1. M.K. Bhavnagar university
Department of English
Year-2015-2016
• Name:-ValaAshaT.
• Rollno:-37.
• Paperno:-6(TheVictorianLiterature)
• Topic:-Hellenism and Hebraismincultural
andanarchy..
• EnrolmentNo:-PG15101041
• class:- Sem-2 (M.A.part-1)
• E-mailid:-valaasha10@gmail.com
2.
3. Introduction.
• Cultural and anarchy
is a notorious
philosophical work
written by the
celebrated Victorian
poet and critic
Matthew Arnold. This
essay was first
published in
“Cornhill Magazine”
during 1867-68.
4. This Essay in chapter.
Cultural
and
anarchy
Sweetness
and light
Doing as
one like
Barbarians
,philistines
,populace
Hellenism&
Hebraism
5. View of about Hebraism or
Hellenism.
Hebraism
• Spirit of thought
• Spirit of Bible
• Narrow mindedness
• Religious
• Thought only for God
• Follow the biblical idea.
Hellenism.
• Spirit of mind
• Spirit of Greek
• Open minded
• Knowledge
• Though with practical
• Follow the platonic idea.
6.
7. • Hellenism and Hebraism both are directly
connected to the human life of human
beings.
• Hellenism keeps emphasis knowing or
knowledge where as Hebraism fasten its in
doing.
• He talk about the great idea to know and
great energy to act, both are most patent
forces so, the are called Hebraism and
Hellenism.
8. Knowledge action and strictness
Resulted in science and humanism in Renaissance
Renaissance lost its moral character
16th century stood Hellenism.
9. Supreme idea
Hebraism
• Power of God
• Universe spirit
• Change is bad
• Controlled by God
• Science technology
• God blessing
Hellenism
• Spontaneity of consciousness
• Human oriented
• Change is good
• Each one is new
• Personal
• Achievement
11. Conclusion.
• Hellenism/Greek mindset
• In contrast to the Greek view that the highest
human being experience was knowledge to a
Hebrew scholar like the apostle Paul , moral
beauty and righteousness was the highest
human experience.
• In today common view influenced by Greek
dualism , faith is a mystical, non- rational
thing, not related reason.