Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
Compare some of America’s contemporary film and TV heroes to those of the Romantics. How is what we value today different from or similar to the values of the past?
Although the term “Romanticism” encompasses a broad movement in history and the arts, in our own time the term “romantic” is primarily used to refer to love. Why?
The “Byronic personality” is usually configured as one who leads an extraordinary lifestyle and experiences an operatic demise. Has contemporary culture produced any individuals who fit this description?
