Comparing The Time Periods Of The Enlightenment, Romanticism, And Realism

Throughout the varying time periods, artists have represented the culture, values, and logic of their environment and reflected them into their work. The Enlightenment Period was an era in which artists pulled their inspiration from observation and reason, noting that nature should be controlled by humans and society by social hierarchy. Whereas, the Era of Romanticism placed emphasis on emotions and imagination, whilst responding to the work of the Enlightenment Period and showcased work that focused on the ideas of democracy and leaving nature untamed. In the latter Realism period, many literature pieces focused on the ordinary rather than large scale ideas and no longer seeing nature as an antidote to human injustices. (698). In the passages from the varying time periods the author's values were often responses associated with the idea put forth by the authors before them. Three literary works that show the divergent values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Realism time periods are, Tartuffe, by

When the speaker returns to the river he is easily able to note his comfort and recall the memories that he has there, “The day is come when I again repose / Here, under this dark sycamore, and view / These plots of cottage-ground, these orchards, tuffs,” (9-11). With the focus of emotion in the Romantic period, the reader is portrayed as someone who is in a complete touch of his feelings and himself. Through the seamless connections from his past and future experiences with nature he is able to capitalize on the nostalgia and submerge himself in the setting, “While here I stand, not only with the sense / Of present pleasure, but with pleating thoughts / That in this moment there is life and food,”