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American Literature (MOVEMENT: Transcendentalism (THEME: Personal Freedom,…
American Literature
MOVEMENT:
Transcendentalism
THEME:
Personal Freedom
QUOTE:
"... I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only" (920).
~PARADOXES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT~
ESSAY:
Walden, or Life in the Woods, is about how Thoreau doesn't live the exact average lifestyle. He feels as though living by nature and its surroundings is how you should live life.
Walden Pond
Authors with this type of literary movement used in their short stories, typically have a sense of nature and its surroundings. Life is usually lived not the regular, average, typical way one would live. The typical life nowadays is looked upon living in a nice house, doing everyday chores, with a daily job in place, etc.
In writing pieces by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, they argue to live life by nature and its surroundings. Life is about being in the moment and not capturing it. They live in the outdoors and don't think twice about it. In addition, it is about being independent, self-reliant, and not depending on anyone else and being yourself, living your own life, and not conforming to other life styles.
MOVEMENT:
Slave Narratives
~PARADOXES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT~
DOCUMENT:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is taken place in 1818–1841, and is about his account of being a slave, and how he escaped to educate himself, but then later was captured again and lost his motivation to become independent again. Douglass does not know exactly every detail of who he is, and somethings are a little bit unclear.
THEME:
Racism
QUOTE:
"The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from hearing my master say some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old" (1008-1011).
MOVEMENT:
Gothic Literature
~PARADOXES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT~
DOCUMENT:
The Fall of the House of Usher is about an unnamed narrator that talks about a house that he/she stumbled upon that does not have the best atmosphere of. This house is dark and down, doesn't have any character or life to it, and just isn't a good overall environment.
QUOTE
: "I know not how it was-- but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible" (749).
THEME
: Perception
MOVEMENT:
Realism
~REGIONAL FICTION, "LOCAL COLOR," AND AMERICAN REALISM~ 
DOCUMENT:
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman took place in the late nineteenth century, and is about the narrator who is unnamed, talks about the house her and her husband live in, which has some funky wallpaper in the bedroom, which the narrator sees as some type of figure.
THEME:
Self-Expression
QUOTE:
"I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. So I will let it alone and talk about the house" (512).
MOVEMENT:
Enlightenment
~PARADOXES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT~
DOCUMENT:
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson (August 2, 1776)
THEME:
Freedom
QUOTE:
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."
~PARADOXES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT~
DOCUMENT:
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
QUOTE
: "By referring the matter from argument to arms, a new era for politics is struck-- a new method of thinking hath arisen."
QUOTE EXPLAINED:
This document was based upon the Enlightenment, as it clearly is shown in the tone of the writing. Written by author Thomas Paine, he wrote this in a time where he knew people could think for themselves, and not always base it off of the government, or as so he calls it "Common Sense." Paine gives people a new way of thinking, and how it expands life and all that it has to offer much more.
My opinion on this quote is how Paine made people more educated and more individualized on a subject of matter that he found to be significant.
MOVEMENT:
Realism
~REGIONAL FICTION, “LOCAL COLOR,” AND AMERICA~
SHORT-STORY:
Daisy Miller: A Study
THEME:
Respect
"In Geneva, as he had been perfectly aware, a young man was not at liberty to speak to a young unmarried lady except under certain rarely-occurring conditions..." (346).
My opinion on this quote is how I liked how it was mainly about respect, and the different conditions there was to do certain things, as it shows a sign of respect for an individual.
MOVEMENT:
Enlightenment
~PARADOXES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT~
WRITING:
Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
QUOTE:
"...Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expence of supplying by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave?"
Quote Explained: This quote taking from Thomas Jefferson's writing is talking on the subject of Enlightenment. By asking a question like Jefferson did, it educates others into thinking differently from what is the typical thing, not including blacks in everything. Jefferson clearly states the idea or suggestion of incorporating blacks into the state, which comes with benefits added onto that as well.
MOVEMENT:
Modernism
~ THE AMERICAN SELF AND HIGH MODERNISM~
BOOK:
The New Negro by Alan Locke
QUOTE:
"For the younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the mass, and under the very eyes of the professional observers is transforming what has been a perennial problem into the progressive phases of contemporary Negro life."
QUOTE EXPLAINED:
Written by author Alan Locke, this book is based upon the movement of Modernism and what it is all about. Locke wanted to make it clear that there were problems in this world that had to be changed, that had to be expressed, but in a new way. Locke states that there has been problems for way too long, problems that have left a huge impact on the Negro life. Alan Locke expressed in a new, a more modern way, of how the problems must be stopped and resolved.
~THE AMERICAN SELF AND HIGH MODERNISM~
ESSAY:
How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
QUOTE:
"I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong. Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How
can
any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
QUOTE EXPLAINED:
Talking in the subject of Modernism, in this essay Hurston talks about how she doesn't feel the need to be or act any different when she is discrimanted because she is colored. She knows her worth and who she is as an individual, and knows nothing can stop her. She speaks in a more modern tone throughout the essay, hence the Modernism movement, because it has always been the case that colored people get looked upon to be different, and to be discriminated by others. She speaks to say that it does not make her angry, but more so shocked and taken back how people can say things and act the way they do.
My opinion on this quote from Hurston's essay is how I am just as astonished as she was, still to this day we look back and cannot fathom the fact that discrimination took place, and it was that severe. This quote to me shows that Hurston is a independent woman, who knows her value and will always stand up for herself if need be.
MOVEMENT:
Contemporary
~THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SELF & HAUNTINGS OF THE PAST~
SHORT-STORY:
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
QUOTE:
"But I did not think 'she's pregnant,' until she began to look like other pregnant women, her shirt pulling and the white tops of her black pants showing."
QUOTE EXPLAINED:
In this story we see the movement of Contemporary portrayed by author Maxine Hong Kingston. Just by this quote Kingston made it known that society is sometimes judgmental and there are stereotypes. Given when it is said "until she began to look like other pregnant women..." that is an example of people just grouping other people together, not necessarily in a bad way, but society has viewpoints and perspectives on the people in this world.
Gothic style
Class and manners, innocence, the way of speaking (language)
