Dark Romanticism

I don't think i could choose which side i would fall on. I think that poeple do connect with God whether they are alone or not. I believe people should be the person that God meant them to be. On the Dark Romantic side. I believe that not everyone is good and pure because i think everyone has a "dark" side. If i would have to choose i think im more of a Transcendentalist.

I read The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. When the story first begins Poe is going about his life like every normal person but eventually he lets you into a different side of him, a "evil" side, when he starts drinking. He becomes angry with his pets and wife. He even starts showing violence towards them all except his cat pluto. Eventually he seemed like he couldnt control this evil side and came home one night and cut his cat's eye out. This is a example of Dark Romanticism because a good and pure person wouldnt have ever harmed a animal. The Dark Romantics believed that everyone had "evil" in them so no one could be good and pure. The transcendentalist believed that everyone was good and pure. This story by Poe is a prime example that not everyone is good and pure.

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe shows some signs of Dark Romanticism. In the poem poe makes the Raven represent evil and death. A line that caught my attention is when the raven is at his window and he says "Prophet! said I, thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil--" He believes the Raven is the devil and is responsible for his wife's, Lenore, death.