1. Journal: Create a very short story (5 – 7 sentences) that explains the character depicted. Think: Why is she sitting like this? What is the tone of the picture? Make sure you use the same tone in your short story!

2. This is where it gets weird…
Dark Romanticism
This is where it gets weird…

3. As the second piece to the Romantic movement, Dark
Romanticism explores the
potential evil in the
individual.

4. Characters Characters are fueled by anxiety and guilt.
Characters are in psychological or physical torment.

5. Settings Bleak or remote places Ominous (something bad is coming…)
Large, drafty old houses that have "been in the family for years." 

6. Plot Morbid or violent incidents
A supernatural or otherworldly element is often present. (Think: ghosts, doors that open themselves, unexplained sounds, etc.)

7. Gothic Elements Grotesque, mysterious, desolate
Atmosphere of mystery and suspense
Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams
Highly charged emotional states like:  terror, a feeling that one is on the brink of insanity, anger, agitation, an exaggerated feeling of some impending doom, and obsessive love.
Words designed to evoke images of gloom and doom: dark, foreboding, forbidding, ghostly, etc.

8. Main Ideas Triumph of evil over good
Inevitability of sin and guilt in humanity
Perverse and self-destructive nature of mankind
Extremes of individualism

9. What about this image makes it
Dark Romantic?

10. What about this image makes it
Dark Romantic?

11. What about this image makes it
Dark Romantic?

12. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)

13. “A Bible of Fear” Born in Boston, Massachusetts
Mother dies, father leaves
Lives with Allan family, but never adopted
Marries Virginia, his 13 year-old cousin (not as weird as it is today).
Travel, job instability, alcoholism
Virginia dies at 25…Poe goes downhill
Dies at age 40 in Baltimore (The cause of his death is unknown and has been attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.)

14. Careers
Joined the U.S. military; eventually, attended West Point for a short time until he found a way to be dismissed.
He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

15. Poe’s Writing A truthful, often vicious, editor
Worked hard at horror elements to affect reader
Created detective story at age 32 (“Murders in the Rue Morgue”)
Very influential (worldwide) and very debated
Wrote about extreme situations & settings to expose true human nature

16. Poe’s Works “The Raven” “Annabel Lee” “The Black Cat”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Fall of the House of Usher”

17. Nathaniel hawthorne (1804 – 1864)

18. A Biography Born in Salem, Massachusetts (related to Judge Hathorne)
Father dies early, mother becomes recluse
12 years of intense reading & writing
Added a “w” to his last name
Married in his 30s
Scarlet Letter cements his popularity
Friend to Franklin Pierce, Herman Melville, Emerson, Longfellow

19. Hawthorne’s writing Cautionary tales
Suggest that sin, guilt, and evil are the most natural human qualities
Inspired by Puritans

20. Hawthorne’s Works “Young Goodman Brown” “Dr. Heidigger’s Experiment”
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
“The Birth-mark”
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables

21. View… View “The Life of Vincent Malloy” by Tim Burton
Reflection: How is “Vincent” an example of Dark Romanticism?