Main Themes - Romanticism and Realism

Main Themes

The main themes in this story are Romanticism and Realism

I found two definitions

• The fist one describes Romanticism like this:

• Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

• Romanticism was marked by emphasis on originality and individuality, personal emotional expression, and freedom and experimentation of form. 51361npl26vxh2o

• Webster defines Romanticism as:

1. Consisting of or resembling a romance

2. Having no basis in fact : IMAGINARY

3. Impractical in conception or plan : VISIONARY px361n1526vxxh

4. a: marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized b: often capitalized of, relating to, or having the characteristic of Romanticism c: of or relating to music of the 19^th century characterized by an emphasis on subjective emotional qualities and freedom or form; d: also of relating to a composer of this music

5. a: having an inclination for romance: responsive to the appeal of what is idealized, heroic, or adventurous

• Realism is:

• Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances

• Realism usually stemmed either form artists` desire to present more honest, searching, and unidealized views of everyday life or from their attempts to use art as a vehicle for social and political criticism

• Realism`s emphasis on detachment, objectivity, and accurate observation, its lucid but restrained criticism of social environment and mores, and the humane understanding that underlay its moral judgments

• Realism from Webster:

1. Concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary

2. a: a doctrine that universals exist outside the mind; specifically: the conception that an abstract term names an independent and unitary reality b: the conception that objects of sense perception or cognition exist idependently of the mind – compare NOMINALISM

3. fidelity in art and literature to nature or real life and to accurate representation without idealization

I enjoyed reading this book. It was pretty easy to understand and there were a lot of poems which I liked very much. I would also recommend everybody to read this book just for fun.