According to the Anselm Website, there are three basic theses to Romanticism: 1) "The universe is a single unified whole." 2) "The universe is full of values, tendencies, and life." 3) Reason, objectivity, and analysis radically falsify reality by breaking it up into disconnected lifeless entities." The idea that the world is a "single unified whole" and that things are connected to each other is not entirely new: these ideas are written about in the Vedas (ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit). The second thesis suggests that the universe has a mind of its own and that it is not limited to material rules. Perhaps one of the reasons that Frankenstein's creature is endowed with emotions and a self is to illustrate the idea that man is more than just a rational animal. The third thesis implies that in order to arrive at any meaningful understanding of the universe and reality, we must not exclude our subjective experiences as part of the whole.
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/rom.htm
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This was very good.
ReplyDeleteDon't sugar code it. This blows. It failed to recognize the basic tenetc of romanticism:Subjectivity, divinity, and reaction of the that which is irrational.
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