VWO 5 - 2 February 2022

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VWO 5
2 February 2022

Today

- Listening practice

- Literature: Romantic period

The Romantic Period is first and foremost a reaction to

1. rationalism and industrialisation
2. neoclassicism
3. The enlightenment
4. Christian dogmas

The French Revolution inspired the Romantics in its

1. emphasis on brotherhood
2. shout for freedom and rejection of authority
3. fashionable Frenchness
4. emphasis on feelings

Key Romantic themes

• The power of the natural world, which could inspire and heal men.
  
• The relationship between man and nature.
  
• Freedom/freedom of thought.
  
• Imagination.
  
• Childhood/childhood memories.
  
• Mythology.
  
• Revolution. The Romantics wanted to fight against the control of the government.
• The exiled hero.

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