Dark Romanticism

Herman Melville- No he was not pure because he wasn't using his own mind. He was possessed by the evilness and they told him to kill the whale and the men aboard his ship and he did as he was told.

Edgar Allen Poe- Poe would be against it also because he also goes with what his mid tells him and not what he tells himself. The evilness was telling him to hang that cat and take its eye out so he did it and was crying while doing it. And if he had of been going with his one instinct then he wouldn't have done it anyway.

I could see myself as a trascendentalist because if i thought about killing someone or even harmign someone i would ask myself why do i want to do this? Do i have a good reason for this? and many other questions like that.

The book i chose to read was Black Cat and the way i think that this book proves to be part of Dark Romanticism is because in this book the man felt that he was possessed by evilness. But at first he was just an ordinary man who loved animals, he got married to a woman that loved animals as much as he did. Then all of a sudden he had became an alcoholic and had started neglecting his animals, all except one his cat Pluto. But one day he came home drunk and picked the cat up by his neck and the cat bit him the reason he picked the cat up like that was because he felt that the cat was neglecting him. So his evilness told him to take the cat eye out because it had bit him. But while he was taking the cat eye out he was crying, it was like he had feelings but his mind had been taken over by some evil spirits so he had no idea what he was doing. Then he hung the cat just because the evil spirits had told him to and while he was hanging the cat he was crying. But after he hung the cat his house had burned down so he went back to see what damages were done to his house and as he walked around he saw that the wall where his headboard of his bed was was still up and then he saw shadow of the cat the he had hung. So he had told hisself that he would stop drinking but it didn't last long because he ended up at a bar where he ad saw another cat that looke just like the one he had killed. So it followed him home and when they got to his house the cat fell in love with his wife but once he became sober he started to realize that he didn't really like that cat and that it had a white spot on its chest. So he tried to his best so saty away from yhe cat but it continued to follow him where ever he went so it had got to the point where he want to punch the cat but he didn't. So one day he was cleaning up their cellar and he had got an wxe and was about to kill the cat but his wife stopped him and he killed her by hitting her in the head with the axe. So after he killed her her he put her in the wall of the cellar so that nobody could tell that she was even dead. And then the police came and searched his house and he started telling on hisself and they took the wall down and found that he had put the cat in the wall also with his wife.

The way this realtes to Dark Romanticism:
Evilness is one of the main characteritics of mankind.

Raven-
I think in this poem Poe was trying his best to be a trascendatlist because he was asking the bird all types of questions about his wife dying and why he kept coming to his window. But i think deep down inside that he wanted to kill the bird because it wouldn't tell him what he wanted to know. The part that stuck out to me was that the bird wouldn't leave when he asked him to

Direct Quote:
"But the Raven sitting lonely on the placid budt spoke only that one word as if his soul in that one word he did outpour nothing farther then he uttered not a feather then he fluttered till i scarcely more than muttered other friends have flown befire on the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said nevermore.