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Romantic Writers • Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. • Examples: Johann Wolfgang and Alexandre Dumas • Faust, Three Musketeers, The Hunchback of Nortre Dame .
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Page 1: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Romantic Writers• Heros were mysterious, melancholoy

and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny.

• Examples: Johann Wolfgang and Alexandre Dumas

• Faust, Three Musketeers, The Hunchback of Nortre Dame.

Page 2: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Sir Walter Scott

Johann Wolfgang

Alexandre Dumas

Page 3: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Romantic Architecture

• Medieval Gothic style for buildings and the look of towns.

Page 4: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Romantic Art• Capture the beauty and power of

nature.

• Painted many subjects from peasants to knights to current events.

• Bright colors conveyed violent energy and emotion.

Page 5: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Eugene Delacroix-Liberty Leading the People

Ah ah!

Page 6: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Romantic Music• Inspired deep emotion.

• Traditional folk melodies glorified a nations past.

Page 7: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Frederic Chopin• Used Polish peasant dances to convey

the sorrows and joys of people living under foreign occupation.

Page 8: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

First Orchestra!• Took shape in the 1800’s.

Page 9: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Ludwig von Beethoven(1770-1827)

• First to use orchestra• Wrote from the heatrt conveying intense

emotional struggle.• Admired Napoleon until he crowned himself

emporer.• Produced 9 symphonies total , an opera, and

dozens of small pieces.• 1798-Began to lose hearing. Died in poverty,

angry and depressed.

Page 10: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Realism• Attempt to represent the world as it was

without sentiment.

• Artists were committed to reforming or improving the lives of the less fortunate.

Page 11: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Realist Literature• Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist,

Depicted crime and lives of the poor.

• Victor Hugo: Les Miserable, Depicted how hunger drove a man to crime.

• Emile Zola: Germinal, Depicted warfare in the mining industry.

Page 12: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Charles Dickens

Victor Hugo

Page 13: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Realist Drama• Henrik Ibsen: Doll’s House, Illustrates

how women are caught in a straight jacket of social rules.

Page 14: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Realist Art• Ordinary subjects, especially working

class men and women.

Page 15: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Female Realists• Charlotte Brontes-Jane Eyre

• Emily Brontes-Wuthering Heights

• Harriet Beecher Stowe-Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Kate Chopin-The Awakening

Page 16: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

HarrietBeecher Stowe Kate Chopin

Page 17: Romantic Writers Heros were mysterious, melancholoy and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Examples:

Photography• Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot

produced first successful phtographs.• Stiff portraits of the middle class or

prominent people.• Later used to expose slums and social

ills.• Matthew Brady-Exposed civil war

corpses on the battlefield.


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