A Society in The Eyes of Enlightenment and Romanticism The Enlightenment and Romanticism eras had different ideas of what comprises a society. The Romantics valued an adventurous individual, while the Enlightenment movement valued using reason in their society. The Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, thought that the individual was less important than the whole society. This whole society was to be an orderly one, that used logic and human reason. In Ben Franklin’s, “Poor Richard’s Almanack (the autobiography??),” he creates a schedule of sorts to map out his day, recording his faults and accomplishments. After continuing to follow this route, Franklin finds that he has committed many more faults than