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Title: Dark Romanticism


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Dark Romanticism
  • This is where it gets weird

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As the second piece to the Romantic movement,
Dark Romanticism explored the potential evil in
the individual.
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Gothicism
  • Middle Ages
  • Literature, art, architecture
  • Ominous settings
  • Psychological stereotypes
  • for characters
  • Themes of anxiety

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Gothic Elements
  • Grotesque, mysterious, desolate
  • Powerful symbolism
  • Extreme situations and settings
  • Focus on characters hearts and/or minds
  • Themes of
  • claustrophobia,
  • projection,
  • entrapment

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Edgar Allan Poe
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1809 - 1849
  • Mother dies, father leaves
  • Lives with Allan family, but never adopted
  • Marries Virginia, his cousin
  • Travel, job instability, alcoholism
  • Virginia dies at 25Poe goes downhill
  • Dies at age 40 in Baltimore

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Poes Writing
  • Truthful, often vicious, editor
  • Worked hard at horror elements to affect reader
  • Created detective story at age 32
  • Very influential (worldwide) and very debated
  • Extreme situations settings to expose true
    human nature

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Poes Works
  • The Raven
  • Annabel Lee
  • Eldorado
  • The Cask of Amontillado
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • The Fall of the House of Usher

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1804 - 1864
  • Father dies early, mother becomes recluse
  • 12 years of intense reading writing
  • Married in his 30s
  • Scarlet Letter cements his popularity
  • Friend to Franklin Pierce, Herman Melville,
    Emerson, Longfellow

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Hawthornes Writings
  • Focus on heart under conditions (greed, betrayal)
    to see important truths
  • Great psychological insight
  • Theme past influencing the present (Puritan
    ancestors)
  • Theme impossibility of erasing sin from human
    heart

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Hawthornes Works
  • Young Goodman Brown
  • Dr. Heidiggers Experiment
  • The Ministers Black Veil
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The House of the Seven Gables

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