1. Enlightenment Ideas Spread
5.2 Notes
Enlightenment Ideas Spread

2. New Ideas Challenge Society
Previously, people believed in the following:
Divine right
Strict class system
Belief in heavenly reward for earthly suffering
Not everyone agreed with replacing these ideas, but the enlightenment changes everything

3. Writers face censorship
Censorship-ban or burning of books
Some writers will use fictional stories to get their point across
Montesquieu-The Persian Letters
Voltaire- Candide

4. Salons
Social gatherings to exchange ideas
Madame Geoffrin

5. Art and Literature
During the rule of Louis XIV-architecture was Roman or Greek and paintings were baroque
During Louis XV rococo art was light and elegant
Pastels were used and portraits were of nobles and their happy servants.

6. Art of the Enlightenment

7. Composers Classical music Ballets and operas
Middle class could afford these concerts
Musical figures of the Enlightenment:
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frederick Handel
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

8. Novels Daniel Defoe-Robinson Crusoe Samuel Richardson-Pamela
Pamela used a series of letters
Jonathan Swift-Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels uses satire as a literary device. Does anyone know what satire means?

9. Satire A literary device that exposes human weaknesses or social evils
Satire may use exaggeration,
wit, irony, or humor to make its point.
Satire may serve to entertain, to instruct, or to reform or bring about action

10. Satire
Satire is used in many works of literature to show foolishness or vice in humans, organizations, or even governments - it uses sarcasm, ridicule, or irony. For example, satire is often used to effect political or social change, or to prevent it.

11. Examples “Weekend Update” from Saturday Night Live The Daily Show
The movie Scary Movie
The movies of Austin Powers
Most political cartoons in newspapers and magazines
The songs of Weird Al Yankovic

12. Movie clip

13. Political Cartoons-Satire

18. SNL clip of Satire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDqSvJ6aHc

19. Despots
Enlightened despots were absolute rulers that accepted new ideas
What would the opposite of despots be?

20. Frederick II Frederick the Great Allowed free press Ban torture
Reform Prussian government
Tolerated religious differences

21. Create a web I want you to create a web over pgs. 189-193
Include how the ideas of this time spread and the forms in which it spread
Include important people and their role in the Age of Reason