Developement Of Europe

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as a term of abuse. At this time, during the Reign of Terror in particular, France was moving toward a more republican form of government. During their attempt at the Republic of Virtue Catholicism was a focal point of attack. These attacks ended up fueling divisions that in the end proved to be fatal for the republican government. What some people saw as the future, others disliked and associated it with “modernity.” Hence, the concept of “modernity’s” use as an abusive phrase. However, at the close of the French Revolution, “modernity” took on a new use. In the nineteenth century and beyond, “modernity” became a term associated with good things.
Unlike “modernity,” “modernization” has always been a fairly neutral term. It has always described the processes that actually made the society modern. As mentioned before, a perfect example of this would be industrialization. The best place to see “modernization” is England during the Industrial Revolution. In England during ...

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is embodied by many of the authors and artists of the time. For instance, the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s character of Nora in his play A Doll’s House is the perfect example. Nora’s rejection and leaving of her loveless and oppressive marriage shows the shrugging off of the will of the society in exchange for one’s own happiness. Another good example is the Dutch-born painter Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh’s lack of intense color when painting the bleak outskirts of industrialized cities where often the desperately poor lived showed his emotion and sympathy as opposed to the stark realities of the realism painters. This artistic movement all over Western Europe was the embodiment ...

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