UNIT IV: The Romantic Heroine

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Final Webquest assignment

A. Issues

1. Underdog as hero- Common man
2. Hubris as destructive
3. Suffering to gain insight
4. Search for spiritual value
5. Women as Man's salvation
6. God and Justice

B. Literature

1.Goethe-"Faust" or "Jane Eyre" - Bronte

Image of Faust and Marguerite
For Delacroix Lithographs got to Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and search Delacroix Faust

         2. William Blake OR Blake Online

C. MusicComposer Archive

1. La Travitata- Verdi, La Boheme- Puccini
2. Also Sprach Zarathustra-Strauss
3. Role of Opera
4. Les Preludes- Liszt
5. Faust Symphony- Listz
6. Death and Transfiguration- Strauss

Term Project- Opera

D. Art

Eugene Delacroix- Mephistopheles Over Wittenberg
Blake "Great Red Dragon," "Pity," "Newton"
Henry Fuseli- The Nightmare, Lady MacBeth,
Turner-" Rain, Steam, and Speed" "Slave Ship" "Fighting Teneraire"



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