LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Nature is dark and mysterious.
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People are sinful.
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Supernatural elements.
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Positive about human potential.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dark Romanticism focuses on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Whenever Bartleby’s boss asks him to do something, he simply responds with, “I would prefer not to, ” showing no sense of concern to potentially being fired from his job (1490). This defiance displays a common theme in Dark Romantic writing of the shunning of civilization.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many consider American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville to be the major Dark Romantic authors.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Scarlet Letter. The Fall of the House of Usher. Because I Could Not Stop for Death. A Descent Into the Maelstrom. The Minister’s Black Veil. Emily Dickinson. Bartleby, the Scrivener.