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romanticism

g with those of the past concluded and basically saying they were full of it.In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust Dr. Faustus is full of discontent and pain due to the fact that even thought he has all the titles and knowledge he is any more better off than before. He saying that even though he is book smart he isn’t happy with how he is as a person. This could vary well be seen or considered the greatest Romantic expression of all due to the fact that this is what it was all about, meaning the Romantic Movement. Not being happy with who you are because you don’t know who you are or what your surroundings are.Romanticism has had a more significant effect on the modern Western Civilization because people have keep the concepts of the people named above and other philosophers of the time alive through out time. People care more about what they are more than what they could know. Even after saying this I don’t know what to classify myself as being, either a cool rationalist or an intuitive, spiritual being. I guess I could be both. This being to my beliefs as an individual person towards certain things as nature and religion, things along the lines of what these two movements were based on. So I really have no answer to that particular question.Romanticism in the 19th century was a time that shaped peoples in the way that there thinking and actions have changed dramatically since the Enlightenment. People started to think and wonder more than before. They wanted to know the truth behind what they were being taught. This was a time when people were becoming more independent than before. This was a time when a lot of questions were answered and the truth came out....

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