Realism

-A Story of an Hour-

-She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window-

The evidence that i found explains in detail the scenery out of the characters window which is an example of realist because they like specific detail.

-When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body-

I think its kind of good to be detailed about curtain things and let people see the truth in thing. This text of evidence show how she felt reveled of her husband.


-The battle with Mr Covey-

-Mr. Covey took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half- bushel measure, and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head, making a large wound, and the blood ran freely; and with this, again told me to get up.-

The way the realist wanted people to see every thing in detail can get emotional. I like their style and I think its better to see things in detail than to be naive about things. The text explains how a slave got beat for obviously getting sick. Its unbelievable how people can be so cruel and heart less.

-At this moment I resolved to go to my master, enter a complaint, and ask his protection. In order to [do] this, I must that afternoon walk seven miles; and this, under the circumstances, was truly a severe undertaking-

The slave wants to solve the issue of getting protection because he is being beaten. As I said before the realist have a good point on showing detail but it can get emotional.


Black Panther

In my opinion the movie Black Panther is a good example of realism because the movie is very detailed. The movie explains how the panthers came to be and their struggle to get their. It was a movement that consisted of African Americans fighting for their rights. The movie isn't censored and it is why I consider it to be realism the detail that is seen is bizarre, these innocent people getting killed for no apparent reason and beat for just being born different.

Dark Romanticism

I don't necessarily consider my self either Transcendentalist or Dark Romantic. I can say that their are certain things I agree with each one but their are also things that I don't agree with so I don't consider my self either one.





-When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys-

I heard "The Masque of Red Death". What I got from this story was how Poe acknowledged evil. I think this story is a good example in his way to contradict the transcendentalist because hes trying to show the reader peoples minds don't just revolve around pure good it as well has evil in it.





-The Raven-



Over all I liked the poem. I did find it hard to believe in the bird, well more like the meaning the poet was trying to give the raven. I can see how this poem can be against transcendentalist but in my opinion its kind of hard to catch on to it in poems or stories.

Transcendentalism

-Nature-

*I am not solitary while I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars*

I liked the piece of writing. Over all it was good and these lines personally graded my attention from everything else. I like nature and I think everything about it is beautiful except for bug!! I think the writer did a wonderful job in depicting the stars because most of humanity enjoy them the most. Like some teenage love bi

In my opinion Nature is transcendentalist because they believe in hard work so by being in nature and working hard god cant speak to them.





-Self-Reliance-

*If you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today*


I really liked this piece of writing. The author was so intense in his explanation that this essay really caught most of my attention. In my opinion their are lots of people afraid to speak up especially in what they believe in and this author was just plain blunt about it. He even gave direct names of people who were misunderstood but kept fighting for what they believe in.



Self-Reliance is a form of transcendentalism because of the way the writer portrays self judgement. Since they believed that god spoke to people through hard work and their minds this piece of writing clearly portrays it.



-Resistance To Civil Government-

*Government is best which governs not at all*

I can agree and disagree with this writing. I like the fact how specific the author gets with details about the government. I think though that government should exist but to a certain extent because people get greedy and only look out for their own opinions.

In my opinion this is a good form of transcendentalism because they don't believe in a ruling government.

Wilderness

The hard work that man was doing can easily be applied to the transcendalist. He made his house with his bare hand and caught his food the same way.

Romaticism

The way romanticism is described, the story of Rip Van Winkle gives you good descriptions were you can clearly imagine what is being said. I guess almost like if you were actually in the story your self.





When the story first opens it gets very descriptive on the Catskill Mountains. Nature plays a role in the story as romanticism because as his wife is nagging him he turns to the land as an escape of freedom. He admires the beauty of it and can be their as long as he wants with out any worries.

Another example could be when rip van winkle is walking in the mountains he sees a group of men having a party so he approaches and gets drunk and sleeps for 20 years. When he awakes and goes into town he finds out that his wife had died and he can live with his daughter.



In my opinion the poem Thanatopsis is saying that you shouldn't be afraid of dying. The poet gives good detail to try and comfort those who are afraid by trying to kind of connect with the reader. I like when it say that even the kings and the most powerful will go to the same place because I guess in those day people were always reluctant on power and thinking that because they had money they might go to a special place. This particular part just caught my attention..

I think that the romantic part of this poem is that it talks about nature throughout the entire poem with an immense imagination.





I think that the point of this poem is that someone is thinking about ways a rope can be used for. The beginning of the poem stands out to me because of the way the building is being described inside it just makes me wonder wow he really doesn't want to be their. I think that so far to me this poem has really mad it clear as to why it is romantic because theirs someone in a place they don't want to be and their daydreaming of like a million ways to use a rope OUTDOORS..


This painting can be considered Romanticism because of the scenery. It displays a beautiful horizon of vast colors in the painting.

The Rationalists

The puritans believed that god saved those he wants and everything has to do with church and god. While the rationalists still believed in god but were more logical. They had a curiosity to know more about life other than Johnathan Edwards interpretation of it and explain it in a scientific matter.





"I concluded, at lenght, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping;and that the contrary habits must be broken , and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. I proposed to my self, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas, and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary desirable. I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time. I made a little book, in which i allotted a page for each of the virtues".

With that said he concluded that he can better him self by conducting an experiment. Were instead of praying and leaving it up to god, Benjamin Franklin thought out side the box and came up with a method of thirteen virtues. His method consisted of the virtues and a book were he mathematically recorded his daily actions toward those virtues. Benjamin Franklin can be considered a good rationalist because he managed to come up with a research and wasn't afraid to try it.

My thirteen virtues



1. Restraint- Self control

2.Patience- Don't become annoyed with ignorance

3.Forgiveness- Let go of resentment

4.Courage- Stand strong at weakest point

5.Faith- Believe in others

6.Tranquillity- Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.

7.Trust- To have confidence in others

8.Humility- Be humble
I know you asked for thirteen but I didn't want to repeat my self and these are the only virtues I would like to improve of my self.


I don't think I can reach moral perfection because these are my flaws and they as humans I think we can all be impulsive at times and that causes imperfection. I just think that their will be times were you can slip up. How ever I do think that I can do my best to change my flaws with his method and be satisfied with my self and others.

Puritans!!!

The puritans believed that jesus did not die for all of us, he died for only some. They said that we were all born sinners because of Adam and Eves sin. No matter what you did you were still going to hell. Their were only a few who were going to be saved and god choose them.



Seeing how these people actually believed Jonathan Edwards' interpretation is actually sad. The way he interpreted the word of god just put fear in people. It seems as though he just wanted total control over their emotions. His interpretations were always compared to some sort of disaster. "Thus it is that natural man is held in the hands of god over the pit of hell and that they have deserved it' I completely disagree with his interpretation. Yes we are all sinners but we have the oportunity to regain our selfs and be saved.

The way these people lived wasnt helthy. They worried so much about dieing and going to hell that they weren't happy within them selves. I'm not trying to point the finger but I thnk the interpreter of the word had the fault of these peoples fear of dieing. If the interpreter had not been so forsful with his words I think these people might of lived our moder day.

The voyage of the pilgrims was constructive. They meet the natives and befriended them. The natives were scared at first but aswell befriended the pilgrims and they came to an agreement. Their agreement constructed of six terms. One being that 'That neither he nor any of his should injure or do hurt to any of their people'. I think that for the puritans to know they were going to hell no matter what they did try to carry themselves well.