Marx, Engels, & Shelly
...om from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. In 1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth wrote a manifesto of the “new poetry” to call poets to abandon Greek and Roman models and instead express their emotional response to nature The significance is it affected all forms of entertainment including poetry, novels, and plays. It also helped some of the bourgeoisie to look at the world in a different light. 3. Liberalism as an economic and political philosophy implies the absence of government constraints that could interfere with the development of the individual. It was a philosophy for the working class in a time of the bourgeois. Liberals for the most part believed in a “Laissez-fare” economy. The working class was the leaders of liberalism. The significance of liberalism was it was not like socialism in 19th century Europe that thought all people should be equal, but was a belief in a self-made man and upward mobility. Liberals were high on reform and progress. They wanted individual rights and believed in the idea of hard work. Part III The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and the Condition of the Working Class in England by Frederick Engels had very similar themes while Frankenstein by Mary Shelly was much more a book about contrasts. The main theme of Engels work was to show the working class/proletariat their place in society. He was hoping to show them how they were being taken advantage of so they might try to change it. The Communist Manifesto was what Karl Marx thought was a blueprint for the future as how the proletariat will rise up and over through the bourgeoisie and their oppression. He saw it as just a matter of time before the capitalist societies of Europe would fail. In contrast Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein was study of society from a view of the opposites: light vs. dark, good vs. evil, nature vs. man, family vs. isolation, ect. Marx and Engels wrote about work in different ways but almost the same meaning. Marx viewed work as a bourgeoisie institution that kept you blind to the fact that you weren’t getting anywhere. Engels thought as the workers as slaves that the middle class are just using as c...