1. Name:- Gohil Hetalba I
Roll no:- 08
M.A. – 1st Sem -2
Paper no :- 6 (The
Victorian Literature)
Topic :- Hebraism and
Hellenism in Culture
and Anarchy
Submitted to :- Dr.Dilip
Barad
Department Of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University
Year – 2012-2013

2. Critical work Poetical work
Practical work

4. Hebraism
 Intellect
 Strictness
 Conscience and
Spontaneity
 Mr.Sidgwick’s points

5. Arnold and God
 Arnold has come to the defence of Culture and says-
“ No man,
Who knows nothing else ,
knows even his Bible! ”

6. Hellenism
 “ What we want , is a fuller harmonious
development of our humanity ,a free play of
thought upon our routine notions ,spontaneity
of consciousness, sweetness and light .”
 Arnold exhorts his country men against the
diseased spirit of cultivated inacting .

7.  Difference
 Aim of Hebraism and Hellenism
 Hellenism is thinking clearly .
 Hebraism thinks of the original sin of Man .
 Hebraism is a great movement of Christianity , whereas
Hellenism is a great movement of Renaissance .
 Arnold thinks that as Hellenism is of Indo European growth ,
Hebraism is of Semitic growth .
 Socrates says –
“ The best man is he who most tries to
perfect himself and the happiest man is he who most feels that
he is perfecting himself .”