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2. Revolution Throughout history, numerous people have started revolutions in many ways by displaying progressive ideas and fighting for the liberal changes in their society. One such example is Olympe de Gouges, who courageously advocated for the rights of women in her writing “The Rights of Woman”. During Gouges’ time, women were living by social standards that made them inferior to men. In hopes of influencing the public with her notions and showing support for the females, Gouges,…

In “A Modest Proposal,” Jonathan Swift has a suggestion for preventing children of poor Irish families from becoming a burden and becoming beneficial to the public; his suggestion includes fattening up the malnourished children to feed to rich landowners and selling poor children from the age of one to a meat market for later consumption. Swift seems to have thoroughly thought this plan through; however, by saying, “I can think of no one objection that will possibly be raised against this…

The Enlightenment, which began in the late 17th century, was a period of intellectual, philosophical, social and cultural advancement. Writers during the Enlightenment relied on reason to back the arguments they created in their plays, essays, poems, etc. The structure of the social hierarchy, religion, and education were ideas that were commonly written about in this period. In Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, she addresses the obvious social superiority men have over…

For many centuries, slavery was one of the common, yet cruel, practices that among many nations. Because of the many individuals who have suffered the adversities from enslavement, people developed numerous different views towards slavery. In the Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African”, Equiano focuses on his own past experiences as a slave that led to his political motivation to end slavery. At a young age,…

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Miguel Hidalgo (Hidalgo) was a foremost a man, and secondly a priest. He did not like to be controlled by outside forces, but forcibly conceded to working under the watchful eye of the Catholic Church. Through this Hidalgo was presented with many conflicting ideas regarding the importance of faith of which the standards were set by the Catholic Church, and reason, which was influenced, by the ideas of the Enlightenment. Hidalgo, the historical character is presented as being someone who saw…

Moliére’s plays are filled with farce, as this old art form started to regain momentum among Italian actors. After studying all of these art forms in school, he was finally putting them into practice. He started realizing that this style was finally reaching the audience. This comedic genre developed characters and events that were over exaggerated to create a He then used the structure of farce that included a run of stock characters (masters, servants, fools, braggarts, cuckolds, mistresses,…

Molière’s sentiment “to correct men by amusing them” is embodied in “The Imaginary Invalid,” or “The Hypochondriac.” Written in 1673, his final play defines his legacy, begun when he traveled through the French countryside with Madeleine Béjart and their Illustre Théǎtre. That was when he encountered the Commedia dell’Arte, the basis for modern comedy, adding its elements into his plays. Like many Enlightenment authors, including Corneille, Racine and Boileau, he resolutely applied Aristotle’s…

attending the University of North Georgia, I took a required world literature class with Professor Kluczykowski, and to be honest, I felt slightly overwhelmed in the beginning. I was scared to speak up in class; nervous to voice my opinion about Tartuffe for fear of of saying something stupid. But after a while, I realized that we were all just students reading the same material and I eventually found my voice. Professor Kluczykowski introduced a new world to us and I considered things I never…

Semester One Final Essay: Rethinking The Frogs Debate The two playwrights I have chosen for the purpose of this essay are Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), known by his stage name as Molière, and Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906). Molière was born on January 15th in Paris, France and is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. I have chosen Molière as one of my two playwrights because I believe that one of the ways to ‘save society’ is through comedy. Ibsen…