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ROMANTICISM (VALUED (NATURE (For Romantics, Nature is a religious…

- - - - The Romantic looks at the irrational aspects of reality
        
        Interested in the humble and ignorant
  - - - Is seen as a substitute for traditional religion
    - - Romantics feel a mix of fascination and fear for the unknown / the mysterious
    - - a vehicle for self-consciousness: Nature allows people to discover what they truly are
    - - A counter part for the spiritual corruption of modern society
  - - - They put passion and spontaneity before anything else but they are killed by their own feelings
        
        At the end of the love story written by Goethe, "Sorrows(4) of Young Werther", because of his feelings about a married lady, the protagonist kills himself: he can't take it anymore (5)
  - - - Revival of the Middle-Ages
        
        Neo-Gothic architecture: Pugin defended the Medieval-style
        
        Copies the forms of Gothic
        
        Regularity of the forms
        
        Every capital and spire is identical (unlike Gothic, when they were all different, respecting the asymmetry of nature)
        
        It recalled a time before the country became obsessed by money, industralisation and technology
        
        Ruins are a testimony of the past, better than the present
        
        Revisitation of medieval stories and legends
    - - a kind of attraction for the exotic, the savage
      - An example was the French impressionist Gauguin
        
        He moved to Thaiti (in the Pacific Ocean(14)) because he wanted to find a more real, savage and uncivilised environment
  - - - The subjective and irrational part of human nature
      - The rebel, the outcast
      - passion, spontaneity & feelings
    - - Word adopted by Baudelaire in 1863
      - someone who is not busy and spends his time experiencing life
      - In UK is used the word "stroller" (13)
  - - - He represents someone who doesn't follow society's rules, so he's uncorrupted
        
        The same principle applies to the savage
    - - He isn't somebody that must be educated, on the contrary, he must be copied
- - - - He preferred to die rather than following the rules, so in 1770 he killed himself
        
        EMBLEM OF THE DOOMED ARTIST
        
        someone who will have a terrible ending
        
        Sensitive artist who is rejected by our cruel word
        
        Secularised version of a Christ-like figure
        
        Like Goethe's protagonist in The Sorrows of Young Werther
  - - - He saw nature everywhere
        
        for him Nature has the powers of God
      - Man is inside the Nature
        
        Man can't be separated from Nature
        
        Wordsworth wasn't interested in Nature's beauty but in the feelings he felt when he experienced it
    - - he encouraged the idea of people to go to Lake District
        
        He was the first to have the idea of natural parks to save the beauty of that place from industrialisation