Romanticism

Romanticism The Renaissance was a rebirth to many things: art, music, literature, even religion. Overall the Renaissance could be seen as a rebirth of human thought, as man once again began to express themselves. This resulted in what was almost a backlash in the Enlightenment as men began to express the idea that men tend to be full of it. If you are wandering what ‘it’ is, add an ‘sh’. Even now though Romanticism is pulling it all together, and spitting it out in every way imaginable. They say the Renaissance was the beginning of modern culture, which is true. However it was a renaissance, and these new thoughts had to catch up with the past first. Machiavelli called back to the kings of old, and spoke of how rulers should truly act. But toward the end Don Quixote expressed the revolutionary idea of life being what you make of it. The differing views of the Renaissance were, for the most part, all accepted simply because people saw their time period as the reawakening of the human mind and spirit. Of course Machiavelli was banned in England, since his views didn’t quite renaissance, man, people, idea, should, romanticism, men, always, world, romantics, optimism, good, even, true, out, ideas, god, candide, voltaire, things, simply, self, religion, reality, quite, own, must, inherently, general, full, every, enlightenment, didn’t, comes, certain