Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The focus of this paper is to discuss the romantic elements as well as the character of Heathcliff being a Byronic hero in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The major characteristics of Romanticism that can be taken from the reading of Wuthering Heights are the use of love of nature, passion and love, identity and the supernatural or possibility of. Nature plays a large role in the romanticism of Wuthering Heights. There is a clash of the elements throughout the novel in the form of storm(s) and calm both physically and between characters. The striving for transcendence.
In contrast to this, Rosenblum’s article explores the perception of war from the view of the solider and the tension between “Romantic militarism” and liberalism. Talmon’s chapter makes connections to many romantic themes by relating events to the dominant forces or ideas at work in the era—such as the French and the Industrial Revolution. And finally, Coleridge’s poem reveals the influence of the French Revolution upon British Romanticism. Portraying nature as a spiritual gateway, he utilizes the natural world as an escape from his fears of a potential invasion in England. In each of these
J.S.P Tatlock tackled the question of whether the middle ages were romantic or rationalistic, explaining that the two coexisted in society at that time. Tatlock attempted to describe the relationship between romanticism and rationalism in the middle ages by explaining that “romancers in general did not seek to heighten the marvelous which they inherited, but rather to explain it, and to make of it memorable embodiment of the principles of conduct which they esteemed” (Tatlock 297). In this statement Tatlock is explaining that the romanticism that is evident from this time period is misinterpreted by today's society. The emotional, romantic side of the Middle Ages, is all that society today chooses to look at, is a clouded perception because in truth romanticism was just as present in the Middle Ages as rationalism was. Tatlock suggests that the Middle Ages were both romantic and rationalistic allowing for a connection between the logic and emotion involved.
In the Preface to the 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth said that poetry should be the “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” The poets, painters and writers of the Romantic era reflect this in many ways. Their progressive thinking, revolutionary action, dramatic anti-establishment artistry and outspoken spontaneity often led them to criticize the aristocratic and political climate of the Age of Enlightenment. They also tended to have a strong disapproval for the scientific rationalization of nature. The Romantics influence was not only on literature, its movement spread throughout the artistic community of Europe and the world causing new developments in the fields of Philosophy, Social Science, Sculpture, Paintings, Music, and much more. In 1822 Jan Vaclav Vorisek published the first impromptu piano piece under the title “Impromptu.” The influence of this piece of music would cause a wave to spread through the way in which composers thought and felt.
To pull-together some semblance of a wholly defining character of the Romantic period treads quite near an exercise in futility. For what in one moment appears to be a truly defining characteristic of Romanticism, such as the Romantic exaltation of imagination, is in another moment not true for the entire Romantic Movement as cynically evidenced by the movement’s “iconic romantic hero par excellence” - Lord Byron - in his emphatic disqualification of himself possessing Romanticism’s fashionably essential quality of imagination (Blanning 162). For this exact reason, Romanticism has been understood, and even more frequently misunderstood, as a movement of contradictions, as simultaneously creating a revolutionary and conservative shift in the prevailing realistic sensibilities of the late 18th and early 19th century. Yet, an enigmatic cohesiveness of ideals clearly exists in this movement, a cohesiveness that not only shaped the character of Romanticism; it elevated Romanticism to that of the divine. Primarily, the Romantic Movement’s cohesiveness shaped as a counter to the dissecting and materialistic reason, which the Enlightenment brought to Western society.
Concern for the well-being of others, encouragement of emotions, and awareness of the world became a cultural movement in the arts (MindEdge, Inc., 2014). The era of Romanticism was a reforming movement, it has been described as an encompassing movement to include the practicality of thinking encouraged by earlier periods but also encourage the irrationality that strong emotion could bring (Heath, 2005) A1 Describe the style and characteristics 2) The Romanticism period preached authenticity, integrity and spontaneity. It was “artistic and intellectual assertion of the extremes in the human psyche” and eschewed earlier period’s beliefs that reason and logic were the only true ways to understanding (Heath, 2005). No one style prevailed, except artistic license. The unrestrained and expressive brushwork combined with the radiant colors conveyed the individuality, strong emotions and passions in the portrayals of nature and human subjects alike (MindEdge, Inc., 2014).
The Romantic Period was a time of revolutionary thinking and great shifts in established paradigms and ideologies. This shift was captured by philosophers and poets of the time, notably Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The intensity and the power of nature is glorified through Romantic texts, as the poets strive to return to the natural world of God’s workings. Nature is perceived as the source of emotion and ideas, contrasted with the emerging industrialised world, in which emotion and the individual were oppressed. Romantic poetry reflects the ideology of Pantheism, where the forces of nature are displayed as a manifestation of God, both brutal and life-giving.
Anna Karenina Relationship Essay The reality of love is that it is both inevitable and unpredictable. The sensation of infatuation is bound to occur in an individual’s mind at some point in his or her existence, but used rashly or carelessly, love can evolve into a perilous force that can cause torment and destruction in a person’s life. The ability to harness love between a couple cannot be mastered. However, the broad view of affection has been categorized into classifications, separating different levels of love into groups. These classifications compound to create a theory of love that was developed by Robert Sternberg.
Many consider Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” to be a precursor to the modernist tradition in literature. Although not completely modernist in its approach, the text introduces certain new aspects in response to the realist tradition. The Novella uses the adventure story narrative, impressionism, linguistic ambiguity, delayed decoding, imperialistic discourse etc. in its narrative. Conrad’s use of the frame narrative provides multiple perspectives to the text.
In both poems ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’ and ‘Summer Farm by Norman MacCaig’, the author makes a dominant connection between the natural world and mankind by addressing the importance of digging down to your roots, finding your own identity through it and also focusing on how nature alters to fit with your emotional state. In ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’, it concentrates on idea that wherever you come from, you carry a sense of that place in your mind. By trying to convey this message and create the effect of a nostalgic poem, the author had used many techniques such as sibilance, similes, alliteration and metaphors. On the other hand, in ‘Summer Farm by Norman MacCaig’, the author’s central idea is to get across the message that the natural world is created according to the emotions of man. The author tries to put across his thoughts through using techniques such as juxtaposition, introspective perception, recursion, rhyme, assonance and alliteration.