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media type="custom" key="3462242" Romanticism Video, Enjoy.

Screenplay: For our video, we are planning on doing a short skit/ discussion on romantisicm. One of our ideas for a skit is to have a man(one of us) walking through the woods and asking nature for answers to his problems in his life. or, we may end up doing a small discussion regarding all the ideas and theories of the romantic period. We also, will be putting togeather some artists, and writers form the Romantic period, and will be discussing both sides of Romanticism, which icludes the dark side, and the light side. An example of adark Romantic writer would be Edgar Allan Poe, and an example of a light Romantic writer would be Emerson. We will also inlcude some clips in youtube either about the lifes of the writers, or just about some ideas of Romanticism.

Research:

Introduction to Romanticism: General Overview
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was somewhat a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of __nature__, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. Nature is the main focus of Romanticism, as is everything being peace, and being one with nature. The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of __aesthetic__ experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and awe. Romanticism reached beyond the rational and __Classicist ideal models__ to bring upon medievalism and elements of art, in an attempt to escape population growth, urban sprawl and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar and distant in modes more authentic than chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape. There were many influences on Romanticism, such as the ideologies and events of the French Revolution which laid the background from which Romanticism emerged. Also, the confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their influence on Romanticism. "Realism" was the opposite to Romanticism. The idea of Romanticism is what it perceived as misunderstood heroic individuals and artists that altered society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority which presented freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a __zeitgeist__, which is an representation of its ideas.

The Gothic Romance was a time and art, that showed great emotion and part of a dark age. The first was Horace Walpole's //Castle of Otranto// (1765), set in a haunted castle and containing various mysterious apparitions such as a gigantic mailed fist. This sort of thing was popularized by writer Ann Radcliffe and M. L. Lewis. Religion was one of the most complex times of this movement. Since the normal traditional art was apposed with the new gothic period of art work. There were many contridictions to sort out and the church didnt feel lke dealing with it. Enlightenment had weakened, but hardly uprooted, established religion in Europe. Religion was estheticized, and writers felt free to draw on Biblical themes with the same freedom as their predecessors had drawn on classical mythology, and with as little reverence.