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ROMANTICISM (Late XVIII- Early XIX) (NATURE…
ROMANTICISM
(Late XVIII- Early XIX)
NATURE
Over men
Untumable
Wild
Instrument to criticize progress
PASTORAL
: rural lanscapes clean and unspoiled
IMAGINATION
Not describe the world as it is, but rather as how it could be.
SUBJECTS
Men are not over nature as in the Enlightenment
CHILDHOOD:
exaltation of
innocence
Usually flanked by nature
INDIVUDUALISM:
comes from Shakespeare
PRIMITIVE:
exaltation and idealization of the individuals who live outside of the corrupting influence of modern, industrialized word
EMOTIONS
Nostalgia
Exploration of the dark human side
Solitude
Consequence of the human consciousness
People is more sensitive and thinks more deeply
Love
Happy marriage
Force that can't be controlled
Right to be in love
RELIGION
Considered as beautiful and mystical
EXOTIC
Idealization of the Middle East culture
Life without the pressure of social and cultural conformity
Mysterious and dangerous
GOTHIC
From the Middle Age
Main themes:
wild, fantastic, supernatural, ritualistic, irrational, mystery, gloom and terror.
SUBLIME
Insignificance of human in front of the bigness and the beauty of the nature
Result of two contradictory concepts
Pleasure and wonder
Terror and awe.