In 18th century in English Literature,
we have seen two movements so far. The first one is Rationalism and the second
one is Romanticism which has reaction against the former.
Rationalism was born against the
increasing vice and immorality of humans in 18th century. People, I think, acted so impulsively without thinking any
moral or feeling any shyness in those years that people needed to tend to
different areas. They did not care about individual feelings and they disregarded
any kind of emotions. They thought that these feelings cannot not be tested. On
the other hand, everything that we would talk about must share common senses. Puperstitions
and prejudices only causes suffering. Only humans can discover and think. Why
don’t we use our special gift from God? But as every society has met, of course
there were people who were against that movement.
The other movement was Romanticism.
Their ideas were that people have emotions and we cannot ignore this truth. We, as
humans, cannot switch off our feelings. They were opposed to overpowering
seeking of Rationalists. They wanted to change the idea of reason into the idea
of feelings, imaginations, senses. According
to them, feelings are more important than reason. They reflect feelings of
people against even casual facts on their works. They give great importance to
the human rights, freedom and individualism.
Actually, I am in favor of Romanticism.
Of course the reason very important for humans but that works do not adress to
all human in a society. Only very few people who interest in can understand but
the others cannot. Hovewer, when we talk about individual feelings and
imaginations, there is always an open door for people to interpret. As everyone
has feelings, everyone can like those kind of literature works.
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