<Tab/>A romantic is someone who envisions the idealistic, has an imaginative thought process and most importantly is an individual. The opposite of a romantic, a realist is someone who looks only at the facts and what is in front of them, a person who is against those that break away from the norm. As a romantic, it is one's fate to experience a catharsis that shakes the core of one's …showed first 75 words of 2113 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2113 total…A realist is transformed from a romantic, when an earth-shattering event happens in the romantic's eyes. This motivation results in the above change. Works Cited Dead Poets Society. Dir. Peter Weir. Touchstone, 1989. Dead Poets Society: Final Script. 1989. 31 May. 2005 < http://www. <Tab/>impawards.com/weir/dps/script.html>. Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1953. Knowles, John. A Separate Peace. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960.