Romanticism is a current that manifested itself in the late
             1700s and quickly swept through Europe. One of its characteristics is
             its universality; its field of manifestation was widespread and went form
             painting, art, music to literature. The Romantic current generally has
             some common features that can be traced across all its areas of
             manifestation. I am referring here to its sources of inspiration
             (generally folklore and popular art) or to the nationalistic innuendos that
             the romantic works make (for example, let us consider the French Romantic
             paintings, full of such themes). Some of the Romantic works, especially
             the literary ones, call upon the Middle Ages as a source of inspiration, a
             period that best encouraged the Romantic imagination.
             However, one of the most important elements of the Romantic Movement
             is the romantic character himself. A romantic character generally has
             several common characteristics which make him recognizable from the every
             beginning. One of these is individualism. The rise of capitalism and
             mercantilism destabilized the old medieval patterns and it was most often
             the case that the new bourgeois refused to fit into the old order and
             "developed their own tastes in the arts and created new social and artistic
             movements alien to the old aristocracy"[1]. The direct effect that this
             phenomenon had in art and literature was that, if before the Church and
             aristocracy usually shared the same ideas and tastes, the new society
             presented a numerous association of individualistic people, where any
             artists or writer could find a sympathetic audience that would pay for his
             work. Thus, the individualism developed in the society reflected itself in
             the arts and literature as well and every artist could now create according
             Literary heroes like Faust helped create and better define the
             romantic hero. We are faced here with characters that either ca...