Romantics VS Realists

The main difference between romantics and realists is that the romantics are idealistic and realists are realistic. The romantics believe that people can find truth and tranquility in supernatural, imaginative inner world. They tend to escape reality to an idealistic world where everyone lives happily and the evils are always defeated by the good. Probably these romantics want to avoid the sadness and pain of the world. On the other hand, realistic stay true and embrace reality. In their novels or poems, realists portray ordinary common things using everyday speech and stay true to reality without being pessimistic or optimistic of the world. They tend to just portray everyday life as true as possible without taking sides. Realists avoided heroes or extreme villains portray in dark romantic’s novels. Romantics writing tend to be filled with emotions where the events are extreme to both end that they can be extremely optimistic or pessimistic. As mention earlier in previous blog, the emergence of realism in America is mainly due the American civil war where writers discover that they can no longer portray the world as idealistic as before. Facing all the violence and ambivalence of evil or good, writer decides to portray the world they see with realistic perspective.