Essential Questions for this unit

1. In Romanticism writings they show their beliefs of optimism and individualism by how they write. When they are writing they talk about nature and the past and human nature so it makes them write from their own perspective about how they see those certain topics. Also when they talk about the past in the writing they show optimism for the future.
2. Romanticism is writing that talks about nature, human nature, and the past. Gothic Romanticism is writing that is scary and dark and creepy. It has settings like ruins of cities and mansions and the woods etc. Southern Gothic Romanticism has most of the same characteristics that Gothic writing does except it has a character in the writing that gets both sympathy and dislike from the readers. Gothic Fiction is similar also to Romanticism it branches out of that category of writing. Southern Gothic also branches off of both Romanticism and Gothic writing.
3. Southern Gothic writing leaded to the writing that followed because it took a common writing of that time period and changed it to appeal to others than just from where it is at. It showed that writing could be both formal and informal and relate some to the people reading it to make the stories more appealing to read. This also explains how Southern Gothic Romanticism was a manipulation of romantic literacy conventions because it showed writers that you could create writing that was formal and informal and how ever you wanted it to be.
4. It made people start to question what was actually out in the wild beyond what they already knew. It made them wonder if there was actually demons and monsters that no one knew about. When they started to wonder about these demons and monsters that could be anywhere their imagination went wild in their writing and both Southern Gothic and Gothic Romanticism was born.
5. These writings help give many authors ideas for how to shape their writings. Also it helped show that could be more then Non-Fiction and formal or informal that it could come from purely the authors imagination and the unknown.