Seen as two different times in history, the Enlightenment and Romanticist periods are actually very close relatives of each other. During the Enlightenment period, time was ruled with logic and skepticism, always analyzing and looking for an answer through reason whether it is God or other matters. The Romanticism period focused mainly on the artistic, intellectual and literacy ideas of the time. The Romanticism ideas were birthed from the very womb of the Enlightenment therefore having some similarities, but also had many opposing ideas. Both the Enlightenment and Romanticism periods being rebellions of society saw ideas through similar lenses. Differences between the two periods include Romanticists seeing the world through an artistic lens
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The all around big ideas of each were completely different. The strong holders of the Enlightenment challenged society to practice the idea of God being the answer to all questions in the world. Not only ideas of religion were brought fourth to question but also discussion of human nature and logic with that. Famous Enlightenment writers included Voltaire, Locke and Holmes. Voltaire wrote passages on how human act around each other. Similarly, Locke and Holmes wrote their ideas of humanity’s corrupt nature and how the laws of the government should protect the “life, liberty, and property.” (567) Romanticism emerged to challenge the Enlightenments’ idea with reason in discovering truth. “The Romantics tried to balance the use of reason by stressing the importance of intuition, feeling, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing” (649) Individuals of the Romanticism period were ruled by emotion. Romantics can be seen through many aspects of art, whether it is music, paintings, of poems. Well-known painters like Delacroix showed large amounts of emotion in his paintings with exotic and passionate color. (652) Many paintings of landscapes were popular. If a person were incorporated they were engulfed by the picturesque of the nature that they were surrounded by. Romanticism could not get beyond the idea of how beautiful the world
The all around big ideas of each were completely different. The strong holders of the Enlightenment challenged society to practice the idea of God being the answer to all questions in the world. Not only ideas of religion were brought fourth to question but also discussion of human nature and logic with that. Famous Enlightenment writers included Voltaire, Locke and Holmes. Voltaire wrote passages on how human act around each other. Similarly, Locke and Holmes wrote their ideas of humanity’s corrupt nature and how the laws of the government should protect the “life, liberty, and property.” (567) Romanticism emerged to challenge the Enlightenments’ idea with reason in discovering truth. “The Romantics tried to balance the use of reason by stressing the importance of intuition, feeling, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing” (649) Individuals of the Romanticism period were ruled by emotion. Romantics can be seen through many aspects of art, whether it is music, paintings, of poems. Well-known painters like Delacroix showed large amounts of emotion in his paintings with exotic and passionate color. (652) Many paintings of landscapes were popular. If a person were incorporated they were engulfed by the picturesque of the nature that they were surrounded by. Romanticism could not get beyond the idea of how beautiful the world