IWBAT evaluate themes in the short stories of American Romanticism, especially as they relate to the American Dream. The class started off today analyzing a text to see if it was romantic or not,"In truth, all through the haunted forest, there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown. On he flew, among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied gesture, now giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter, as set all the echoes of the forest laughing like demons around him. The fiend in his own shape in less hideous, than when he rages in the breast of man." Phrases from the text like, "haunted forest", and,"like demons", show that these tones were from Dark Romantics.
Dark Romantics were authors who embodied Romantic ideals but with negative tones and pessimistic themes. For example, themes like fearful, foreboding, diabolic, ghoulish, cynical, and vindictive are more negative tones. Two famous authors who were Dark Romantics were Edgar Alan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Dark Romantics believed in absolute truth, beauty, good, and evil.
Towards the end of class, we got in our groups and continued working on assignment #10, which is to read Rip Van Winkle and pick out the different tones that stand out in each colored section. Learning more about Dark Romantics how their use of more negative tones and themes and how to pick those out when reading. This way we are now able to understand the deeper meaning of the text and analyze the correct tone/theme.
No comments:
Post a Comment