From Romanticism To The Volk

In George L. Mosse’s “From Romanticism to the Volk,” he states, “Like, romanticism, Volkish ideas showed a distinct tendency toward the irrational and emotional . . . Rationalism had been discredited” (Mosse 13). In this quote, the word “irrational” represents the concept of the romanticism and “rationalism” represents the concept of the enlightenment, and this quote basically means that the enlightenment ideas lost people’s faith. As one can realize in Mosse’s quote, there is a distinct conflict between the idea of enlightenment and the romanticism. Indeed, during 18th and 19th centuries, there was huge a tension between people who followed the romanticism’s concepts and enlightenment’s concepts, since romanticism was an uprising against
First, both Nathanael and the romanticism were consistently reject by other people. For Nathanael, he was consistently rejected by Klara. In Nathanael’s first letter, he says and believes that Coppelius is the Sandman and Coppelius is the one who killed Nathanael’s father. However, Klara thinks differently. Klara distinctly says that whatever Nathanael is believing in is not real, but only an
During the time when the world is slowly changing to more like to the enlightenment, it must been a tremendous struggle for Nathanael who never changed his romanticism belief even before his death. Similarly, it must been a tremendous struggles of the romanticists. Even though both Nathanael and the romanticists were trying to keep their beliefs and ideas, they just could not keep their beliefs and ideas. The enlightenment thinks were dominating the world with their scientific proofs. Death of the romantic thought was not a surprise. Perhaps, the romanticists were trying harder to keep their beliefs and ideas because they knew that time of their ends will come