19th Century European Literature Multi-Media Project (Update 2)

Our group (Me, Josh and Collin) have been progressing in our project in the past few weeks. We have also altered our research question quite a few times.

First, we decided to focus on romanticism by using Beauty and the Beast and The Phantom of the Opera texts. But then we wanted to concentrate mainly on dark romanticism, since it would contain darker and more interesting elements. However, we realised that both texts are not written in the 19th century, so we had to change our focus to other texts.

In the end, we changed our texts to Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and because these two stories, especially Les Misérables, does not have a lot of dark romanticism elements, we changed our main focus back to just romanticism.

We have already produced a video explaining the Romanticism elements in Les Misérables, and we are currently working on a poster to describe the elements in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. We are hoping to finish this project as soon as possible.

 

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19th Century European Literature

This past week, we have been focusing on European Literature in the 19th century. I am working with Josh and Collin to produce a multi-media presentation.

We have spent the last few weeks studying Romanticism and Realism, and the difference between the two. Romanticism was portrayed very poetically with emotion. Realism was portrayed realistically through literature. In other words, Romanticism is an “artistic perspective of society”, and Realism being an “actual perspective of society”. We also looked at some Romantic poets, such as William Wordsworth, who was an English poet that had written many famous poems.

For the next weeks, we will be using The Hunchback of Notre Dame and possibly Beauty and the Beast and The Phantom of the Opera as our main focus. I am very interested in using these three novels because I remember myself really enjoying the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast and quite liking The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I was a kid.