Analysis of Self-Consciousness in Western Romantic Literature

In the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century,Western Romantic Literature owned a strong sense of self-consciousness . It was mainly symbolized by the followings: to admire free self in resisting the society, to search for natural self in returning to the nature, to examine inner self in exploring the inner world. This strong sense made self-respect possible in Romantic Literature . It fully and deeply expressed the self-consciousness in Western Literature for the first time and reveal the self-consciousness at a great depth.Thus people were liberated and free to a great extent.