【正文】 r stress on emotions in the writing of the romantic period. Romantics held that one could find truth through one’s feelings. This is just the opposite of the rational theories that Benjamin Franklin followed. Rationalists would say that people could find truth through scientific investigation, but romantics were ready to trust their feelings as an avenue for finding truth and finding what was essential in life They believed that the irrational was important in human experience and that not everything could be explained by reason. (3) Romantics did not think of the world as a ticking watch made by God. They thought of the world as a living, breathing being. They stressed the close relationship between man and nature. They viewed nature as an example and source of vivid physical beauty and as a manifestation of spirit in the universe. With deep love for nature, they saw nature as a revelation of truth, the living garment of God. Therefore, nature was a suitable subject for true art. They believed that God was immanent in creation. In other words, when they would look at the finite objects in this world, they would find the presence of an infinite God. (4) Romantics emphasized individualism, placing the individual against the group, against authority. They saw the individual at the very center of life and art. They emphasized personal freedom and freedom from formalism, tradition, and conformity. They delighted in selfanalysis, intricate examination and full exposure of the soul. They cherished no heroworship, yet believed in the perfectibility of humanity. Romantics believed in the natural goodness of human beings. They held that humanity close to nature 英語 畢業(yè)論文 iii would behave well, and would not be hindered by civilization. (5) Romantics affirmed the inner life of the self, and wanted each person to be free to develop and express his own inner thoughts. They believed everybody’s inner self (subconscious) was meaningful, and everybody should have an opportunity to be creative and to express his own thoughts. (6) Romantics cherished strong interest in the past, especially the medieval. They were attracted by the primitive because the primitive often was innocent and close to nature. There were many things written by the romantics about the American Indian. They romanticized the American Indian into a noble savage who was close to nature. Their attitudes were quite different from Puritans who emphasized that the Indians were wild, degenerate barbarians. They pared them to Satan. The romantics would look at the Indians as close to nature and therefore close in touch with God. The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. Personified nature plays an important role in the pages of their works. (7). Romantics were attracted by the wild, irregular, indefinite, remote, mysterious, and the strange. Romanticism has a deep influence on the contemporary time. Today, many people still have been researching on it. By reading As You Like It, one can have a feeling that the rebirth of romanticism. As you like it is a edy written by Shakespeare, who was a popular playwright writing for the mercial theater in London in the 16th century. Shakespeare was not collegeeducated, and although his pany had the sponsorship of King James, his work was not entirely respectable.” He has written many plays, including edies, tragedies and some sons. His work had great influence through ages over the world. To the Romantics, however, Shakespeare’s plays are the essence of folk poetry, the ultimate vindication of their faith in spontaneous creativity. Many European dramas in 19th century were influenced by him. Painters illustrated scenes from his plays, and posers based orchestral tone poems and operas on his narratives. As You Like It was one of the most famous edies of Shakespeare’s. From the setting of the whole story one can find that the forest life is full of truth, kindness, beauty and love, which was the life that the 19th romantics were expecting to. II. Shakespeare’s As You Like It A. Background In 1598， Shakespeare wrote As You Like It. And it bees one of his four famous edies. The play tells a tale happening in the Forest of Arden which is near the hometown Strafford –upon –Avon. When he was a child, he went to play in that place, and had a good memory about that period. He was attracted by the peace and beautiful views and expected to live there. In 16th there was a movement happening in Europe where humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in Medieval Age, to introduce new ideas, and they also voiced that man did not only have ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders, Shakespeare was influenced by this sense, later these beliefs were expressed in the play As You Like It. B. Summary As the play opens, Duck Fredrick has usurped the title and throne of his elder brother, Duck Senior. The elder Duke and his loyal followers have taken up residence in the Forest of Arden. The banish duke’s daughter named Rosalind, when Frederick drove out her father, still kept in his court as a panion for his own daughter Celia. A close friendship had grown up between these ladies, which the quarrels of their fathers did not break. Celia tried by every kindness in her power to repay Rosalind for the injustice. Orlando and Oliver are two brothers divided by enmity, Orlando has long been mistreated by his brother 英語 畢業(yè)論文 ivand when Orlando enters a wrestling match sponsored by Duke Frederick, he attracts the attention of Rosalind. Likewise, Duke Frederick’s daughter and Rosalind to Arden like her father。 關(guān)鍵詞 浪漫主義；皆大歡喜；自然；情感；喜劇 Introduction Romance has a close relationship with people. It does not