Examples Of Dark Romanticism

As a reaction to the Transcendental movement of the nineteenth century, where the perspective switched from rationalism to dark, imaginative, and intuitive, Dark Romanticism emerged. The authors Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe are just a few who have eloquently illustrated how Dark Romanticism concentrates on how dark humanity can be with its self-destructive, judgmental, vengeful, imaginative, and psychological effects of guilt and sin. Dark Romanticism mainly uses literary techniques such as imagery, symbolism, metaphor, allegory, and personification. However, the big one widely used as a significant part of the story would be symbolism because it often represents supernatural beings such as devils or spirits. Examples of some of these literary devices are used in Hawthorne's novel, the manga version, The Scarlet Letter, where Pearl's character is an example of allegory because it provides the consequences of Hester and Dimmsdale's sin and guilt, which are

The works of Hawthorne and Poe can attest to this since in The Scarlet Letter; the topic is one of sin and guilt because of the Hester and Dimmsdale affair, for which Hester was found guilty along with Dimmsdale. This is also illustrated in The Raven by the speaker's self-destruction due to his inability to function in society due to losing Lenore, where his grief progresses into madness and eventually insanity. Furthermore, the tension used in Dark Romanticism focuses on emotion and extremity with a gothic sensibility to build up tension in their stories, and this is illustrated through the works of Poe and Hawthorne, where it always leaves the readers questioning what happened at the end of the