Dark Romanticism

1.Nathaniel Hawthorns: was different from transcendentalist b/c he thought that that the things they believed was wrong and knowing the fact that his relatives was a big part of what they believed in he was embarrassed of them.His family belived in the fact everyone was pure and good and that they could communicate with god in thier heads.But nathaniel thought diffrent.



2.Herman Melville: Was a Dark Romantic an opposite of a transcendentalist an example of his experience of being different was,do to the fact he lost his leg he had a bit of evil that gave him a thought in mind you can lose every one on your ship and including your ship just to get back at a whale that had bitten your leg off, just for the sake of it. Seems to me he didnt want to listen to the trancendentalist , the pure andthe fact he didnt want to listen to God.



3.Edger Allen Poe:was against transcendentalist b/c he basically had a sad and hard life.He didn't believe everyone was pure & good as others thought he thought their was another side of transcendentalist a dark side. Which he had experinced in his life. It was a total diffrence from Trancendentalist.

I would consider myself as being both a transcendentalist and a dark romantic.I consider myself being both because I can be nice and be a good child listen and do as god asked of me.I can also be a dark romantic and just become a mean unfit person to be around once i get upset.

The Black Cat
This story is about a man who has a love for animals. A little later on he gets married to a woman who loves animals just as much as he did. A while after being married they bought a whole bunch of animals birds, gold fish, a fine dog , rabbits,a small monkey , and a cat,by the name of Pluto.But on this one day Pluto takes the wrong turn and bites the hand that feed him.In that one bite from this black and angered cat evil cam amongst him(the man) while still intoxicated with gin this very angered man takes the cat by his neck and snatches his eye out .On that very next day he hangs the cat, and while doing it he cries.After all this happened and have done so much harm another cat comes along with a missing eye and a strange white patch on its chest.This cat became a favorite to his wife and on this day of him drinking he gets ready to kill the cat again and his wife comes between them doing that , and he kills her instead.After killing his wife goes looking for the cat but it was no where to be found.Not Knowing what he should do with his wife's body so he puts her body into the wall. A little after time goes by police come by out of suspicion and he just about gets off with the murder until the cat comes along and makes a loud scream in the wall and at that moment he had been caught. One of the direct qoute's is , "My original soul seemed, at once, to take its fight from my body; and a more than a fiendish malevolence, gin-nutured, thrilled every fibre of my fame." Here he is stating how he could tell how he felt when he changed into a diffrent person he bacame an evil man.

Response:
I really like this story. The way that they described the cat and all the rest of the intersting things that went on in this dark tale.I used my dark imagination to understand this story.Seems to me he only got angary when he start drinkin, and when the cat was around.Onlything I see that could have been added was a mane for the Man in this story.

Edger Allen poe:
This is about a young boy who growed up a sad life and seem to follow him to his death bed.At an early age. He had many wives and they all died of TB and for one of his wives he wrot a poem for her while she was in the other room dying while this was going on a bird known as a raven comes along and was a part of his life till he died in 1849.