Romanticism Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Discussion Board Questions

Question 1
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift contains many aspects that are difficult to understand. One of the aspects that Swift constantly uses in his work and that are one of the major sources of understanding difficult is irony. I experienced great difficulty in understanding the poem because of the presence of irony. The irony is demonstrated at the story’s end where Swift states that his proposal would not in any way affect him because all of his children have matured and his wife is unable to give birth anymore. It is actually absurd to imagine ...

Philosophy is an interesting discipline as it tries to find answers to several challenging aspects of man and the processes of nature. Since time immemorial, man has been in a quest to find the self and understand the surrounding in which they reside. In the West, realism and romanticism were two competing cultural thoughts and artistic styles aimed at communicating the interactions/relationships between mankind and nature. Romantics associated with Plato emphasized on individual heroic achievement, power of emotions and mysticism dominating the European intellectual life while realists associated with Aristotle focused art and literature to more tangible matters with the ...

Introduction

After the World War II, the US became one of the most powerful nations in the world in par with the United Kingdom. The span of American power is not determined by its highly trained military units and rich wealth distribution; the American power primarily lies on the cultural aspects especially most writers, both foreign and native Americans discuss the premise of the American Dream, a philosophical ideology which became an integral part in forming the nation’s identity. As early as 1931, the famous American historian named James Truslow Adams envisioned an ideal land which follows the utopian ideals in ...

Emotionalism

Introduction
The emotionalist school of ethics providing the foundations to Romanticism in Art, as well as the promise of democracy in the French Revolution emerged in response to the English empiricism of Social Contract Philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Ideas of sympathy developed by the British school of moral philosophy propose an ethics of feelings, including the emotional transformation of rationalism’s limits in art, culture, politics and religion.
Such conceptions of human nature are found in the intellectual discourse of nineteenth century Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin. Ruskin summates early Modern notions ...