In case you’ve forgotten, Sleeping Beauty is a messed up fairytale. In the film, Maleficent is an intense, powerful woman who kicks butt as a fairy queen, but who hurts from the isolation of being, well, a perceived villain. Romantic writers discarded the standards and customs used by their predecessors by giving the expression of life as seen by their imagination instead of prosaic “common sense,” what Victor Hugo’s called as “liberalism in literature.Disney’s much-hyped new adaptation of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairytale steers the story away from the familiar dashing prince protagonist, focusing instead on the story’s supposed villain: Angelina Jolie takes wing as the powerful Maleficent. In Garrett words, ‘the wit that was once so fresh and vigorous in the writings of Pope and Swift now had become dull and redundant’. In Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge captures the love for nature, individualism, mysticism, unrestrained imagination, and strong response against neoclassical codes. It marks its beginning with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in England towards the end of the 18th century. Romanticism, a movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that pronounced reaction in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and politics against formal orthodoxical preceding period, Neoclassicism. Here arise the questions like “What actually romanticism is?” “When did it begin?” and “What is the difference between Romantic poetry and Romantic-period poetry?”.

Around 11398 definitions of ‘Romanticism’ was given by F.L Lucas in his book The Decline. Romanticism has evolved quite progressively and has witnessed so many transitions that precise interpretation is not feasible. ‘Romantic’- the word had been used by Friedrich Schlegel, a German poet, to describe the literature for the first time, which also entangled the innumerable challenges of defining it. In this paper, we aim to actualize the reality of war being romanticized by poets to the extremity of squandering their own life in it. Romanticism was slowly but steadily ushering on the frontier of liberty, equality and fraternity further strengthening the dilemma of war being fruitful for the common man. These romantic writers were stirred from the belittling attitude of government towards nature and citizens. Edward Dowden, prominent Victorian critic, viewed 'French Revolution' as an expounding force that framed the ideology of romanticism and intertwines in the pretext of major works of the era. Owing to the ignition of the world, the current of romanticism found its roots in the very soil of nature, thereby came the primitive radical attitude. PB Shelley or Lord Byron though they never promoted violence and bloodshed of the war-front, still they couldn't escape from the dazzled glory of war. Therefore, the romantic age poets namely Wordsworth, Coleridge. Be it the expeditions of Britain or the 'French Revolution' one staggering emotion has always held the youth bound to the glory attached to war i.e., liberation. It always means worse for some.” (Commander Waterford) View full-textĭistraughted reality and disillusioned youth though the reality of war is always the same but misapprehension about it has time and again blurred the vision of generations. Theocratic government was clear of the point that “Better never means better forĮveryone. In quest of fabricating a society with perfection, the Totalitarian society of Gilead on fundamentals of misogynist religion in her Drawing from this, Margaret Atwood carves out a theocratic Modification and alteration are what propels the machinery of dystopian Punishment as described by Foucault in his work Discipline and Punish whereĬhannelizing humans is a matter of just appraisal and punishment. Societies lend us to one very rudiment trajectory i.e. Stratagem of the dystopian societies where bleak future is supposedly Future is one thing that kept every society thrivingīut opportuning and profiteering from the very unforeseen is the working still it’s epicenter more or less revolves around Though the dystopian fiction creates a world of endless misery andĭowntrodden civilian rights. Where extremity rules, where vandalizing bodies, constant surveillanceĪnd ultimate subjugation of civilians in the hands of government is at theĬore. Totalitarian society or thoughts, for that matter anything that is too skewed

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