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The movement began towards the beginning of the 18th century to the late 19th century in Europe. The early period of the Romantic Era was a time of war, with the French Revolution (1789–1799) followed by the Napoleonic Wars until 1815. These wars, along with the political and social turmoil that went along with them, served as the background for Romanticism. It is speculated that the movement emerged because of the Industrial Revolution. Romanticism was used as a tool of rebellion, because of the great abuse of the common people during the time period.
Emotion rather than Reason
The romantic temperament responds to emotion rather than reason, is excited by mystery rather than persuaded by clarity, listens more intently to the individual conscience than to the demands of society, and prefers rebellion to acceptance.
One of the more important pieces of literature during the Romanticism movement was The Sorrows of Young Werther written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is a story of a passionate, doomed love affair between a poet and a married woman. In the end due to his unrequited love he kills himself. Young Werther's almost morbid introspection, heightened by extreme sensibility and made irresistibly convincing by Goethe's genius, captures the mood of a young generation increasingly inclined to a romantic view of the world. It is praised as one of the greatest and most successful novels of its time. Napoleon Bonaparte declares it as the great work of European literature. The novel changed a generations ideas of love, making passionate love over traditional more appealing, and telling the reader it is noble to follow the desires of your heart.
a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual
My Thesis: The Romanic Era or the Romantic period was a movement of the arts, intellectual growth and new creations in literature, it created many changes in the art world.
One of the defining works of art of the Romanticism movement was the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. This painting commemorates the July revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. There is a woman depicted personifying the concept of freedom and the goddess of Liberty. She leads the people forward, over the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution which is their flag to this day, in one hand and a musket in the other, this woman was a symbol of freedom and victory for the French people.
War
Revolutions
Oppressive leadership etc.
Emotion based
Nature held at high importance
the idea that civilization has made us ''sick''
desire to escape reality