Dark Romanticism

Task 1:




I think that it is a little bit of both, I think that all people have potential to be good and bad. I think it is the choices that you make, but there is always a little voice in your head telling you the right thing to do. So I think a little bit of both is true. That not all people are good some choose to take a bad path in life.









Task 2:

read the black cat

Task 3:

The Black cat was a very dark story, but it started out as the guy lovign animals and havign this cat that he oh so very loved. Then one day he just hated it and cut one of its eyes out. Then a couple days latter he had another weird crazy spell and hung the cat, he started seeing some aparations of the cat he killed. Then one day he finds another cat and it looked almost exactally like his old cat, he took it home and once again started hating it. While trying to kill the cat he killed his wife and then he almost got away with it, but the cat was in the wall he had put his wife, and started meowing.

I think that this is defenitaly a dark romantic piece of writing because the hate came out of him, his intuition, he didnt really expect it. The dark Romatics believed that not everyone is pure because people do have bad thoughts and the transcendentalism thought is that everyone is pure and all your thoguth are directly from god and you should act upon them. But the Dark Romantics say that that is not true because if we acted on all of are thoughts lots of bad things would happen, because not all thoughts are pure.

Task 4.

read the raven

Task 5:

I really like the raven as a piece of literature it really speaks out to you and is easy enought to understand. It is romantic because you have to have imagination the think that the bird is talking to you and is actually there. I think personally that the raven is nto real and it is a fragment of his imagination, telling him that he will never get over his loss and he will never be happy agian and so on and so forth. But the way that that is Dark Romantic is because it is his mind telling him that he wont get over it and he wont be happy and that right there is not a very pure and helpful thought for the person it is bad and unencuraging. So that kind of wipes out the whole god speaks through the thoughts and everything is pure. The part that I think is weird is when the bird lands on the athena statue and says nevermore, therefore saying you will have no wisdom again you will basically drive yurself insane over the lost of lenore. But i enjoying reading the raven.