1. By Javon, Stefany, Shawlame
puritanism
By Javon, Stefany, Shawlame

2. Major works The Crucible - John Proctor = tragic hero
Anne Bradstreet poetry- “Upon the Burning of Our House”
- use inverted syntax ( yoda talk = “ for sorrow near I do not look”)

3. Beliefs “ I believe so that I might understand”
People should be self reliant
Going to Heaven is only reserved for a few special people

4. Romanticism & Transcendentalism
By: Stefany, Shawlame, Javon

5. Transcendentalism What is Transcendentalism?
Transcendentalism is a belief that there is a spiritual reality that is above the physical reality
A goal for Transcendentalism is to aim for perfection

6. Closest to Romanticism

7. Basic beliefs
Everything in the world, including people, is a reflection of God, and the divine soul
The physical world is a doorway to the spiritual world
A person is his/her own authority not society, the church, or the government.
God is in nature

8. The roots of transcendentalism
Idealism ( Greek, 4thc B.C. )
Puritanism ( North American, 17th C )
Romanticism ( Europe and NA, Late 18th )
Transcendentalism ( NA, 19th C )

9. Romanticism
A school of thought that values feeling and intuition over reason.
Different from the modern definition of romantic

10. Principle Of Romanticism
A reaction against rationalism
The Declaration of independence is based on rationalist principles
The imagination can reach truths that the rational mind cannot.

11. Dark Romanticism
As opposed to the perfectionist beliefs of Transcendentalism, the Dark Romantics emphasized human fallibility and proneness to sin and self- destructions, as well as the difficulties inherent in attempts at social reform.
The dark romantics adapted images of anthropomorphized evil in the form of Satan, devils, ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and ghouls to help display humans inherit negatives.
Nathanial Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe ( coincides with Gothic )