Sunday, August 18, 2019
Comparing Individuality and Transcendence in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and
Individuality and Transcendence in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Joyce             The development of the scientific method started a revolution in thought      that changed how people viewed the world. Scientists tested theories by      creating experiments and carefully observing the results. The importance      of scientific discoveries raised questions about the role of the observer.      According to Ralph Koster, the importance of observation in science led to      the rise of the individual and an awareness of subjectivity. Society      realized that the individual could determine the outcome of an experiment      and that people could interpret events differently depending on prior      experience.       In addition to changing the role of the individual, science also changed      people's views on religion. By contemplating experimental results,      scientists created rules for how the universe operated. Nature became a      knowable force that scientists described in a logical collection of laws.      Thus, science took away much of the world's mystery and changed how people      viewed God. If the universe operated by rules, it wasn't necessary for God      to be involved every moment. God became a clockmaker who started the      universe and sat back to let it run.       The rise of individuality and changing views on religion resulted in      insecurity and isolation. Before the Romantic era, achieving oneness was      often thought of as an act of grace given in mysterious moments. God was      ineffable, but just. Because science encouraged the clockmaker view of ... ...nity. He embraces it all in a unique      vision. Amazingly, in this total embrace, he recovers mystery lost in      modern civilization.        Works Cited       Joyce, James. "The Dead." The Norton Anthology English Literature. Ed.      M.H. Abrams. New York: WW Norton, 2000. 2240-68.       Koster, Ralph. "Seeking the Beyond" 29 March 3003.      http://www.legendmud.org/Ralph/papers/transcendence.html       Wordsworth, William. "Preface to Lyrical Ballads." The Norton Anthology      English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. New York: WW Norton, 2000. 238-50       Wordsworth, William. "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey." The      Norton Anthology English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. New York: WW Norton,      2000. 235-237.     Â
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