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__Themes__

Nationalism - Establishing individual identity

Nature - With industrialism there was a separation from nature, nature was incorporated into everything they did, romanticism,

Romanticism -

A look back at previous works from old cultures, a revival of older works

Focus on nature, and aspects of human life,

Fairy tales, when did they begin? "Once upon a time..."

Setting...? A stranger from the east who sets things going

Civilization going from east to west, childhood to adulthood

Life and death, love, nature, good and evil, purpose of life

Life, death, and love, can encompass the other themes

St. Thomas Aquinas spoke about the individual human soul

Changed the view about nobility, and clergy vs the common man

Christ blessed all those people equally, and everyone mattered

Luther came and gave way to the idea that humans have free will

Enlightenment, questioning the things in the world, brought an age of science

Science - answers how we are here, but not why, or what happens after death, does not say how love works

Science can not answer the questions of life, death, and love

Romantics came upon the idea that within science and society, there are certain things that you can not explain, life, love, purpose, religion can give you an answer to some extent, but there are many who are skeptical to what religion states

Society is supposed to keep you safe, not answer those questions

Why is society trying to protect us from death so much? How do they know if death is really that bad?

To find answer to these questions, romantics went to nature, not to religion or science.

Nature was a way to prove the questions of love, life, death, and purpose

Nature shows harmony, ecosystems working together in a symbiotic relationship

If nature was untouched by man, it would be paradise, forests, waterfalls, and the beauty that is nature

By looking at nature in its natural state, it seems harmonious, and a world where everything has a purpose, where everything lives and dies