Analyzation of the Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine was a turning point in American history and an even more significant document in overall world history. This is so because a fledgling nation makes a defiant staunch regarding its sovereignty and its statement that it will defend its hard earned independence. In world history, it protects the Western Hemisphere from greedy Europeans powers and gives way for the United States to expand. When colonies of European powers begin to dissent and eventually revolt, European allies may not step in and help their brethern with the balance of power. It also prevents wars like the Seven Years' War from repeating. The Seven Years' War is a very excellent example of what happened when European messes spilled over into its colonies.

Analyzation of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

HARD TIMES by Charles Dickens displays the concerns of a literary age effectively and effortlessly. The socialist ideologies of the time call for the workers and "lower orders" to unite, revolt, and overtake the oppressors. Dickens' story, especially this excerpt, seems to downplay the power that the oppressed really have. It makes fun of the Rationalist obsession with facts and logical reasoning. It shows the dirty side of industrial revolution and progress, and tries to downplay the awful, cold world that the working class is forced to accept. We learn of the large gaps between the proletariats and the bourgeoisie. And yet it moves on to know that here are these two men trying to cope with the hard times.

Analyzation of Painting- Liberty at the Barricades by Eugene Delacroix

Liberty at the Barricades

Eugene Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix was inspired by the events of the 28th of July 1830. On this day, French revolts force King Charles X to step down and hand the throne to Louis Philipe.

At first glance, one does not pay attention to the people that surround Liberty, or even the bodies she is stepping on. What one does notice is the looking glance in her face, boldly proclaiming "Are you with me, or not?" After learning about what took place on this day, one can see the symbolism everywhere, from the bottom to the top.

If one knew the Romantics and the ideologies of the time, one could interpret liberty's exposed bosom to represent sexual freedom. The bodies of the dead are actually soldiers, which could mean the fall of the monarchy. We see the bourgeoisie and the proletarians working together- the bourgeoisie smartly dressed while the working people (artisans and urban poor) hold onto swords and pistols. Examining closely just who is holding the pistol, one notices that it is a young boy. This could symbolically mean that the fight for freedom is a cause that MALES of any age should be willing to subscribe to. Moving the eye to Lady Liberty once again and oticing at her feet is a particularly desperate-looking solider. If it could be claimed that the bodies of the dead soldiers alluded to the fall of the monarchy, then maybe this soldier, who looks like he is going to take down Liberty and kill her, is the monarchy's last ditch effort to stamp out any revolutionary ideas of freedom and liberty. The background hints of the cannons blasting in the night sky, making this writer think that morning will bring victory and a new world for a new day. Liberty is leading the people to a new way of thinking, victorious or not.

Analyzation of Document 1- Ozymandias by Percy Shelley

OZYMANDIAS BY P. SHELLEY
I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert....Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away."

ANALYZATION OF THE POEM
In the poem, one can markedly notice the despair and loss of hope that many Romanticists feel. It is found in the words; words like "vast" and "colossal Wreck" along with the lines "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/ Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,/ Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies..." begin to exude emotion of isolation and desolation. It was not hard to feel those emotions during this time of rapid industrialization and scientific rationality.
Machines make work easier. Ask any science teacher, and they will tell you that the purpose of a tool or machine is to make work easier. With the boom of technological advances, producing manufactured goods became easy and cheap. No longer were skilled workers needed to make a product. Machines and lines of assembly people who were not necessairily skilled put together a product. Eventually machines took the place of those people who were running the machines. It sort of takes away the value of hard work and skills to do a particular job. The knowledge that a machine can do better work even while producing is belittling, taking away humans' natural notion of being on top.
The Rationalist movement aimed to make things clinical and methodized; its goal was to know what the world around us was, to gather the knowledge of the universe and to completely know what it was. Sad to say, it took the emotion out of everything, making it lifeless; it is not unlike man going to the moon.
Humans have always looked with wonder and longing at that particular celestial body, finding inspiration with what it could be and the limitless possiblities of what was on it. "Man on the moon", "Woman in the sky", and "Cheese ball" are just a few names that many over the centuries have referred to it as. Yet, the day that man went to the moon and walked its rocky plains and craters, the moon became nothing more than a barren body that encircles us.
Returning to the Romantics, this sudden void of emotion along with the technological development of the day made for a very despairing and morbid group. As a reaction, Shelley and other Romantic co-conspirators vowed to feel more and to enjoy the natural pleasures of life.