What types of changes do you see in Dimmesdale? What accounts for his change?

Do you see any elements of the Romantic worldview in the last six or seven chapters? Cite one or two examples from the book.

Romanticism is the name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason.

—Romantics believed that the imagination was able to discover truths that the rational mind could not reach.

—Usually accompanied by powerful emotion and associated with natural, unspoiled beauty.

—Imagination, individual feelings, and wild nature were of greater value than reason, logic, and cultivation.

—Romantic writers placed a new emphasis on intuitive, “felt” experience and often contrasted poetry with science, which they saw as destroying the very truth it claimed to seek.

—The romantics wanted to rise above “dull realities” to a realm of higher truth and searched for exotic settings in the more “natural” past or in a world far removed from the grimy and noisy industrial age.

—Romantic writers tried to reflect on the natural world until dull reality fell away to reveal underlying beauty and truth. 

Summary of Romanticism Powerpoint—

Values feeling and intuition over reason.

—Place faith in inner experience and the power of imagination.

—Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature.

—Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication.

—Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual.

—Reflects on nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development.

—Looks backward to the wisdom of the past and distrusts progress.

—Finds beauty and truth in exotic locales, the supernatural realm and the inner world of the imagination.

—Sees poetry as the highest expression of imagination.

—Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folklore.

HW: Read chapter 22 for homework.  You do not need to post a question.

On Wednesday or Thursday, we will have a quiz similar to our last quiz.  It will cover chapters 14-24 (50 points - a mix of close reading, rhet analysis, and vocab (vocab will be limited to the chapter 15-19 list).

Your first draft of your essay is due