In this essay I would like to explore writers of both Romanticism and Realism including Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). These writers and their works, "Hedda Gabler", "The Cherry Orchard" and "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" to name a few were instrumental to the development of the Romantic genre then changing to Realism as we know it to be today.
<Tab/>Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in the year 1818. Slavery and the harsh reality it carries…
