Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period1. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas.2. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classic
