Romantic Love-A Study On Emotional Freedom Of Romanticism

In the late 18th century, the Great French revolution squalls stimulated the sensitive nerve of the age. A new kind of "freedom" spirit emerged with a fierce impetus like a raging tempest, and started The Romantic Age. "Freedom" is the core of spirit of Romanticism and even the entire cultural trend. So Hugo, as a leader of the French Romanticism literature, said:"Romanticism is a Literary Liberalism."Literature is about emotions, the attention to the emotional liberation is always the fundamental mission of literature. Thus, there is an old statement that "love is the eternal theme of literature". Based on the pursuit and aspiration of "free spirit", striving for the emotional freedom and constructing a new kind of emotional relationship, logically became an important principle of the Romantics to against all secular traditional concepts and principles of preexisting authority. To liberate human's emotions from the old custom and view heart as a new criterion to judge emotions to reform the old custom code, in the trend of the times fighting for freedom, if can't cover the ultimate and fundamental mission of these romantic fighters, is surely their primary task.Retrospect to the exploration of The Romantics in both theory and practice about "emotional freedom", we can find that the devotion of the Romantics to "emotional freedom" during the age of Romanticism is not only concerned with its conflict with traditional moral concept, but also relate to the bold exploration of sexual concept and behaviors inevitably. This paper is carried out largely in accordance with this cognitive framework to probe into the basic connotation of "free love" of Romanticism and its expression in literary text.