as it heavily influences how we perceive and value ourselves (Beebe, Beebe & Ivy., p.32., 2007). Self-esteem also influences how we relate and interact with others as it can affect our perception. However, it is important to note that self-esteem is not static as it can change over the course of time or even over the course of a day due to both external and internal influences such as a television ads making you feel bad about your…

The quoted excerpt exhibits an access to Brahmanical knowledge and the endeavour of the late eighteenth century Orientalists to represent and translate for the West the Hindu myths and legends which would have an impact on Coleridge. Coleridge had begun making references to India and its mythologies comparatively late in his career as a poet. His approach to India had been that of a traditional Platonist, an attitude which experienced a renaissance through the work of these Orientalists in the…