1. What would be the modern-day salon? What would be the main topics regarding morality, politics, science, and religion? How would today?s conversations be alike and/or different than those of the Enlightenment?
2. Compare and contrast the revolutions of the late 18th Century with more modern ?revolutions? ? fall of the Berlin Wall, fall of apartheid in South Africa, the Arab Spring in Egypt. Consider the background of oppression, the
genesis of the uprisings, and the results.
3. How could the rise of industrialism, Darwinism, and Romanticism all spring from the same era?
4. Who is today?s ?Romantic Hero?? What are the traits and why does this person match them?
