Orestes Brownson

Between all three readings within the article, the one that is the most believable is “Orestes Brownson Questions the Lowell System 1840”. Although the other two readings are very infOrmative and sound just as legitimate, this text gives off a very strong feeling of guilt and makes you feel bad for the women that work within the mills. Brownson, the writer of this reading, shows many facts about why Lowell System is bad for the women who work in the factories and how it benefits no one besides the boss of the entire factory instead. Brownson’s three main reasons why women, who work within the mills, are treated unfairly are, they do not work as long as they want in the mills, their bosses are gaining the most money by doing the least amount…

In the mid-1800’s, Orestes Brownson and Horrace Mann are both known for having strong acts on public education in America. Brownson approached with a Democratic Localism ideology and wanted schools to be operated by the people of the state, having the citizens choose what to learn and not to learn. Brownson also felt the board of education was an oppressive force against the people and that the school board’s goal was to be in favor of the wealthy. Mann aimed to give the people a common…

This claim is based on the presence of divine intervention within each work. In the Odyssey, Athena is a fundamental factor in Odysseus’ quest home, and eventual slaughter of his wife’s suitors. Her intervention creates an unfair advantage for Odysseus, thus making his retribution against the suitors not fully just. In the Oresteia, the forced intervention of Apollo telling Orestes to commit Matricide is what causes the Furies to flock to Orestes, claiming that he needs to be punished. Orestes’…

Greeting his sister Electra, he reveals that the oracle of Apollo require that he avenge his father. He kills his mother and her lover similarly to how she killed Agamemnon, and afterwards seeks Delphic council to purify himself. Later departing to Athens, his mother Clytemnestra’s ghost spurs the Furies to seek revenge against Orestes. These Furies, as they exist in the Athenian mythological culture, represent the human urge to punish those who have done wrong. In effect, their vengeful fury…

the respect owed by Orestes to his father is the driving plot in the second play in the trilogy. However, both Clytemnestra and Orestes prove that the mother has sway over her children as well in ancient Greek life. When they finally grasp the meaning of the dream, Clytemnestra bares her breast to her son, a reminder of the connection the two of them shared long ago. Despite being the snake coiled around her breast in the dream, ready to bite, this reminder causes Orestes to hesitate. Both…

Between 1790 all through 1860 America was a new country trying to learn how to run itself. The success of the American Revolution brought hope of a country with a just government; a nation where every citizen has a say in how things are run. I believe America had only started to envision that, with citizens like William Manning proposing thoughts on how American government could be, but with concern about how it could get corrupted. The way some citizens would stay oppressed while others…

Brownson’s Assessment Horace Mann gained support for his educational reform during the 19th century, yet there was some opposition to his proposals. Orestes Brownson constructed the best appeal to his reforms with several well-grounded concerns. Brownson reveals Mann’s undermining of the democratic and meritocracy society through the education of students and their educators, the extension of politics into education, and using education as a means of mass control. Mann’s ideas for the…

Industrial states employed factory wage laborers, and slave states had plantation owners who used slaves as the work force. Ideas of which society was better started growing and eventually City life was compared to Country Life. Each movement was integral in shaping the divergence in economic social system of the North represented by capitalist and proletariats (wage labor) and of the South represented by freeholders and tenant farmers (slave labor). These two different social systems caused two…

American transcendentalism is the movement begin in the mid of 1830s and the mid of 1840s, as a religious and a philosophical discussion by few ministers and has gained a lot of importance and became a dominant movement. The Transcendentalism movement is closely related to Unitarianism, in the early nineteenth century which was the very dominant and the powerful religious movement in Boston. It started to develop in the aftermath of Unitarianism taking hold at Harvard University. Many great…

be rather relaxing. Nature was the essential element in the process of living a pure and simple life. He didn’t want human beings to overcomplicate or overanalyze their lives because he also believed that life would pass by rapidly if we spent too much time focusing on the details and hindrances in our lives. If we spent as much time appreciating the environment that surrounds us as we worry about our problems, then maybe we wouldn’t be so overwhelmed with all the events that take place…