Essential Question
-The beliefs of optimism and individualism are reflected in romantic writings by their use of an outsider trying to 'fit in with the crowd'. In the Life You Save May Be Your Own, the author uses the stranger (Shiftlet) who comes from nowhere and gets in with the family. Shiftlets' optimism about fixing everything for the lady is what starts the process of him moving closer in with the family. Also, In the Sleepy Hollow, The author uses Ichabod to show how individualism because of his awkwardly shaped body and his height. He also shows that because of his optimism he started to become closer to the girl he liked, Mrs. Van Tassel, but in the end he was ran out of town by 'Mr. Macho' Brom Bones.
-Romanticism is a style of writing that uses feeling rather than logic. So instead of saying that an apple is 1.23 lbs and has 13 black spots, a romanticist would describe how the apple would taste and what it could represent in different scenarios. Gothic romanticism is using all the key traits of romanticism and adding others like grotesque, gloomy or mysterious settings along with violence or the supernatural to create a mood of suspense or awe. Although southern Gothic romanticism is similar it uses all the above traits and adds in a southern setting; like a front porch or a farm scene. Also there is usually an important character with either a mental disability or an actual physical disability who is different than the world who often will have a negative view on the world or society. Although these genres are all very similar they also have numerous differences like setting, mood/tone, and time periods. A romanticist story could take place inside cafe in London, however a Gothic romanticist story would take place in an abandoned haunted house where only a child lives now.
-The Southern Gothic movement was a response to the literary movements that preceded it because it took several of their traits, such as horror or creepiness from the Gothic Romanticism standpoint and the emotional basis from the Romanticism point of view. It combines its past to make its present. By this, i mean S.G.R. writers take what they have been given; Romanticism and Gothic Romanticism, and combine them along with their own personal twist. That, "twist" is the settings that they have either grown up in or that they have moved to and conformed to. Also they manipulated the romantic literary conventions by keeping the same types of moods and tones while looking into other subject matter so in a sense they have just tweaked certain parts of the style of literature while still calling it Romanticism.
-The dark sides of american culture prompted the dark sides of Romanticism such as Gothic Romanticism and Southern Gothic Romanticism. The society of back then along with all new religious 'fads'; witch hunts and hangings, started a fire in the hearts of Romanticism writers. Except it wasn't a fire, because it didn't give off light, it dragged away every source of light until you were in a bottomless pit of depression, dourness and gloom, while giving a macabre plot to top it all off. Although the writers used traits off Romanticism, they converted them to a much darker version due to such thoughts of death, killing, murder and the supernatural. America grew up with a fear of the supernatural due to witch hunts and headless horsemen, while being appalled with the thought of dying or being killed for anything.
-Writings of the Romanticism period, influence the writings of this time period; modern day america, by giving us our horror classics, our romantic novels, and of course Fried green tomatoes. They give us our culture so to speak of literature, our foundation, our building blocks from which we have prospered into the many different styles of writing that we have today.
-Romanticism is a style of writing that uses feeling rather than logic. So instead of saying that an apple is 1.23 lbs and has 13 black spots, a romanticist would describe how the apple would taste and what it could represent in different scenarios. Gothic romanticism is using all the key traits of romanticism and adding others like grotesque, gloomy or mysterious settings along with violence or the supernatural to create a mood of suspense or awe. Although southern Gothic romanticism is similar it uses all the above traits and adds in a southern setting; like a front porch or a farm scene. Also there is usually an important character with either a mental disability or an actual physical disability who is different than the world who often will have a negative view on the world or society. Although these genres are all very similar they also have numerous differences like setting, mood/tone, and time periods. A romanticist story could take place inside cafe in London, however a Gothic romanticist story would take place in an abandoned haunted house where only a child lives now.
-The Southern Gothic movement was a response to the literary movements that preceded it because it took several of their traits, such as horror or creepiness from the Gothic Romanticism standpoint and the emotional basis from the Romanticism point of view. It combines its past to make its present. By this, i mean S.G.R. writers take what they have been given; Romanticism and Gothic Romanticism, and combine them along with their own personal twist. That, "twist" is the settings that they have either grown up in or that they have moved to and conformed to. Also they manipulated the romantic literary conventions by keeping the same types of moods and tones while looking into other subject matter so in a sense they have just tweaked certain parts of the style of literature while still calling it Romanticism.
-The dark sides of american culture prompted the dark sides of Romanticism such as Gothic Romanticism and Southern Gothic Romanticism. The society of back then along with all new religious 'fads'; witch hunts and hangings, started a fire in the hearts of Romanticism writers. Except it wasn't a fire, because it didn't give off light, it dragged away every source of light until you were in a bottomless pit of depression, dourness and gloom, while giving a macabre plot to top it all off. Although the writers used traits off Romanticism, they converted them to a much darker version due to such thoughts of death, killing, murder and the supernatural. America grew up with a fear of the supernatural due to witch hunts and headless horsemen, while being appalled with the thought of dying or being killed for anything.
-Writings of the Romanticism period, influence the writings of this time period; modern day america, by giving us our horror classics, our romantic novels, and of course Fried green tomatoes. They give us our culture so to speak of literature, our foundation, our building blocks from which we have prospered into the many different styles of writing that we have today.
