The Romanticism is a backlash against the Enlightenment and Age of Reason because during the Enlightenment and Age of Reason period people believed science and things of that nature would continue to improve with no sight of it stopping. This gave the people a false sense of the world and this is when the Romanticism moment came along as the backlash this began at the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth. They thought the advances that had been made by the Enlightenment were oppressive and that it was creating a conformist society. They didn’t believe that science could understand the human personality, so they thought that as the world began to progress that this would cause them to lose their values, which had already begun
