Pip Rasmussen

So this is the 1800s to the 1850s, and this –

era was considered the Romanticism era.

And this is the ideas that we have now today.

So like Shakespeare kind of laid the groundwork.

But before the Romantic era, you know, there was like

yearning and love and lust and passion and sex and desire, right?

Like we've been talking about, but it wasn't the norm.

And marriage was still about something that was around property alliances or survival.

But in this period, writers and thinkers and philosophers started pushing back on that.

And they believed in marriage being about love and emotions.

So they were really anti-reason.

I think that when we think about historically, there's so many rules, right?

It was, you know, you were told that this was your ranking in society, that this is what your life would look like.

A lot of women in particular, if it was heterosexual marriage, which it obviously was because same-sex marriage didn't exist then, but you were just expected under the patriarch to be kind of sold and bought like cow's.

Like it was like your dad would sell you off for a dowry and that you – you know, a lot of women entered into abusive relationships and didn't have any autonomy.

So this era was kind of a really strong pushback against what people had previously had expected of them for marriage.

And it was all about love was something that was framed as pure and instinctive and –

morally meaningful right it was like let's stop thinking i'm fucking done with thinking i'm sick and tired of logic i'm sick and tired of rules we should all just be following our hearts and we should all be following our feelings yeah so in the same way that like all these major literary errors were happening so like what we started off with like the courtly loves like we've got

A lot of these poets you probably are familiar with and we still talk about today.

They kind of laid the groundwork for the Romantic era.