Dark Romanticism

1)Person (a) Nathaniel Hawthorne would have been against the Transcendentalism the strongest because his family was believed to be evil and he was a part of his family. He also criticizes the Puritans culture. Other than that by his family being evil this is a cause of them being against transcendentalism.

(b) Herman Melville also would be against it. This is because he had evil in his mind as well. Examples of which were he is witnessed of seeing the cannibals in the South Pacific. He also wrote a book called "Moby Dick" which was a story of a ship captain who was obsessed with killing a whale, and killing something has to do with being evil.

(c)Edgar Allen Poe was against it a little. The reason I think it was just a little because it only describes that in his stories that the characters had evil thoughts, but did not have acts of being evil. Also some argue that in all of his stories something represents what’s on his mind.

2) I most likely fall on the dark romanticism side. The reason I say this is because I have evil thoughts a lot. Sometimes I thin of hurting people really bad when I feel miss treated. Some people seem to think that I am evil as well. They say this because I say mean things to them with out thinking. Now in the world it’s very hard being on the Transcendentalism side. This is because of all the disrespectful people living today, and the part were you have to protect yourself.

3) Read "The Black Cat"

4) The Black Cat was such of an evil story. Almost every character in this story was against transcendentalism. This was because they were evil. When you are evil back then you are found to be of the Dark Romanticism. I really liked this story. It was very eye catching. The story was about this man with this black cat named Pluto. In other words with Pluto being a black cat he was known for being evil.

By the cat being known as evil because it was black, then it was against transcendentalism. Another thing in the story that was evil was the person telling the story. The person telling the story was a male. He would abuse and beat on the black cat. He was the owner of the animal, but it was not nice to be so cruel to the animal. Then one day somebody killed his cat. That’s also a sign of some one being evil.

I really think this story was made for people who enjoy evil thoughts and doings of others. This story was a good one. But the only problem I had at the beginning was that I couldn’t really get into the story as well as I did in the middle. Almost every person in this story was evil except for the narrator’s wife. She cared for the new black cat that they had got. She also stopped her husband from killing the cat. This is what took her life. Because when she tried to help the cat her husband killed her.

5) "Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer," were the words of Edgar Allen Poe. This was a line from the poem "The Raven" that caught my attention of a meaning. To me this line was saying that his wife was dying and that his soul was ready for what was going to happen. Also it meant to me that he was not going to doubt about her dying anymore. This was one of the lines that were easier to understand. "Wretch," I cried. "thy God hath lent thee by these angels he hath sent thee." Gives me a thought of Mr. Poe thanking God for sending him angels to help relieve him from pain. Also to help him through the life and death situation his wife.

6) Edgar Allen Poe was known for writing poems, and short stories. He also as well created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller in the stories. Poe lost his parents before he turned three. He was adopted into John Allen’s family. He went to the University of Virginia, but only stayed for one year. He ran up gambling debts that his foster dad refused to pay. Poe went to the army after his foster dad left him for his college sweetheart. After six months in the army Poe was dismissed from the army school. This was because of his disobedience of orders. That’s when he started first publishing his first books and poems.