Dark Romanticism

1. I think I fall more into being a Dark Romanticism. There is no way that everyone is pure. i mean look at our world today, with all the hatred, people killing one another, child molesters, and abusers there is no way that everyone is pure. I think that no matter who you are you have some type of evil in you, and some display it way more than others. I do agree that there is a such thing as original sin and that it has made us all sinners. But that's why Jesus Christ died on the cross for us. To take away our sins and purify us through prayer.

2. Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe is about a man who was completely and underlly insane. He was possessed by evil and eventually let it control every aspect of his life. First he started freaking out about his cat and started becoming agitates by it, the eventually he he hung the cat. He soon after got another and started becoming annoyed with it also, he was about to kill the cat with an ax when his wife saw him and stopped him. Which it probably wasn't the best idea because in return she got her head chopped off with the ax and then was buried inside of a wall in their house with the cat. When the police came to search the house for the woman they didn't find anything until the man hit the wall to show how strong they held up and after foing so a thud noise came which was from the cat. When the wall was torn apart they found both the corps and the cat. They story was very distrubing to me, and I can't see how anyone can be that sick minded. I mean I know people have angre but I can't imagine it being that bad. They are just sick minded.

Transcendentalist that everyone was of puriness and of a good heart. The man in this story was obviously evil. In the story Black Cat the man is apparently evil. He commits evil acts just to commit them. In the text it says, "--hung it because in doing so I knew I was committing a sin--" I hung the it because he knew it was a sin and he wanted to be sinful for no reason, "--to do wrong for the wrong's sake only." Dark Romanticism believed there was evil inside of everyone. This story obviously shows that.

3. The Raven is about a man who is confused because he thinks the bird is of the devil. The man hears a knock on the door in the middle of the night, so he gets up to go see what it was but when he gets to the door there is nothing there. The man then returns to his bed, a moment later the man hears a knock on his window he goes to the window opens it to see what is causing the knocking. As he opened the window a Raven flew in and perched on his door.

When the Raven was sitting perched on his door he says to it, " 'Prophet!" said I, 'thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!'--" This line stood out to me. He thinks that the bird is evil and may be possessed by the devil. This frightens him.

This is an example of the Dark Romanticism because Transcendentalist believe everything is of good blood and pure. They think that the ever creature created by God is good they would never think of a bird of something of the devil.