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Baroque Literature

Baroque Literature. Cervantes. Don Quixote First novel Insane older man “tilts at windmills” and seeks Dulcinea Is he mad or does it matter?. Don Quixote. Don Quixote had specific rules to live by: Look the best in people. Be courteous to all women. Be just to all men.

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Baroque Literature

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  1. Baroque Literature

  2. Cervantes • Don Quixote • First novel • Insane older man “tilts at windmills” and seeks Dulcinea • Is he mad or does it matter?

  3. Don Quixote • Don Quixote had specific rules to live by: • Look the best in people. • Be courteous to all women. • Be just to all men. • Live for the future, not the past. • Love people as they ought to be, not as they are.

  4. Hobbes

  5. Thomas Hobbes • The Leviathan • "The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material, and what is not material is not real." --The Leviathan • Social contract theory • All life sucks eggs without one strong, autocratic ruler. • No God

  6. John Locke • Two Treatises of Government • Opposite viewpoint from Hobbes • Mankind good • Will of the people • Tabula Rasa– Blank slate

  7. Tabula Rasa • Nature v. nurture • Hobbes believed that people were born bad and stayed that way. • Locke believed people were born neither good nor bad, but were blank slates to be determined by their upbringing. How would these two theories change your perspective on life?

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