Romantic artist identified themselves with tormented heroes, worrying over death and lost love, while believing in the admiration of beauty. The style of the Baroque was very different from the style of the Romantic era. ... Below is an example of what Romantic art encompassed. ... People enjoyed comfortable homes due to profitable businesses and wanted to be surrounded by paintings of things they loved. ... Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as romantic, although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. ...

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Courtly love is known in general as a romantic and glamorous type of love, which was practised by the members of the courts across Europe during the Middle Age. ... But concerning to this romantic idea, the big question is to what extent the concept of courtly love is coextensive with the reality of ordinary love relationships at court in the Middle Age and in how far 'courtly love literature' is misinterpreted. ... According to this lack of love in medieval arranged marriages, one of the romantic main ideas of courtly love is that love exists only outside of a marriage. ... In th...

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Courtly love is known in general as a romantic and glamorous type of love, which was practised by the members of the courts across Europe during the Middle Age. ... But concerning to this romantic idea, the big question is to what extent the concept of courtly love is coextensive with the reality of ordinary love relationships at court in the Middle Age and in how far 'courtly love literature' is misinterpreted. ... According to this lack of love in medieval arranged marriages, one of the romantic main ideas of courtly love is that love exists only outside of a marriage. ... In th...

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Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ... Coleridges dual definition of the Imagination, combined with Wordsworths comments on Romantic literature, is conveniently divided into three simple functions. ... Another way in which "Tintern Abbey" constitutes Romantic lyrics is by portraying the ability of the imagination to perceive without "external excitement." ... The sounding cataract / Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock / The mountain, and the deep and...

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Romance films (or romance movies) are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters, television and on the big screen, that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love takes them through dating, courtship or marriage. The dominant ideology of romance films make the romantic love story or the search for strong and pure love and romance the main plot focus. ... Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young ...

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The dynamics of "being in love" are complex and multifaceted. While a full review of the nuances of such pairings is beyond the scope of this paper, my purpose here is to highlight some of the basic processes and communication behaviors relevant to falling in love, dating and romantic relationships. ... In romantic relationships, falling in loveis mainly a Western concept of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards a person to one of love. ... "These results confirm love has a scientific basis," says Ortigue. ... By identifying the parts of the brain stimulated by love, doctors and therapi...

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Having an arranged marriage, in my opinion would mean weaker love from the engaged pair. ... Whereas love marriages, which have the word "love", is a type of marriage where it comes to talking about love. Taking movies as an example, almost all romantic movies included love marriage instead of arranged marriage, because love marriage is able to give out a stronger love from the pair, towards the audience. This is also the reason people would cry in romantic movies. ... However, despiting the fact that arranged marriage would benefits the family, love marriage would affect each othe...

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In John Keats's poem, "Ode to a Nightingale,"" he characterizes the Romantic Era through his discontent with the tiredness of the real world, and he attempts to use the nightingale as a representation of an ideal world where beauty and love are not subject to change. ... Literature from the Romantic Era emphasizes originality and a love for nature. ... "Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow"" (29-30). Keats desires to reach out to this ideal world where love and beauty's existence cease to change. ... John Keats's life had its shar...

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Immortality of Plato's Love Though Plato died nearly 2500 years ago, the English language still keeps his definition of love in common usage. To keep a relationship "platonic" means to eliminate its romantic aspect, restricting the partners to intellectual stimulation alone. Modern minds may think that this love is not as fertile as heterosexual romantic love and even consider this asexual affection something other than love, as it bears no children. ... Naturally, if the object of love is "the good", people who love want to have "the good" forever (206a). ... This perpetuation is esse...

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Romantics believed that man, while certainly capable of evil, was inherently good natured, but that civilization as a whole was flawed and corrupt. ... The vast unknown of the American West appealed to the Romantic followers as they saw nature as a source of wisdom and inspiration for the soul. ... The Romantic Movement saw many authors become household names. Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe became well-known advocates of Romantic ideals. ... "The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one poi...

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" This famous quote reflects the tension felt between the individual and society for some of the later Romantic writers and is apparent in their work. ... Writing in the Nineteenth Century, Romantics such as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman had radical beliefs about the individual's role in society for their time period. ... It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. ...

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This production, The Elixir of Love, managed to look and feel real, with real passion, real sorrow, real despair. ... But loves scorching flame cannot be soothed by shade or stream. ... However, there is more of a complexity to his character than the typical hopeless romantic narrative most may impose on him. Nemorino is a more serious character that has a serious love interest. ... However, perhaps Nemorino was happy and a hopeless romantic character as he yearns for Adina's love, which inevitably pushes him to become a resilient character for obtaining the mutual feelings from Adina. ...

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William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major contributors to the Romantic Movement. ... A theme that is used in nearly every literary piece is nature, which Romantic poets utilize to convey their overall message to their readers. ... He helps get the ball rolling for the Romantic period while acting as a standard for many aspiring poets for years to come. ... "To him who in the love of Nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language; for his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beau...

