Enlightenment period is also called age of…
The age of reason
Why is the enlightenment period happen
Intellectual movement, traditional authority questioned and rethought, scientific discoveries
Why the is it called the georgian period.
Because the georgian period spans over 4 generation of kings all named George
(Key Idea & Contexts) Fall of absolute monarchy
American Revolution, French Revolution
(Key Idea & Contexts) Seperation of Powers
Balanced distrubtion of power, Secularism (Seperation between church and state or just bring religion out of government)
(Key Idea & Contexts) Liberty and Individual Rights
Newspaper & Satirical prints
(Key Idea & Contexts) Free Market & Capitalism
Adam smith, Europian colonalism, Transatlantic slave trade
What is Satirical prints
Using humor to comment on societal issues
What Literary Genre were born during this Period
Novel (Fantasy, Entirely fictional)
What’s an essay on man about
An Essay on Man is about humanity’s place in the universe, the limits of human understanding, and the need to trust in God’s divine order
True message behind an essay on man?
articulates the tension between self-love and reason within human nature, suggesting that harmony arises when both forces work in accord
Who wrote an essay on man
Alexander Pope
What are some famous “novel”
Gulliver’s Travel
