Essential Questions

Essential Questions

1. How are the Romantics' beliefs of optimism and individualism reflected in their writing?

Romantic writers always write with such passion and they freely write without any rules. They wrote with more of an imagination, creativity, and hope for something better.

2. What is Romanticism, Gothic Romanticism and Southern Gothic Romanticism? How are they similar how are they different?

Romanticism: is a movement in the 18th and 19th century in England and was mainly based on individuals and focus more on just their thoughts and actions.

Gothic Romanticism: is based primarily in the 18th century, in England. It is a Subgenre of Romanticism with horror and romance.

Southern Gothic Romanticism: is a subgenre of Gothic Fiction, it has main features of freakishness, imprisonment, violence, and sense of place. Also Southern Gothic Fiction is based in the American South.

These genres are all similar for one obvious reason which is their all based on some sort of romance. Another ways is they are all subgenres of each other, Southern Gothic Romanticism is a subgenre of Gothic Romanticism which is a subgenre of Romanticism.

Some differences of the genres are they are all based in a different location for instinct Southern Gothic Romanticism takes place in the south.

 

3.How is the Southern Gothic movement a response to literary movements that have preceded it as well as a manipulation of Romantic literary conventions?

Southern Gothic Romanticism is based on the styles of the south, and the people that live there. It is written the way that the Southern people would talk and see things.

 

4.How did the American culture prompt the dark sides of Romanticism (think Gothic and Southern Gothic)?

Many events that happen throughout Americans history affect the way the author write their stories. Such as Southern Gothic Romanticism writers, they most write about slaves and wars because Southern Gothic Romanticism is based in the south when slavery was a great deal.

 

5. How do the writings of these time periods influence the writings of today? 

These writings still have an influence in todays writings because all authors look back on how people used to write and they base their writings off of them.