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Evening
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Review
 Instructions
● The class will be divided into two groups
● The groups should assign 3 of their members
to draw. The first person of the three assigned
members of each group gets a whiteboard
marker and an illustration board.
● The teacher picks a paper from the hat for
each group to draw and guess.
 Instructions
● The allotted time given is 60 seconds (1 minute).
If the group guesses the word before the time
runs out, they get a point.
● Each group sends up another player for each
round.
● The group with the most number of points wins.
 The
Neoclassical
Period
(1660-1798)
 Objectives
Define the Neoclassical Period and its
A distinguishing parts;

Collaborate and participate in the activities about

B literature in Neoclassical Period; and

Reflect on and derive the mood, idea, or message

C emanating from selected literary works of the
Neoclassical Period.
 The Neoclassical Period
 The prefix 'neo' means 'modern' or 'new,' and
the root word 'classic' represents the ancient
Greek and Roman style.
 Neoclassicism was an art movement that
sought to evoke the style of classical
antiquity in writing, painting, sculpting, and
architecture found in Greek and Roman
culture.
 The Neoclassical Period
 This period goes by the names "the
Enlightenment," "the Age of Reason," and "the
Neo-Classical Age."
 Neoclassical literature was written between
1660 and 1798. This time period is broken
down into three parts: the Restoration period,
the Augustan period, and the Age of
Johnson.
 Three Stages of Neoclassicism
 The Restoration Period (1660-1700) - the reestablishment of
the monarchy in England with the return of Charles II in
1660.
 The Augustan Period (1700-1750) - A period of literary
eminence under the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BCE to 14
CE) during which Virgil, Horace, and Ovid flourished.
 The Age of Johnson (1750-1798)- often referred to as The
Age of Sensibility, is the period of English literature named
after Samuel Johnson.
 Literary Forms
Some popular types of literature include
parody, essays, satire, fables, letters,
melodrama, and rhyming with couplets. While
drama declined and almost disappeared during
the later part of the period.
and Their
Literary
Works
 John Dryden was a famous poet of his
time. His poetry can be divided into
three parts:
• Political Satires
• Doctrinal Poems
• The Fables
The Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day and
John Dryden Alexander’s Feast are his best short
poems. Absalom and Achitophel is his
great allegorical satire.
Absalom and Achitophel
The poem is a satirical critique
of contemporary politics, but
Dryden couches his argument
in a biblical story from the
Book of Samuel.

Themes: Temptation, sin, fall and

punishment
 Absalom and Achitophel
“So easie still it proves in Factious Times,
With publick Zeal to cancel private Crimes:
How safe is Treason, and how sacred ill,
Where none can sin against the Peoples Will:
Where Crowds can wink; and no offence be
known,
Since in anothers guilt they find their own.”
 Alexander Pope was a poet and satirist
of the English Augustan period. Pope
was physically weak because of his
long illness. He was best known for
his poems: An Essay on Criticism
(1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–
14), The Dunciad (1728), and An
Alexander Pope Essay on Man (1733–34).
 The Rape of the Lock
In the Rape of the Lock, the
word "rape" means "to
seize," "to take," or "to
snatch." It refers to how the
Baron seizes Belinda's lock of
hair.

Themes: morality and the development

 The Rape of the Lock
“How vain are all these Glories, all our
Pains,
Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty
gains:
That Men may say, when we the Front-box
grace,
Behold the first in Virtue, as in Face!”
 Daniel Defoe was a novelist,
pamphleteer, and journalist who
gained enduring fame for his novel
Robinson Crusoe (1719). A well-
educated London merchant, he
became an acute economic theorist
and began to write eloquent, witty,
often audacious tracts on public
Daniel Defoe
affairs.
 Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is the hero of Daniel
Defoe's famous 1719 novel that tells the
story of a man cast away on an island in
the Caribbean for 26 years. Defoe based
Crusoe's island on descriptions of the
island of Tobago, a small island off
Trinidad.
Themes: Christianity and Divine Providence,
Society, Individuality, and Isolation, Advice,
Mistakes, and Hindsight, and Contentment vs.
Desire and Ambition
 Jonathan Swift, pseudonym Isaac
Bickerstaff, Anglo-Irish author, who
was the foremost prose satirist in the
English language. Besides the
celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels
(1726), he wrote such shorter works
as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A
Jonathan Swift Modest Proposal” (1729).
 Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story
involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver,
a ship's surgeon, who, due to a series of
mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up
on several unknown islands living with people
and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and
philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is
somehow able to return to his home in
England.
Themes: Perspective, Moral vs. Physical Power,
Society and the State, Knowledge, Truth and
Deception
Major Themes
During
Neoclassical
Period
 Major Themes
During Neoclassical Period
They elevated the role of reason in finding
more answers about the world, which led to
the rise of themes such as skepticism,
rationalism, empiricism, order, deism, and
classicism.
Skepticism: the attitude of doubting knowledge claims set
forth in various areas.
Rationalism: a theory that reason rather than experience is
the foundation of certainty in knowledge.
Empiricism: defined as basing ideas and theories on the
direct experience of the senses, including experimentation,
as opposed to knowledge gained from books.
Order: sought to design political and social order that
reflected natural laws and God's will.
Deism: a belief system that credits God as the original
architect of the universe's natural laws but who does not
currently oversee the events of the world.
Classicism: In the arts, a resurgence of classical ideals like
harmony, realism, and reason inspired the Neoclassical
movement.
 Social and
Political Issues
During the
Neoclassical Period
Major currents: This was a period of
political and military unrest, British naval
supremacy, economic growth, the rise of the
middle class, colonial expansion, the rise of
literacy, the birth of the novel and
periodicals, the invention of marketing, the
rise of the Prime Minister, and social
reforms.
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Travels
Commitment to something greater
than oneself; respect and caring for
others; caring for other living things
and environment; and courage.
 Instructions
● The class will be presented with a topic to
debate
● The class will be divided into two groups a
Proposition and Opposition parties.
● Each side consists of three debaters.
 Was Gulliver’s
optimal to side
Lilliput reasonable?