Critical analysis card Student read critically and attentively the following short articles: The Importance of Studying History and the classics of English Literature. Following they have to complete the critical analysis card. Finally, students have to get ready to have an academic debate based on their reading of the short articles. Written by: Diana Yolanda Roldan Garcia Theme: _The romantics nature/ liberty Basic concepts Critical reflection (300 words’ paragraph) Denis Diderot Jeanjacques Rousseau Romantic revolution Freedom and liberty for the individual Encyclopedia God English Romantic poets Natural state Revolutionary ideas New generation Nature The video starts talking about one of the greatest revolutions in humanity, all this took place in France in 1742, when two philosophers named Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with different beliefs but something united them. Diderot was convinced that the future would be built on reason and the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsión. These men believed the system of control in France to be inhuman both were preaching freedom and liberty for the individual they were playing a dangerous game by overriding the order and tax system maintained by the state for its citizens.Rousseau had experienced a vision that would become the single most important inspiration of the English Romantic poets he had seen that emotion could unlock the prison of civilized society for him the key to freedom lay in ndividual will and feeling. Old regimes of Europe would never accept the revolutionary ideas of Diderot and Rousseau only a new generation could put them into practice in a new world. Thomas Paine was one of many new Americans who reacted strongly and violently to the imposition of taxes upon them by their English laws and rulers. The second video talks about nature, where he explains the historical change of Great Britain, where all the artists were inspired and it was a dramatic change. A group of poets and novelists pioneered an alternative way of living and of looking at the world, among them were William Wordsworth Mary Shelley and William Blake. This is the story of man's escape from the shackles of Commerce and Industry to the freedom of nature because in the 18th century Britain was being devoured by the voracious demands of urbanization towns were turning into cities this was the age of Industry and of manufacture. Freedom Industry Urbanization Conclusion: (150 words’ paragraph) In my point of view I believe that revolutions throughout time have arisen from several factors, and one of them is change, which often seems to be something to fear for the high institutions that govern humanity, these philosophers wanted to demonstrate the freedom that man possesses and not only physical, if not of thought, to be able to take action for ourselves. As well as other philosophers who were part of this little change for the English literature and society, as one of the events of Thomas Paine was the declaration of independence, another event that was the change to have no king, no aristocracy and no national church, in search of a free nation, where exist equal all men have an equal right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness this was the beginning of modern democracy and it was a clarion call for revolution in Europe.
