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Hernani Exercise (due by class time on Tuesday. February 25)

(Submit this instead of your weekly letter)

For each word or phrase, determine whether it reflects the tenets/philosophy of Neoclassicism or Romanticism. If you choose “Neoclassicism,” move on to the next example. If you choose “Romanticism,” cite an example from Hernani that corresponds to the prompt. (Note: a few of the “Romanticism” choices have no perfect example – just do your best)

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Gardens of Versailles

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Humans should create beauty on this earth

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Censorship

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

The Quest for Experience

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Plays should be either Tragedies or Comedies

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

The genius poet

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

The most faulty human organ is the mind

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Poetic Justice

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Humanism

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Anti-authoritarianism

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

A duke, a king, and an outlaw lay siege to a woman’s heart, and the outlaw wins

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Poetic Rules

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

We love Shakespeare

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Naturally enlightened characters

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Ghosts are cool

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Anti-materialism

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

“From the depths of your grave imbue my heart with something sublime”

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

French Academy

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Ranks, Professions, Classes, and Genders -- each have their own essence

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

“In loving her, I forget the hatrfed that weighs on me”

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Impulsiveness

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Follow you heart

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

“A while ago, the moon climbed up to the horizon, and as you spoke, your voice and its trembling light pierced my heart. I felt myself joyful and calm – I should have liked to die then”

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Verisimilitude (Likeness to Truth)

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

God is all just, powerful, and omniscient

b. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Freedom

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Light triumphs over Darkness

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Unity of Time, Place, and Action

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Courtly Manners

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Celebration of Reason and Logic

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Sublime and the Grotesque

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Ruins and crypts

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

The noble outlaw

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

“Are you my demon or my angel”

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Democracy

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

The magic moment that stops time

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Midnight meetings and secret passageways

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Restless energy

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Pure calm

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

“Oh, I would blow the trumpet of rebellion throughout the land”

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

“The law never made a great man, but freedom will yield a giant, a colossus

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

No soliloquys (a character speaking alone to her/himself on stage)

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Love over Empire

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

The aristocrat is the real bandit

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Art should reveal life’s moral patterns

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Gothic architecture

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________

Truth lies in the multiplicity of creation

a. Neoclassicism b. Romanticism ______________________________