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Griffith points out the fact that Frankenstein displays these ideas of the Romantic era through Victor Frankenstein and through the monster, which at times he believes are the same person. ... The idea of feelings being a primary issue in the Romantic era is displayed through the monster because he is described as being a child without a choice of being born and basically just wanting to be loved by someone, which shows the primacy of feelings. ... Griffith also points out another idea of the Romantic era and this is, "that the monster sees in the De Laceys the loving family he has never known...

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Though 'Romeo and Juliet' is displayed as a romantic love story, this play is classified as a tragedy. ... The sonnet is most often associated with love therefore is used to present the emotion of their first meeting. ... William Shakespeare applies the technique of oxymorons to display the uncertainty about her love towards Romeo in Act 3 Scene 2. ... This powerful concept shows her extreme love for Romeo as she is willing to give up her family name for the love given by Romeo. ... This is considered as one of the greatest love stories of all time as it has survived in our memo...

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Soon Schumann and Ernestine were engaged, but alas, she left town and the love ended (however, in just a few months Schumann replaced her with a new love interest, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck's own daughter). ... All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... When she was sixteen and he twenty-five, they realized that they were in love. ... "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows no bounds. ...

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Soon Schumann and Ernestine were engaged, but alas, she left town and the love ended (however, in just a few months Schumann replaced her with a new love interest, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck's own daughter). ... All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... When she was sixteen and he twenty-five, they realized that they were in love. ... "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows no bounds. ...

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Films like North By Northwest are rousing comedy-adventures, while a film like Notorious is an old-fashioned romantic thriller, complete with spies, deception, and elegant romance. ... However, what is interesting in Hitchcock`s films, once one think about it, is how he puts an often disturbing spin on most of his romantic pairings. ... At the same time, Grant and Bergman fall in love and attempt an affair, but duty almost always stands in the way. ... And while Grant loves this woman, he distances himself emotionally from what is going on, damaging any bond he had with her. ... The films of...

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Despite the differences in time, familial love is still presented in a similar way. ... Nevertheless this investment in her son does result in the destruction of his attempts at romantic relationships with Clara and Miriam. ... Laertes on the surface is protecting his sister from a romantic relationship with a brooding prince, however some modern audiences have interpreted this dialogue as Laertes not wanting his sister Ophelia to fall into the arms of Hamlet so he can have her to himself. ... Paul's love for his mother and Gertrude's love for him are fairly unspoken yet mutual. ....

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Not only does the strong female friendship and love between Ramatoulaye and Aissatou cultivate a space of understanding, it also serves as site of healing for the women. ... The essential thing is the content of our hearts, which animates usYou have often proved to me the superiority of friendship over love (Bâ 75).... As Ramatoulaye writes, "Friendship has splendours that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. ... It has heights unknown to love (Bâ 56)....

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We mostly see him in the countryside, emphasizing on love and death. ... His hopelessly falling in love brings out the emotional side of him - which wants to believe in something (which is love in this case). The whole idea of Bazarov letting his guard down and falling in love takes away a part of his Nihilist image which is no more pure. ... He is not evil nor is he a complete romantic. ... He also tries to place himself against the Romantics to see how the world really functions but he himself does not manage to resist as his friendship with Arkadey is a very romantic friendship and he also ...

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The novel touches several powerful themes: love and hate, appearances vs. reality, innocence and guilt, whether real or imagined, compassion and hard-heartedness, nature vs. nurture. ... However, it was the French revolution which began the Romantic era and is one of the main factors of the bringing about of this novel; this is because without Romantic ideals the novel would have simply not worked. ... The Romantic Period was known for a change in the direction of the thinking process. ... In all, Romantic ideals were further pushed and given explanation by this story. ... This is because Mary...

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Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. False love is the first evident important theme across Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo forgets his love to Rosaline at the first moment he sees Juliet. ... The other side of symbolism is implied as he used the word "buy" this objectifies Hero; however, it could be seen as romantic as he describes her as extremely valuable as Shakespeare uses the "world" to be able to "buy" Hero. ... This is a smart way of displaying to the aud...

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But why do we love? ... Eros, is the sexual, intimate and passionate love between two individuals, Agape, is the love of God for a man, or the love of a man for God, Philia is the love between friends, and Storge, the love and affection between a parent and his/her children. ... Love is such a challenge for us because we believe there is nothing new to learn about love. ... Furthermore, we separate from each other because we believe that love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of "falling" in love and the permanent state of being in love or "standing" in l...

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Discuss Representations of Love In One or More Poems Read in Class Many different poets throughout history have represented love, perhaps the most common subject matter chosen in poetry, in many different ways, and many of these ideas certainly do not conform to what the current generation would consider love', mostly due to the advent of sexual equality and equal rights. ... In the first section the voice the poet chooses to use (it is never clear if he speaks as himself or if the poem is intended as a satire) very traditional, romantic language and is complimentary throughout, su...

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