Age Of Enlightenment Research Paper

The eighteenth century illustrated the Age of Enlightenment, and social change. The enlightenment was the result of scientific revolution because it allowed philosophes to broad their understanding about their functions in the society. One of the philosophes that contributed in the Age of Enlightenment was Voltaire (p. 519). He criticized and attack the religious intolerance. This was the time that women also tried to voice their equal rights in education, economic, and political life like Mary Wollstonecraft when she began to express through her book, The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, the women equality to be educated. Through Enlightenment, the innovations of art, music, and literature continued to flourish. Artists, Musicians, and Writers continued to portray their culture and society through Enlightenment

527-529) that produced various books, inventions, and scientific discoveries. This was the age when people started to accustom the difference between a civilization’s high culture and popular culture (p. 532). Despite philosophes thought and ideas that spread to the society, most people still lived by religious belief like John Wesley (p. 538), who lead a deep spiritual revival in Britain. In the mid-eighteenth century, the transformations of economic, political, and social changed but the old order still remain strong. As illustrated from the image “A Reading of Moliere”, “Ladies Waldegrave”, and “The Aristocratic Way of Life (p.568)”, this images shown the gaps of social order between nobility, townspeople, and peasants. The images displayed the elegance and upper-class way of living of nobility while peasants had to work for their living. At the same time, the population grew that caused an increase in poverty, and change in industry. The unchanged old order formed a tensions in traditional foundations of European society that led to