Historical Cultural and Author Works Themes Motifs Symbols Main Point of Literar

Period Literary Characters view y

context Genre
Renaissance William 154 Sonnets 1.The flight of time 1. Art versus 1. flowers The
1485-1649 Renaissance Shakespeare 1593-1594 2. the immortality of time/art’s and trees speaker Shakespere Poetry
Baroque 1564-1616 (published in art struggle to 2. Stars (voice of an sonnet
1509) 3. Love: different overcome 3. Weather the is different Figures
types of love time and sonnets) from the of
Sonnets 18 4. The dangers of 2. Stopping seasons The Young Petrarchan speech
dedicated to a lust and love the march Man (s 1- sonnet; :
young man 5. The responsibility towards 126) It is made similes,
(love/immortality of being beautiful death/childr The Dark up of 3 metap
of art) 6. Real beauty versus en as an Lady (127- quatrains hors,
Sonnet 130 to a clichéd beauty antidote to 150) and a personi
woman (love, death rhymed fication
parody, mocks 3. the couplet. (pathet
the Petrarchan significance –uses the ic
sonnet) of sight Iambic fallacy)
pentameter
(five pairs
of
unstressed/
stressed
syllables)

37 plays 1.Love (different 1. Light and 1.Poison Romeo Traged

Romeo and Juliet types of love)/The darkness 2.Queen Juliet y
1595 forcefulness of love 2. Opposite Maab Mercutio
2. Love as a cause of points of Friar
violence view Lawrence
3. The individual 3. Nighttime The Nurse
versus society
4. Identity
5. Fate
6. Sex
7. Violence
8. Youth
9. Meaning of
Gender
 10. Value and
doubleness

1.Love’s difficulty 1. Contrast 1. Theseus Theseus Comed

Midsummer 2. Magic and Puck y
Night’s Dream 3. Dreams Hypollita Titania
1600 2. The Love Oberon
Potion Hermia
3.The Helena
Craftsmen’ Demetrius
s Play Bottom
Actors

Hamlet 1.The impossibility of 1. Incest and 1. Yorrick’s Hamlet Reveng

1603 certainty incestuous skull stands Claudius e
2. The complexity of desire for death’s Gertrude Traged
action 2. Misoginy inevitability Ophelia y
3. The mystery of 3. Ears and and the
death hearing disintegrati
4. The nation as a on of the
diseased body body
5. Performance
6. Madness
7. Doubt
Macbeth 1.The corrupting 1.Hallucinati 1.Blood – Macbeth Traged
1608 power of unchecked ons stands for Lady y in the
ambition 2. Violence the guilt Macbeth Greek
2. The relationship 3. Prophecy 2. The Banquo style
between cruelty and weather – Macduff
masculinity chaos The Three
3. The difference brought by Witches
between kingship murder
and tyranny 3. The
4. Order/Chaos three
5. Guilt witches-
6. Children stand for
evil
The Puritan Enlightenmen Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1.The ambivalence of 1.Counting 1. The Robinson C 1st person Novel
Restoration t/Neoclassicis 1719 mastery and footprint Friday narrative
and m 2.The necessity of measuring 2. The The
Augustan repentance 2. Eating cross Portuguese
Age 3. The importance of 3. Ordeals at 3. Crusoe’s Captain
1650-1800 self-awareness sea Bower

Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels 1.Might versus right 1. Excrement 1.Lilliputian Lemuel 1st person Novel
Swift 1726 2.The individual 2. Foreign s Gulliver narrative-
versus society Languages 2.Brobding unreliable
3.The limits of human 3.Clothing nagians narrator
understanding 3.Laputans
4.Houyhnh
nms
5. England
The Romanticism John Keats 1.Ode on a 1. The conflict 1. Beauty 1.The Poetry:
Romantic 1795-1821 Grecian Urn between the real 2.Death Grecian urn 1&2
Age 1818 world of suffering, 3. Nature – perfect Ode
1776-1837 2.Ode to a death and decay and never 3.
Nightingale the ideal world of changing Sonnet
3.When I have beauty, imagination world of 5.
fear and youth. art Ballad.
4.To Autumn 2.love 2. The
5. La Belle Dame 3.nature and seasons night sky –
sans Merci 1819 symbol of
artistic
inspiration
3. autumn
–maturity
and
plenitude
Jane Austen Pride and 1.Love 1. Courtship 1. 1.Elizabeth Third Novel
1775-1817 Prejudice 2.Reputation 2. Journeys Pemberley Bennet person of
1813 3.Class 2. omniscient manne
Fitzwilliam rs
Darcy
3. Jane B.
and Charles
Bingley
 4. Mr
Bennet
5. Mrs
Bennet

The Post Dark Edgar Allan The Tell-tale 1. Love and hate 1. The eye 1. Animals 1.Unamed First person Short
Revolution Romanticism Poe (1809- heart 2. Madness 2. The sound narrator narrative story
Period /Gothic 1849) 1843 3.The Power of the of beating 2. Old man Detecti
(American Dead over the Living heart ve and
Literature) horror
story

REALISM Charles
THE NATURALISM Dickens
VICTORIAN AESTHETICIS
AGE MDECADENC
1837-1901 E

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