What are some characteristics of romanticism?
the use of Gothic settings flights of emotion by characters characters who exemplify ideals or ideas rather than human attributes morbid fascinations with death extreme circumstances where a task or trial becomes so important that it becomes the central focus of then novel and overshadows the rest of humanity. really, Romanticism is a relative term, and while your teacher might give you a text book definition, the truth is that all characters and novels written since the 19th century have Romantic characteristics.
