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Fraaz Mahmud
Ideas change the world. This thing is historically proved that ideas are generated
through thinking process. If a country progresses, it means that the people of that country
produce ideas but if a country declines, it shows that the people’s thought processes are
stagnant. To develop the declining nationalism of a country, new ideas must be
introduced. If we look at our society, an extreme need of new ideas will be felt. To
change the worse condition of our nation, romanticism can be the best possible idea.
Romanticism is actually a complex, literary and intellectual movement that
originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe . It was a revolt
against aristocratic, political and social norms of the age of enlightenment. It was also a
reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. The basic aims of romanticism are
as under:
1. A return to nature and belief in the goodness of humanity.
2. The rediscovery of the artist as an individual creator.
3. The development of nationalistic pride.
4. The exaltation of senses and emotions over reason and intellect.