1. Restoration and the 18th Century
The “Turbulent Time’s” up cycle

2. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) practically invented the modern realistic novel
There are seven groups of English Society
The Great, who live profusely.
The Rich, who live very plentifully.
The Middle Sort, who live well.
The Working Trades, who labor hard, but feel no want.
The Country People, Farmers, etc., who fare indifferently
The Poor, that fare hard.
The Miserable, that really pinch and suffer want
What does this tell you about the society of the time period?
Is this societal description transcendent?

3. Clearly labels were important
How is this seen in the quarelle de femes?

4. Review What Monarch had his head chopped off?
Charles I
Who took over the government after this monarch?
Oliver Cromwell
Who succeeded the “Lord Protector” and re-established the monarchy in 1660?
Charles II

5. Historical and Literary connections
How did Milton use his society as inspiration for Paradise Lost?

6. A Clash of Styles ORNATE PLAIN
Cavaliers—supported Charles I and were opposed by the Puritans
Dressed elegantly, ate with gusto, attended the theater, lived a high life
PLAIN
Dressed and ate plainly, thought the theater was wicked, lived God-fearing, yet somewhat dull lives
Established a church dictatorship in England under Cromwell

7. Royal Inheritance Reestablished 1660
“Lord Protector” Cromwell

8. Cromwell & Puritans Cromwell established a religious dictatorship.
Puritanical reign
Puritans fled at the death of Cromwell…to escape persecution of the newly established Monarchy
To the “new world” (1658)
—what happens in Salem?

9. Using at least 1 of your new vocabulary words…
Explain how this picture is a parody.
What is it mocking?
What change is it calling for?
The Original

10. The 18th Century
There were many closer heirs to Anne, but they were all Catholic; As a result, George’s reign was questioned by the Catholics; deposing was attempted and failed.

11. Upset Tired Disillusioned
Why would all these historical changes and events inspire people to use satire?
Upset
Tired
Disillusioned

12. More Trouble & Change
After 20 years of civil war, the English people were wary and exhausted
By 1700…
Plague that claimed many—including Queen Mary
Fire (2/3 of Londoners are homeless)
1775—colonies rebelled against British Rule and won their freedom
July 4, 1776 “Nothing happened today”—George III
Calm finally emerges toward the end and the British Military is rested
Colonies established around the globe

13. Label me?
“The Augustan Age, The Neoclassical period, The Enlightenment, The Age of Reason”
All apply to some, none apply to all

14. Augustan & Neoclassical Age
Comparisons to Rome “Augustus” (63 BC- 14AD) restored peace after death of Caesar
Restoration of the King, England likened itself to Augustan Rome
A period of calm after a period of turmoil
Literature and arts fashion themselves after the Latin Classics and Latin Classics are more well known than contemporary or English works

15. Reason and Enlightenment
Asking How?
In Macbeth they noticed the unnatural lack of sunlight—why did this happen? They ask. They did not ask HOW…
If they did—how could science explain it?
Advance in science as a result

16. Ironically
While people were being enlightened they were also being repressed
Religion determined politics
Reestablished Anglican church “official religion” of country to this day
Outlaw of Puritan and Independent sects (caused much of the uproar during the previous years)
Persecution ensues

17. Pouring into North America
What were they seeking?
Freedom from turbulence—political and religious
The “dream”—making money and increasing their standing in by selling and trading furs, tobacco, logs and slaves.

18. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) practically invented the modern realistic novel
There are seven groups of English Society
The Great, who live profusely.
The Rich, who live very plentifully.
The Middle Sort, who live well.
The Working Trades, who labor hard, but feel no want.
The Country People, Farmers, etc., who fare indifferently
The Poor, that fare hard.
The Miserable, that really pinch and suffer want

19. Age of Satire The Age of Pope
Attacks on immorality and Bad Taste
Alexander Pope ( ) & Jonathan Swift ( )

20. “An Essay on Man” and “The Rape of the Lock”
Alexander Pope 1711;

21. Who is Pope? Brilliant Satirist—writes in verse Physical Problems:
Tuberculosis of the bone, or Pott’s disease, Pope stood only about four and a half feet tall
Roman Catholic family : Persecuted minority.
King James II ousted1688: English Catholics could not legally vote, hold office, attend a university, or live within ten miles of London.
What would this kind of repression lead to?

22. Scriblerus Club Purpose: to ridicule “false tastes in learning.”
Members included: Swift and Pope!
Wined, dined, and joked with one another
Probably inspired Swift’s masterwork Gulliver’s Travels
For example, when Pope read aloud to the group his revised version of The Rape of the Lock, one member, Thomas Parnell, humorously objected that Pope had stolen a passage from an old manuscript. Parnell even pretended to produce this manuscript, which was really his own translation of Pope’s English into bad Latin.

23. “An Essay on Man” Purpose: caution against intellectual pride
To Teach?
To Persuade?
To Entertain?
To inform?

24. “An Essay on Man” Means: describing the uncertain “middle state”
Heroic Couplets

25. Heroic Couplets page 522-523 Couplet: 2 rhymed lines
Triplet: 3 rhymed lines
Iambic pentameter: 5 iambs (unstressed; stressed)
Closed: thought expressed in a complete sentence
With your partner complete number 2-3 on page 523 after reading all the heroic couplets.

26. “An Essay on Man” By way of: Antithesis: contrasting opposites
Now complete number 6 on page 523 with your partner.

27. “An Essay on Man” page 524 Interpretation
Man should NOT study
God
Man should study
Man
What is man struggling with?
Born but to die means?
Reasoning but to err? Does this support rationis capax?
How can one be Lord and prey?
What connection can you make to the idea that man is “The glory, jest, and riddle of the world?

28. “An Essay on Man” page 524 Antithesis
Skeptic’s side; stoic’s pride
Act; rest
Born; die
Reasoning; err
Abused; disabuse
Half to rise; half to fall
Lord of all things; prey to all
Truth; error

29. Pope’s Satire Rape of the Lock Mock epic based on true events
Petre family and the Fermor family dispute over a lock of hair is spun into a fantastical adventure tale

30. Mock Epic
A Long, humorous narrative poem that treats a trivial subject in the grand style of a true epic like Homer’s Iliad or Milton’s Paradise Lost.
For example, in The Rape of the Lock, Pope applies to the theft of a lady’s lock of hair such epic elements as these:
Boasting speeches of heroes and heroines
Elaborate descriptions of warriors and their weapons
Involvement of gods and goddesses in the action
Epic similes, or elaborate comparisons in the style of Homer that sometimes use the words like, as, or so
Antithesis—placing side by side, and in similar grammatical structures, strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas.

31. Pope’s Form Heroic Couplet: Epic elements
2 rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter
“closed” if they represent a complete sentence.
Epic elements
Boasting speeches of heroes and heroines
Elaborate descriptions of warriors and their weapons
Involvement of gods and goddesses in the action
Epic similes, or elaborate comparisons in the style of Homer that sometimes use the words like, as, or so