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    The document summarizes key themes and works of Romanticism from the 18th century to 1865. Some main themes included escapism, emotional intensity, nature as a refuge, and the presence of evil and death. Important works mentioned were Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, and The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, which explored themes of madness, fear of death, and the evil within humanity.

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    The document summarizes key themes and works of Romanticism from the 18th century to 1865. Some main themes included escapism, emotional intensity, nature as a refuge, and the presence of evil and death. Important works mentioned were Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, and The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, which explored themes of madness, fear of death, and the evil within humanity.

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    NIGHTEENTH CENTURY to

    1865 and ROMANTICISM


    MAIN THEMES
    Highly imaginative
    Escapism
    Emotional intensity
    Common man as hero
    Nature as refuge or source of spirituality
    Evil and Death
    MAIN WORKS
    Rip Van Tinkle (by Washington Irving)
    Main themes

    Highly
    Freedom Escapism
    imaginative.
    The Last of the
    Mohicans
    1826
    (James
    Fenimore
    Cooper)
    Main themes
    Interracial love and frienship

    The important role of nature

    Heroic symbols: Hawkeye

    Evil: Magua
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    -Edgar Allan Poe-
    Human fear of
    death and the
    evil in the human
    heart

    Madness
    Roderick + narrator + Madeline
    The house and his inhabitants are
    permeated by evil.

    absorbed an evil
    diseased atmosphere Death
    murky ponds
    decaying trees
    Invite close friend to heal.

    Tell about the disease, disease of the family, no


    medical.
    Madeline catalepsy

    Bury alive Madeline.


    The
    anxiety, beginning
    Sign of madness nervousness, of the
    depression story

    Screaming, The end of


    frighten the story
    1.Emotional intensity:

    Love/Hate - Mixed emotions.

    +Cat: the pet ->the enemy (cut his eye out with a
    pen-knife , hung to the limb of a tree ).

    +Wife: the lover->the enemy (buried the axe in


    her brain, killing her).
    2.Evil
    -Names : The BLACK cat, PLUTTO.
    -Addiction (alcohol) ->negative acts.
    -Violent acts :
    +Losing cateyes.
    +Hanging.
    +Buring the axe in his wifes brain.
    - Crime:
    Hide the body in a space behind the cellar wall.
    3.Death:

    Death is the central focus of the entire story.


    What causes the narrator to become a murderer?

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