COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Document Links:

Document 24-1: Eugenics Education Society of London, Eugenics for Citizens: Aim of Eugenics

Document 24-2: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

Document 24-3: Émile Zola, “J’accuse!”

Document 24-4: Emmeline Pankhurst, Speech from the Dock

Document 24-5: Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden Editorial from The San Francisco Call

Document 24-6: Heinrich von Treitschke, Place of Warfare in the StateHenri Massis and Alfred de Tarde, The Young People of Today

  1. What might contemporary readers have found unsettling about the idea that women should have the right to vote or that dreams could reveal one’s innermost desires? How do both ideas represent a blurring of traditional boundaries between public and private life?

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    What might contemporary readers have found unsettling about the idea that women should have the right to vote or that dreams could reveal one’s innermost desires? How do both ideas represent a blurring of traditional boundaries between public and private life?
  2. In the opening paragraphs of his letter, Zola mocks militant nationalism as part of his call for a return to a government based on honesty, tolerance, and the rule of law. Based on the attitudes of the Parisian students surveyed in the 1912 opinion poll, do you think that in the long run the French government heeded his call?

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    In the opening paragraphs of his letter, Zola mocks militant nationalism as part of his call for a return to a government based on honesty, tolerance, and the rule of law. Based on the attitudes of the Parisian students surveyed in the 1912 opinion poll, do you think that in the long run the French government heeded his call?
  3. How did Treitschke’s and Kipling’s attitudes toward imperialism overlap? Why did the San Francisco Call’s editorial challenge such views? What does this suggest about the perils of imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century?

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    How did Treitschke’s and Kipling’s attitudes toward imperialism overlap? Why did the San Francisco Call’s editorial challenge such views? What does this suggest about the perils of imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century?
  4. In what ways do the documents in this chapter challenge such liberal political values as equal citizenship, tolerance, and the rule of law?

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    In what ways do the documents in this chapter challenge such liberal political values as equal citizenship, tolerance, and the rule of law?