Romantic traits

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Romantic traits

• Look for in poetry in
• Frankenstein

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Romanticism

• Romanticism
• Imagination
• Passion
• Freedom
• Natural
• Spontaneous
• sensitive

• Realism
• Form/Convention
• Reason
• Order/ Norms
• Artificial
• Controlled
• Callous/indifferent

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Personhood

• Rousseaus Natural
• Man
• -Born good, society corrupts
• -close to Nature
• -sensitive
• -privileges passion
• -rebels against social/political order
• -unselfconscious

• John Lockes blank slate
• Born neither good nor bad
• Need examples of moral
• and educational virtue