Title: Values & Beliefs - Romanticism
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Content: Values & Beliefs - Romanticism


Romanticism was brought as a counter reaction to the Age of Reason by falsifying reality and introducing raw intuition instead of knowledge. The ideas of this era are to enhance society's value through self-reflection and returning to the old ways. Writings during this time portrayed society as filling man with unnatural wants and seducing man away from true self in nature. Romanticists believe that true happiness derives from the spark within one, society and people should not alter the aspect of your life. The Byronic Hero is a concept brought up by Lord Byron that is present in many writing pieces. These heroes have a detached life leading an imperfect life that usually brings raw and torturous emotions. They are extremely repugnant, doubtful, anguished, and timid. Although there imperfections seem extreme they want others to act on kindness and contain much more complex psychological and emotional views than the conventional hero. Romanticism celebrated nature and the spirit of the individual. Romantics viewed the natural world as a origin of positive, good, emotions and ideas.