Similarities Between The Enlightenment And Fed The Growth Of Romanticism

A person does not really understand someone until he or she walks in his or her shoes. Scout learns through encounters with several people. The first person’s shoes that Scout steps in is Miss Caroline’s. When Scout first meet Miss Caroline, she thought of her new teacher as terse and not understanding. The first event that made Scout think this is when Miss Caroline prohibited her to read with her father any longer. Miss Caroline talk her to tell Atticus to stop teaching her to read because she wants Scout to learn to read in school with a fresh mind. Another time that fueled Scouts perception of Miss Caroline is when she tried to explain to Miss Caroline why Walter Cunningham would not take the money to buy lunch. Miss Caroline was getting

Romanticism is an artistic revolt that originated in Europe in the 18th century. It rejected the rationalism, logical thinking, and societal norms associated with the Age of Enlightenment. Rather, it embraced ideals that came out of the French Revolution. The works of art focused on promoting free-thinking and provoking feeling from its viewers. To further explain Romanticism, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire once wrote that "romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in way of feeling." Various paintings throughout the 18th and 19th century helped to define this time in art history. During the Romanticism era, it was through the emphasis on emotion, freedom, and the everyday life that the Romantic principles of the sublime and the picturesque were expressed.

History has had a tremendous effect on everything we believe, know, and love in today’s society, and this will continue on forever. The past has a way of manifesting a long lasting effect on society, beliefs, culture, music, and many other important aspects of life. Two time periods that exemplify this are the Enlightenment and the Romantic Period. The Romantic period is the Hegelian antithesis to the ideals of the Enlightenment in a number of ways, and both have managed to equally impact the world. The Enlightenment took place from 1685 to about 1815, and is referred to as the “Age of Reason”. The Enlightenment is known for its intellectual and scientific progress. The Romantic Period took place just as the Enlightenment ended, and then diminished around 1850. This time period is well known for the transformation of poetry, ballet, paintings, music, and all other forms of the arts.

To the Romantics, the imagination was important. It was the core and foundation of everything they thought about, believed in, and even they way they perceived God itself. The leaders of the Romantic Movement were undoubtedly Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his close friend, William Wordsworth. Both were poets, and both wrote about the imagination. Wordsworth usually wrote about those close to nature, and therefore, in the minds of the Romantics, deeper into the imagination than the ordinary man. Coleridge, however, was to write about the supernatural, how nature extended past the depth of the rational mind.

Symbolism helps create meaning and emotion in a story. In the novel, Lord of the Flies the author William Golding conveys many of his themes and main ideas through symbolic objects and characters. The theme of civilization is very important by showing the order and leadership of the kids on the island in a time and place when they need it. The conch shell in the novel symbolizes the law and order on the island. The fragility of civilization is suggested by having a fragile shell.

Enlightenment is a signifier for the action or state of obtaining or having obtained spiritual knowledge or insight. Although the specifics of the signified change slightly dependent upon time, place, and person, enlightenment of this type is a concept present in many different civilizations. Plato's The Republic is once such work that deals with the idea of enlightening an uninformed population, particularly in the image of the cave. The image of the cave was central to the Honors Lecture on The Republic that was given by Dr. Michael Palmer.

A counterculture to the Enlightenment, Romanticist artists and philosophers believed in the innocence of man, namely the child, and the poison society creates. Romanticists yearned for more personal freedoms than the Enlightenment offered. They also disliked many of the changes the Enlightenment was bringing, namely the Industrial revolution and the realism that was flooding the arts. Romanticist artists counteracted this by creating works showing the darker side of the enlightenment, and society as a whole. These works would also depict the better sides of the world, particularly nature, in many iconic landscapes.

Just as I mentioned first in the previous reading response, both Romanticism and Realistism responded to the enlightenent in a good way. These artists did not affirm or critique the ideas projected by the enlightenment instead they modified those believes and used them to their advantages. I personally admired the realistic artistics that where either criticize or monked for painting an artwork as they saw it through their days. One of the realistic painter known as Gustave Courbet said, “I have never seen an angle. Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one”. This means that he never painted anything that he or others did not see or had an experience with.1111111111111111111111111

Their arts simply depicted the emotional side of them and portrayed an even stronger belief they had in Romanticism. Romanticism dealt with the depiction of nature, like flowers, lilies, tulips and beautiful objects in nature similar to them. The enlightenment thinkers didn’t really value the existence of nature. That can be seen through the flourishing idea of the Industrial Revolution, which promoted the concept of machinery usage and that destroyed nature. Romantics stressed their importance of life and nature.

The Romantic Period centered on creative imagination, nature, mythology, symbolism, feelings and intuition, freedom from laws, impulsiveness, simplistic language, personal experiences, democracy, and liberty, significant in various art forms including poetry. The development of the self and self-awareness became a major theme as the Romantic Period was seen as an unpredictable release of artistic energy, new found confidence, and creative power found in the writings of the Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, who made a substantial impact on the world of poetry. Two of the Romantic poets, William Blake, and Percy Bysshe Shelley rebelled against convention and authority in search of personal, political and artistic freedom. Blake and Shelley attempted to liberate the subjugated people through the contrary state of human existence prevalent throughout their writings, including Blake’s “The Chimney Sweepers,” from “Songs of Innocence”, “London,” from “Songs of Experience” and Shelley’s A Song: “Men of England.”

During the Romantic period, which began in the late 18th Century, and ended in the early 20th century, there were many political changes, such as the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, repression and reform, pre-industrial economic changes. There were also many changes throughout literature and culture during this time. Poetry during this time often had strong themes of nature, internalization, subjectivity, and imagination. Three highly influential poets who were also often characterized as poets of the Imagination are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake. Imagination is important to romantic poets because it was used as a healing tool for the writers’ troubles, using reason and emotion to relate to and participate in the world around them.

Ideologies of the Enlightenment heavily influenced the inspiration for the French Revolution that started in 1789, following the Enlightenment was intellectual movement of Romanticism. These two movement contrasted against each, the Enlightenment being the “age of reason” and Romanticism a counter movement of sensation and nature. Regardless of the differences between the movements, there was common ground in thinking about representations of the body and mind and how they worked together. The Enlightenment’s scientific view of neurology and the Romantic’s perception of the mind and body grapple with each other in Romanticism's emphasis on feelings, sensations and emotions are reflected and seen in emerging theories surrounding brain functions

Writing about the beauty of nature and the simple life was how romantic artists rebelled against the industrial

For the Romantics, the soul is the center of a person, not the mind as as the scientists of the previous movement thought, the Enlightenment. Romantics sought to tap into this soul through intuition and imagination. They felt that doing so was more natural and, as such, better than the contrivances of scientific pursuit in man placed himself in a position beyond his nature and often his ken.

Romanticism can be used to describe a time period when poets, painters, essayists and composers increasingly came to view nature itself as the greatest teacher (Sayre 177). Romantic artist believed that the past Classical values of dominance were over. Romanticism believed by a new way of living one where emotion and feeling can into play. Romantics had a very deep and passionate feeling for the beauty of nature and how it corresponds to life. The emotion of the new view of an individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures in romanticism (Britannica). I feel that people felt a time of relief when painting they did not need to feel like they were subject to a certain