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Luke Henson

Period 5

Unit 3

Romanticism & Transcendentalism

Theory of Short Story

  • One sitting
  • 1 theme or affect
  • Unity: everything develops the theme
  • Seems like complete story

Horror

  • "Dull", "Dark", "Desolate"
  • Usher knows life will end in terror
  • Buries Madeline alive
  • Madeline clawing her way out

Supernatural

  • Fissure in the house same as Family Tree
  • House dying along with everyone in family
  • When Madeline and Roderick die, the house crumbles
  • House has its own atmosphere
  • Events in book happening in the house

Greed

  • Names on the trees
  • Made deal with Devil to gain wealth
  • Wife
  • Hides everthing valuable from Tom
  • Goes and hunts down the Devil
  • Land speculation
  • Tom
  • Lends money to other to makes money from interest

People Don't change

  • Don't learn from their mistakes
  • Medborne: Business man
  • Speculator
  • tie whales to icebergs
  • Gasciogne: Politician
  • Same speech for 200 years
  • Killigrew: "Sinful pleasures"
  • Starts hitting on widow
  • Sings 99 bottles song
  • Widow: Self obssessed
  • Speaks of her beauty
  • Dr. Heidegger: Doctor
  • many failed experiments

Transcendentalists

  • knowledge exists beyond logic and reason
  • Intuition
  • Nature is knowing God and yourself
  • self reliance and awareness
  • Non-conformity

Self Reliance

  • Self confidence
  • Don't be a person society wants
  • Don't conform
  • Be yourself
  • We all have gifts
  • Connected to God

Nature

  • Nature is good
  • God is in nature
  • We are just a tiny object in Nature
  • Beauty is in nature
  • True happiness is found
  • Nature also shows the mood of you
  • Youth is found

Walden

  • Lived on Walden lake for 14 months
  • Proved:
  • You don't need money or amterials to be happy
  • Reduce life to basics
  • only worked for 6 weeks out of each year
  • only planted 1/3 of acre 2nd year

Civil Disobedience

  • Mannerly
  • Orederly
  • Community/Gov't
  • how to disobey unjust gov't
  • only break the unjust laws
  • in a nice way

Supernatural

  • See the Devil in the woods

The Raven

  • Poetry Techniques
  • Iambic Pentametor Couplets
  • Varied rhythm scheme, line length
  • Alliteration
  • A B C B B B

The Devil & Tom Walker

  • Gothic
  • Greed

Fall of the House of Usher

  • Gothic

Edgar Allan Poe

  • "Fall of the House of Usher"
  • "The Raven"
  • Gothic-Horror & Supernatural

Washington Irving

Danish Underground

Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • The Devil and Tom Walker
  • Supernatural
  • "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
  • Anti-Science
  • No perfect beings
  • Raised Puritan

Anti-Transcendalist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Self Reliance
  • Nature

Henry David Thoreau

  • Walden
  • Civil Disobedince
  • Teacher, inventor
  • Wonderous
  • Fiesty
  • Lived what Emerson preached
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