Journal 62: Romantics v Realists

The Romantics focus on what is in there minds, what is the most ideal of situations and some the least ideal. The Romantics are like the extremists taking things over the edge and outside of the box compared when compared to the Realists. The Realists are very much observers of the society. They write what they see and present it realistically, as the name suggests. Romantics loved nature and viewed it as a powerful and beautiful things. The Realists later on Naturalists viewed nature as something powerful as well. However they find it to be something that isn't always beautiful. They both serve different purposes in literature. Romantics conveyed the feelings with in and always had a happy ending, sometimes with a moral. Realists simply describe life and present to the people. They like to so the differences in social classes and also the effects of war. They like to show how events change people and how people react to things. In all the realists stories that we have read I noticed a pattern of third person limited narrators. Maybe because they want to better present the surroundings and events while showing one particular person's thoughts.