Choose and answer three (3) of the following five (5) essays. Be sure to answer the question posed and see to it that your response is legible. (Double Spaced, 2 Pages per essay.)

– Discuss Moliere’s treatment of religious hypocrisy in his drama Tartuffe and how it reflects the values of the Enlightenment. What do the various characters represent?

– Explain Pope’s concept of the “Great Chain of Being” and how Pope is critical of man’s self-centered view of the world. How does Pope’s “Essay” present the Enlightenment’s optimism and religious philosophy?

– What is the meaning of “theodicy” and how does Leibniz treat this concept in his treatise of the same name?

– Discuss the main characteristics of Romanticism and how they are reflected in the poems of Wordsworth and Keats.

– What are the ‘intimations of immortality’ in Wordsworth’s poem “Ode on Intimations of Immortality” and what are the corresponding notions in Keats’ poem “To Autumn?”

Identify five (5) of the following six (6) quotations. Indicate the author, title and briefly explain the significance of the passage.
(3-5 Sentences)

I may be pious but I’m human too:
With your celestial charms before his eyes,
A man has not the power to be wise.
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Ah Brother, please,
Let’s not descend to such indignities.
Leave the poor wretch to his unhappy fate …
And rather hope that he will soon embrace an honest piety..
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Know, Nature’s children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our lifes Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting..
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E.  God Permitted evel in order to bring about good
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F.  Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird.
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night,
In ancient days…