Dark Romanticism

1. The three authors would not believe in transcendental philosopy because transcendentalists believed that everyone was pure and good. The authors had many bad things to happen to them in their life and they've also have seen many horrible things happen to other people and that would make them thinkthat no one is pure and up to no good. for example Nanthaniel Hawthorne's great grandfather was a judge in the salem witchcraft trials and was the cause many cruel deaths and that makes Nanthaniel think that there was evil in the world. That idea affected his anti romanticism.

Herman Melville witnessed cannanbalism when he saw this he thought it was a bad thing because of the evil he saw.







2. I think i am most like an dark romantic because the dark romantists believed that not everyone was good and that people did some terrible things and had evil in them. Not everyone was considered good to the romantics the mind could snap at any time a causing you to do something out of the ordinary. I dont believe that everyone is good and pure like the transcendentalists believe.





3. The story "The black cat" was a really great story that told about a man who is married and him and his wife loves animals. The Narrator is quick tempered and get frustrated at his cat at some point of time when he just dosen't feel like being bothered. because the narrator has such a bad temper he ends up killing his first cat and his wife.


The Dark romantics would disagree with the transcendentalists because the transcendentalists believed that everyones intuition was pure and that god spoke to everyone causing them to do his will. that is not so with the dark romantists: they believed that god didin't speak to you through you and not everyone was good and pure and the mind could snap at anytime to do evil. in the story the narrator's intuition told him to do evil as in to kill his cat and wife.





5. Poe's wife was dying an it was dark and late very freightening for poe Edgar Allen poe because it was very late at night and heard someone outside his chamber door "sir said i, or maiden truly your forgiveness i implore; but the fact is i was napping and so gently you came rapping, and so gently you came rapping and so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door." it was nothing but a raven that that was not going to leave any time soon, the raven represents death because of the fact that his wife has died.





The transcendentalists believed that everything was good and pure and everything that was done was done through the speaking of god and that no one did any evil. The narrator in the story calls the raven a "thing of evil" and the Transcendentalists believed that there was no evil. "And my soul from out the shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted -nevermore!" the Anti transcendentalists believed that your soal could be damned forever which is what the dark romantists believed. The transcencdentalists believed that you turned to the over soul no matter what.



6. After edgar allen poe's mother died and his father disowned him he was adopted. when he was 18 years old he enlisted into the armed forces under name "edgar a. perry" and claimed he was 22 years old when he was only 18 years old he first served at fort independence in boston harbor that same year he released his first book, a 40-page collection of poetry called "by a Bostonian"