Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” of the French Revolution. Address the key elements of their disagreement with the Declaration.
Please write an answer to each of the two questions below. The suggested lengths for your answers are intended only as guidelines.
Do not use any other sources than those assigned for the course.
1. Edmund Burke and Karl Marx all rejected the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” of the French Revolution. Address the key elements of their disagreement with the Declaration. Of the two, which do you find most persuasive? (2 pages/600 words)
2. Lynn Hunt attributes immense importance to the novel in bringing about a change in Europeans’ views of rights. Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (New York: Norton, 2007). ISBN 978- 0393331998
A. What is her argument, and do you accept it?
B. Evaluate Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Hannah More’s “Slavery: A Poem” as tests of her thesis. In other words, do you think a novel such as Hard Times might have changed the way people think or feel about rights, and if so how? (4 pages/1200 words). Charles Dickens: Hard Times
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