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Neoclassicism


represented a reaction against the passionate and enthusiastic renaissance view of man as being basically good and possessed of an endless potential for religious and intellectual growth.
Neoclassical theorists, by contrast, saw man as an imperfect being, inherently sinful, whose potential was limited. They replaced the renaissance emphasis on the imagination, on invention, experimentation, and with an emphasis on order, reason, on common sense, on religious, political and economic reaction. They maintained that man himself was the most appropriate subject of art, and saw art itself as essentially valuable because it was somehow useful and as something which was properly intellectual ...

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system was prevalent and prominent. We come to know about this from the story "Tartuffe" where Orgon displays his higher authority over Dorine. Such a system is still existent in most parts of the world but in a subtler manner for example the Caste system that exists in countries like India which were prominent earlier but are being eradicated from society. The class system still exists today but in the minds of people due to differences in social status, wealth and power. Another example would be where person with higher power like a politician can get away with
misdemeanor where as a layman cannot.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth century authors such as Moliere and Voltaire had to alter parts of their stories in order to please the king because if the stories criticized the royal community the circulation of the story would be stopped and the author would be punished. But in today's world there is lot more freedom one can express ones thoughts freely and openly but even ...

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