Essential Questions

Essential Questions For This Unit

The romantics writing really shows its beliefs of optimism and individualism by using emotional and physical things to emphasis their writings. Such as in the song of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" it really using the emotion from the slaves point of view. The slaves had a very lively spirit because they trusted that God was going to protect them. Romanticism is a style of life.

Romanticism is in writings that uses emotion to bring a new way to make the reader get in depth with the writings, not just reading a story, but living the story. Gothic romanticism is a type of romanticism writing. It is more of a horror take on emotions. Such as "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe. He uses emotions to get the reader into the book but then suddenly when you think everything is all happy and such he takes the plot and turns it for the worse. He murders the cat. Using that horror aspect of the story it turns his story into a Gothic Romanticism writing. Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism. It is mostly about the supernatural or ironic unusual events that guide the whole entire story. It mostly originated around the american south. All of these Romanticism are one with each other. They all have the same style of writing which is becoming an individual writer. A writer who goes against the flow. Each one gets more and more specific where when and how it should be written.

 Southern Gothic Romanticism is just a more specific form of the writings that proceeded it. It takes the Romanticism writings that use the readers emotion to establish a mood for the story that is unique and individual. The writings use love, freedom, truth, and beauty to emphasize the ideas that the reader will get.

American culture really made the Gothic and Southern Gothic Romanticism a darker type of literature because everyone during that time was upset with slavery or any other kind of controversy. The writers in turn started feeling these emotions themselves and made the writings that are read today.

The Romantics writings have made today's literature a way of escaping from the real world into a world where anything is possible as long as it is in the story and it has emotion to keep the readers soul in the story.