The Four Literary Eras

For my project about the four literary eras I chose to do a family tree. I choose to do this because family has great impact on our lives. Our ancestors set up our beliefs and we challenge them to create new boundaries for our children. We want to better the world every day. One of the most powerful ways to push the boundaries is through literature. Since the beginning of time literature is how we have kept track of historical events. It is how we have encouraged others to make a difference. Literature is how we impact the world. There is a substantial number of outstanding authors that have impacted our lives so greatly. The four you will read about you may not know that they have set up our fundamental beliefs and drove us to make the changes

Romanticism emphasized on emotion and individualism. One of the best authors of mystery was Mary Shelley. Mary is more famously known for her work Frankenstein. Before Mary's publishes when she was seventeen and known as Mary Wollstonecraft, she was rebellious and started an affair with her father's acquaintance. Whom she then ran away with alongside her step sister and traveled Europe. Only after returning home due to no money she soon found herself pregnant and alone while her lover was with his wife or out with Mary's step sister. Sadly, the love child was born premature and died a few weeks after its birth. Only one of the three children she would have lived to see the new era of Realism and

In this time, they wrote about situations based on what was going on.it drew attention to the horrible standards of the life of the people during these years. Mark Twain was an outstanding author who wrote the best works of literature. A few of his most famous works are; The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Life on the Mississippi, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Mark Twains' real name was Samuel Clemens. Samuel had four children of his own, but many looked at him as a grandfather figure due to his Aquarium Club. Which was where he would be a grandfather figure to little girls between the ages of 10-16. The girls were known as Anel Fish. Now a day, this would be an outrageous scandal even though it was full of innocents. The Aquarium Club was a wonderful thing created by a wonderful