Stage 1

Neoclassisim

Massachusetts state house:

This is the state house of Massachusetts. It is in a neoclassic style but more specifically the federal style. It has a copper dome that was painted gray at first to appear as stone, now it is back to copper as architectural styles have evolved.

Romanticism

Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is a romantic work. It is very emotional and covers depression.

Realism

Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis. It is one of the earliest American realist works. It talks about women and machinization.

Stage 2

Massachusetts state house

The Massachusetts state house fits the organized, contained side of the Chaotic, uncontrollable <-> organized, contained paradigm. The classical influence made it very stately. It was designed for the law which governs the organization of society. It was meant to keep out chaos for the new government for Massachusetts. It is also federal style as a government building which plays in to the organized, contained part of the paradigm. It is meant to be a bastion of government control, efficiency and operation.

Bartleby the Scrivener

As a romantic work, Bartleby the Scrivener is intuitive instead of rational. It follows the Scriveners office who follows the new hire of Bartleby and his descent into depression and desolation because he state that he "would prefer not to" do the work assigned to him. Instead of the rational thing which would be to just do the work for himself to stay afloat, instead he intuitively knows he does not want to do it and so doesn't. He moves in to the office and stays even after the office moves to which he is then imprisoned. He then 

Life in the Iron Mills

Nurturerant earth/female <-> the machine. Women who work in the workforce vs. machines who take over. Women are subjected to machine and industry labor taking away their livelihood. Industrialization made their lives much more difficult. They have to struggle against machines displacing them.