Saturday, 1 November 2008

What are at least three "Romantic" elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"?

Romanticism is a term often used to describe many works of art produced in the early
nineteenth century. Romanticism is often seen as a reaction against the art of the eighteenth
century, which is often called neo-classical. If neo-classical art emphasized reason,
responsibility, tradition, order, moderation, and the lives of aristocrats and members of the
upper classes, romanticism often emphasized strong emotion (even passion), freedom, innovation,
lack of restraint, excesses, and the lives of the middle classes or the poor. Neo-classicism is
often associated with the man-made and artificial; Romanticism is often associated with anything
and everything natural, including especially the beauty and power of untamed natural
landscapes.

Romanticism tends to celebrate the distinctive individual, the
exotic or strange, the unusual or even the bizarre. At the same time, it also tends to celebrate
the ideal of humans living in harmony with nature and with one another.

In
what ways...

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