Thursday, March 24, 2011

Romanticism in 'First Love'

According to the article about romanticism, 'First Love' has several elements that can be referred from Romanticism such as Nature, Emotions, Individualism and Everyday Life.
Turgenev's detailed description about the nature can be read in some parts of the story.  For example, his description about the background when the boy met the girl makes the reader to easily imagine about the background of story.  Furthermore, emotions such as love, respect and sadness around the boy's first love is mainly illustrated in the story.  In the field of Individualism, the girl's individuality to get her love represents the feminine individualism in Romanticism.  Lastly, Turgenev deals with Everyday life in nineteenth century in Russia.  These romanticism elements clearly prove 'First Love' as romanticism work.

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