CONTEMPORARY VIEW OF LOVE

Making a particular journey along the consecutive artistic movement in the Contemporary Ages, we can perceive that the people’s view of the love has changed in a many contrasted ways since The French Revolution.

         First, in Neoclassicism, the European population has so many problems about economy and rights that they don’t mind love issues at all.

In Romanticism, the people’s response was very different. In those ages, love was idealized so much so that women were considerate a bridge to God. Love is appreciated like a divine principle. But, women were esteemed as pieces which men couldn’t resist, too. In other words, the love in the Romanticism movement was understood like the best and the worst fact of life.

The most famous romantic writers are “Espronceda”, “Bécquer”, “Zorrilla” and “Benito Pérez Galdós”.

“Podrá nublarse el sol eternamente;
Podrá secarse en un instante el mar;
Podrá romperse el eje de la tierra
Como un débil cristal.
¡Todo sucederá! Podrá la muerte
Cubrirme con su fúnebre crespón;
Pero jamás en mí podrá apagarse
La llama de tu amor.” 

(“Amor Eterno”; “Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer”)

         Afterward, Generation of '98 was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War, that criticized the conformism and the ignorance, and the lack of any true spirit among the people. So, when they talked about love, it was in a wistful line about the woman’s loss or any other topic of that sort. 

         Finally, Generation of ’27 opened us all the doors to receive other view of the love, which is a state of the soul. And they impelled us to develop our new currently standpoint, which has a more complex and larger variety of opinions.