Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
Choose a piece of art, literature or music from your own day and time that, in your view, conveys the romantic sensibility and a second one that pursues a heroic theme.
Describe a theatrical or cinematic work of the last two decades that romanticizes a historical event (e.g., Malcolm X, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan). What features (characterization, background music, setting, etc.) contributed to shaping a romantic image?
Can you describe any childhood experience that you have romanticized as you grew older? How does memory work to romanticize experience?
Compare the romantic drama of Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa or Goya’s The Third of May to the Baroque drama of Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of St. Peter or Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes.
Design a romantic opera based on an important historical event of your lifetime.
