As Philip stated, the Romantic Movement was sort of like a dissension against the Enlightenment. According to the historyguide Website, “the Romantics attacked the Enlightenment because it blocked the free play of the emotions and creativity.” According to the same website, “The philosophe (French intellectuals) had turned man into a soulless, thinking machine -- a robot.” Perhaps Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a representation of the prevalent ideas of the time, with the “creature” representing the intellectuals in one side and Vincent on the other, or is it the other way around?
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html
Francisco
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