Lectures on the Philosophy of History Literary Elements

Lectures on the Philosophy of History Literary Elements

Genre

Historical lectures

Setting and Context

Context of historical studies

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Informative, fascinating

Protagonist and Antagonist

The principal character of the story is the narrator

Major Conflict

The major conflict in the study of original history is that it lacks first-person assessment.

Climax

The climax is when Hegel concludes that philosophical history is the most realistic because it contains the historian’s opinions, feelings and intentions.

Foreshadowing

Reflective history foreshadows biasness.

Understatement

The contents of the original history are understated. For instance, the reader concludes that it lacks first-person assessment, but it is the most reliable.

Allusions

The story alludes to historical study backgrounds.

Imagery

The images of the East, West and God’s eye depict sight to readers.

Paradox

The approach to empiricism is entirely satirical.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between reflective history philosophical history because of the possibility of biases.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The discourse on freedom is a metonymy for the author’s confidence in articulating his historical facts.

Personification

N/A

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