Sunday 20 March 2011

Romantics vs. Realists

The Romantic writers differ with the Realist writers in many different ways. The most significant difference is both their beliefs and writing style. The Romantic writers belief that people can find beauty and truth in exotic locales, the supernatural realm, and the inner world of the imagination. Romantic writers write in a style that idealizes things, because they think that there are already too much pain and sadness in the world. The Realist writers believed that people should “stay real”; they reject the idealized, larger-than-life hero of Romantic literature. The avoid writing about heroes or people from nature (Romantic hero), they focus more on writing about people from cities and lower classes. I think the Romantic movement kind of acted as a propaganda for war, people were filled with emotion and were determined to fight heroically, they thought that the war is holy and magnificent. Instead, the war turned out to be horrible, and many people died. I think the Realism movement was created because people think it’s better to “stay real”.

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