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Rationalism
Romantic Hero
Dark Romantics
Romanticism
Transcendentalists
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The belief in reasoning over religious faith or intution
What is rationalism?
100
A young man with a sense of honor not based on society's rules
What is a romantic hero?
100

They experienced conflict between good and evil, psychological effects of sin and guilt, and madness

What are Dark Romantics?

100

The name given to the school of thought that values feelings and intuition over reason.

What is Romanticism?

100

The leader of the Transcendentalists

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

200
This literary movement was a reaction agains Rationalism
What is Romanticism?
200
These people love nature, are young and quest for a higher truth
What is an American romantic hero?
200
Both Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics valued this over logic and reason
What is intuition?
200

Romantics believed they could discover this with their imaginations?

What is truth?

200

Emerson believed we could find God directly here

What is Nature?

300
According to rationalists, this was God's special gift to mankind
What is reason?
300

Eternal truths are waiting to be discovered here

What is the American wilderness?

300
Dark Romantics explore the conflict between
What are good and evil?
300

To the Romantic mind, this was the highest embodiment of imagination.

What is poetry?

300

According to Transcendentalists, everything in the world is a reflection of this

What is the Divine Soul?

400
Rationalists believe they can arrive at this by using reason
What is truth?
400

Exemplified by a real life hero who was worldly, educated, sophisticated and bent on making a place for himself.

What is a rationalist hero?

400
Dark Romantics saw these in all events
What are symbols?
400

Romantic minds often contrasted this with poetry.

What is science?

400

This is the capacity to know things spontaneously and immediately through emotions.

What is intuition?

500
This major event was taking place when Romanticism began
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500

This is the flaw of most American romantic heroes

What is a lack of success with women?

500

Three anti-transcendentalists, also known as dark romantics

Who are Poe, Hawthorne and Melville?

500

Romanticism began here

What is Germany?

500

According to transcendentalists, we are capable of evil because we have separated ourselves from this.

What is God?