Genre
Historical lectures
Setting and Context
Context of historical studies
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Informative, fascinating
Protagonist and Antagonist
The principal character of the story is the narrator
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the study of original history is that it lacks first-person assessment.
Climax
The climax is when Hegel concludes that philosophical history is the most realistic because it contains the historian’s opinions, feelings and intentions.
Foreshadowing
Reflective history foreshadows biasness.
Understatement
The contents of the original history are understated. For instance, the reader concludes that it lacks first-person assessment, but it is the most reliable.
Allusions
The story alludes to historical study backgrounds.
Imagery
The images of the East, West and God’s eye depict sight to readers.
Paradox
The approach to empiricism is entirely satirical.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between reflective history philosophical history because of the possibility of biases.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The discourse on freedom is a metonymy for the author’s confidence in articulating his historical facts.
Personification
N/A
