Comparing Minister's Black Veil And The Raven

“The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe were wrote in the Dark Romanticism Period. Dark Romanticism is a literary subgenre of Romantic Literature that emerged from the transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America. So, what is the characteristics of Dark Romanticism? The characteristics of the Dark Romanticism are the belief in sin and evil, the struggles of human nature, and the focus on the tragic. The dark romantic view countered the optimism of transcendental writers.
To begin with, Hawthorne and Poe have a similar beliefs. Both Dark Romantics, Hawthorne and Poe, sometimes called Gothic, were found the darkness and evil in those same aspects, with evil taking over the
The satire of the story shows how the minister always wearing a veil. It seems to be very foolish to the people, but he continues to wear it. The black veil represents how we all have sins and we are hiding, so we should cover our faces too. However, in “The Raven,” Poe take the raven as a symbol of somber and dead. Poe does not use the satire because Poe express his feelings in the poem. Moreover, the diction that Hawthorne and Poe uses the words like ghastly, gaunt, plutonian, evil, devil, tremulous hand, and death-like paleness make the story/ poem sound scarier and gloomy.
In conclusion, Dark Romanticism was popular in the nineteenth-century in America. The most common themes of Dark Romanticism works involve the subject matter of the conflict between good and evil. Both Hawthorne and Poe, in “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “The Raven,” became known as Dark Romantics because they tended to view the world as egotistical rather than optimistic. They had a fascination for the mysterious, supernatural, and the Gothic. Their philosophical perspective is supernatural and melancholy