1、The path of mystery leads inwardsAfter reading the whole book of Sophies World, I found that the most impressive part was Chapter 25, which gives me a better understanding of Romanticism and the importance of inside world. I love the sentence at the beginning of that part-the path of mystery leads i
2、nwardsIt reminds me of how enormous and incredible the world in our mind is. Everyone has a secret garden inside since the day we were born and started to realize the world. We all used to keep walking on the mysterious path to figure out who we are, what is the nature, and what the world spirit is.
3、 Some grow up and no longer have any fantastic imaginations or ideas, and they begin to live an undistinguished life as their parents or people around them do. Some are confused and do not want to explore the inwards any more, then they turn to focus on more practical things like wealth and career.
4、Only those who persist their original curiosity and creativity, and have the passion to get to know more about their inside world can become an artist, or we say, a romanticist.In the book, after Hilde woke up the next morning and began to read, Sophie returned home and heard that her mother had inv
5、ited Joanna and her parents over. Joanna and Sophie created an invitation to her birthday party, which was to be a “philosophical garden party.“ Joannas parents thought it looked interesting and were willing to come. On Tuesday, Alberto told Sophie he had been working on their plan. It was easier to
6、 work when the major was focused on Sophie, he said. He points out that her party is scheduled for the same day that Hildes father is supposed to return from Lebanon. Later that afternoon they meet and Alberto began to talk about “Romanticism”. Compared to Enlightenment, a movement which started amo
7、ng tiny elites and slowly spread to make its influence felt throughout society, Romanticism was more widespread both in its origins and influence. No other artistic movement has had such variety, reach, and staying power since the end of the middle Ages. It could be described as Europes last great c
8、ultural epoch. Romanticism first arose in Germany as an opposed movement to the Enlightenments excessive emphasis on reason, and people began to criticize the bias toward reason. At that time, the key words are “feeling”, “imagination”, “experience”, and “yearning”. On this condition, the individual
9、 was completely free to interpret life in his own way.However, the majority of todays people who lives in the world over one hundred years after the Romanticism era already lost this kind of freedom. A 5-year-old child can paint a better picture than an adult. A teenager who loves go hiking and camp
10、ing to find out the nature and natures mysteries may not have these hobbies when he becomes a middle-age man. A student who writes a brilliant novel may give up writing after the teachers or parents criticize some plots against convention. When we begin to grow up, teachers teach us knowledge and lo
11、gic, parents teach us how to behave in the right way. The majority of us have already been accustomed to accept rather than create by ourselves. As a result, most children are just like batch-type production, having no distinctive personality or ideology. What is more, those who have noteworthy cond
12、uct and independent character may be punished for their “rebel” behavior. Normal people are overwhelmed by the pressure from society and family, or addicted to material staffs, so they have no time to feel, to imagine, to experience, or to yearn. The central point of life is to work harder and harde
13、r for the sake of get more and more money. How pathetic it is!On the other hand, romantics exploited the freedom to interpret life in an almost unrestrained ego-worship, which led to the worship of artistic genius. The artist has a “universe-creating imagination”, so if he is full of artistic raptur
14、e he could sense the dissolving of the boundary between dream and reality. It is just like the young genius Novalis said: “the world becomes a dream, and the dream becomes reality.” For instance, Beethoven uses his music to express his own feelings and yearnings, which left us a lot of immortal mast
15、erpieces. Byron and Shelley were Romantic poets of so-called satanic school, and Byron was the idol of the Romantic Age. The Byronic hero has the alien, moody, rebellious spirit in life as well as in art. It was universally acknowledged that the duty of the Romantics is to experience life or to drea
16、m him away from it and those day-to-day businesses could be taken care of by the philistines.Is it necessary for everyone to become a romantic and doing nothing but feeling and creating all day long? Of course not. The importance is we should not let the romantic spirit we born with vanish although we are engaged in so many secularities. In any case we cannot lose the passion to find beauty or create beauty. To some extent, everyone can become the artist of life if only they keep explore the mysterious way leads to their mind.
