Today in our exciting English Literature class, we began the class by reviewing the important distinction between mood and tone. Mood is the feeling of the reader created by the text (mainly using adjectives), while tone is the author's projection of the story (mainly using adverbs). After we made that important distinction, we continued onto the lesson of romantic absolutism. Romantic absolutism is the radical view of a perfectly good side, and a perfectly "bad" side, with no spectrum in between. Once we continued our notes on this subject, we then analyzed "Tell-Tale Heart" with "Rip Van Winkle" to identify the absolutism within the readings, as well as characteristics of Romanticism. Eventually, we came to the conclusion that "Tell-Tale Heart" is very geared specifically towards the characteristics of feeling over intuition, and shuns the artificiality of society, while "Rip Van Winkle" also seeks to find natural beauty, and more evidently finds beauty and truth in exotic locales.
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