Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, Enlightenment author and greatest comic dramatist of all times Jean-Jaques Rousseau, philosopher, novelist, composer, language and music theorist, and single most important Enlightenment writer Act I SCENE 1. Moliere and Rousseau are up in heaven R: Hey Moliere is that you? M: Yes, may I ask your name again? R: Yeah it’s Rousseau. M: Ah, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you. Sorry, my memory doesn’t always serve me right anymore. R: No, you’ve never met me before. I just remember learning about you back when I was on earth. M: Oh, you’re Rousseau, the Romantic writer, not to mention many other hobbies. Yes I’ve heard about you. Speaking of earth, things are really screwed up nowadays. Have you seen what I’m talking about? R: Yes indeed. As a matter of fact, I was just going to check out the telescopes. M: Oh really, I haven’t been there in a while. R: Yeah, you want to join me? M: Sure, might as well. SCENE 2. Moliere and Rousseau at the telescopes R: There’s a couple right over here we can use. M: What do you want to look at? R: Let’s check out this World Masterpiece class where they’re talking about me right now. M: Sounds good to me. R: I can’t believe that. Out of all of my great literature they picked Confessions to read. That was a piece of crap I wrote just to get a few things off my chest and they’re hailing it as a World Masterpiece? M: Well, at least they’re reading some of your work. R: Whopptie doo! Why don’t they have the students read some of my real masterpieces like The Social Contract or Discourse on Inequality? M: I don’t know, why don’t they? R: Haven’t you read any of my works? M: Sorry, after leaving earth and coming to this paradise, I figured it was best to stay away from anymore earthly influence. R: Well yes, you’ve got a point there. But my point is that students aren’t reading my really good literature, like the two I mentioned earlier, for a reason. M: And what might that be? R: It’s simple, the public school systems are set up and funded(poorly) by the government. Trust me they don’t want every college student reading The Social Contract or Discourse on Inequality. They’d have every supposed “highly educated” person in America trying to overthrow the current and long-standing government. M: Ah, I see quite clearly now. R: Do you really? M: Yes of course, the government, while getting paid by these students to for education, is at the same time choosing very wisely what to teach it’s pupils so as to make them a more ideal citizen and better property of the State.
One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers was John Locke, an English philosopher and physician. His work and ideas had a incomputable impact on modern day society. He was known as “Father of Liberalism” due to his opinions of freedoms and liberty. According to Locke, the people were entitled to have control over themselves as long as it adheres to the law. The Second Treatise on Civil Government by John Voltaire went to prison twice and spent multiple years in exile.
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In Rereading America Michael Moore entitled “Idiot Nation” focuses on the failing educational system in the United States of America. The American nation has decreased in their studies and have lowered their standards, yet America still claims they have their priorities in order, which is education. Moore attempts to persuade his readers that the people who are to blame are lack of education in politics and the budget cuts they are making, however, politics blame teachers for making America decrease in their schooling test scores. Americas have many opportunities and useful tools to be successful; however,
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She begins the chapter by explaining the importance of invisibility in the classroom. “Don’t be too noticeable is the rule” that is commonly known by most students (91). She elaborates by explaining that a student should not add new information into a conversation yet ask a question that would concern all students about upcoming work or tests. Later in the chapter, she highlights that the instructor 's main role in the classroom is “getting [students] to say something” because students felt pressured into remaining silent (94). This pressure came from personal self-doubt and the desire to not be defined as unintelligent. In conclusion to these points, Nathan states that “despite official assertions about the university as a free marketplace of ideas, the classroom doesn’t often work that way in practice” (95). In addition to in class discussions being intellectually weak, conversations outside of class rarely involved academics, but when academics were mentioned, there was a limited set of a few questions like “‘Did you do the reading for today?’ and ‘Did we have anything due today?’” (96). She explains that no students ever asked question about how interesting assignments were because they “weren’t acceptable or normative topics to introduce” while outside the classroom (96). Based on the lack of intellectual discussions in and out of class, Nathan concluded that academics play a minor role in the life of
For the third time today, everyone in the classroom was in a standstill. Eventually, I was greeted with eighteen pair of eyes, which appeared to say, ‘who in the hell do you think you are talking to her like that?’ heck, you would’ve thought I called the girl out of her name with the dirty stares I was receiving.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher that helped develop concepts such as general will, and improved on the early norms on child-raising. Born in Geneva, he was a “citizen” of the city. “Citizens” were the two hundred members of the Grand Council of Geneva, which made most of the political decisions in state. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an important part of the Enlightenment. He led an interesting life, as told by his three memoirs, had a solid philosophy, did not believe in reason, and left a lasting legacy that still affects us today.
17th Century France was spearheaded and administrated by kings owing to its kind of government: absolute monarchy, wherein the king has total control and the power to assign his advisors and other officials that will help him rule the nation. Like most of the countries in Europe on that era, France, with its monarchial regime, was filled with nobilities and aristocrats. The French are rapidly progressing and strengthening their foundation as a nation and due to this fact, they are slowly gaining power and influence all over the world. This era was primed by the utilization of arts and talents, including visual arts, theatre, dance and many literary works. Considering this, France stepped into the age of inspiration and greatness. In fact, this era served as their Golden Age in Literature. Kings and the general public of 17th Century France loved and admired such arts and even patronized and supported it. Salons and academies of literature and arts are now starting to become evident in the French society, by this, literary authors and other artists are prioritized and are given much importance. The expression of philosophies and ideas about arts and knowledge in life are manifest in such salons, in which speakers and actors put an enjoyable and entertaining spice on what they are trying to imply to increase the audience’s interest.
The 17th century of France is considered as the age of reason. This is the period of enlightenment and also the time when people become rational than traditional. During this period, the transition from Renaissance to Classicism happened. This was also the period of the Golden Age of French Literature mainly because literature and arts was given priority by the ruling king.
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