Romanticism Vs Transcendentalism
Imagine living a World of darkness, dominated by obscurity without being able to show your feelings, emotions commiting sins behind a obscure wall that stops you from enjoying the emotions, and beauty of life.
The Dark Romanticism era is primarily characterized by the 19th century literary movement. It is popularly known as a 2th gender of the larger Romanticism Movement. This is because it retains, and exposes several of the characteristics associated with it such as transcendentalism, and romanticism. In the 18th century, and early 19th in America the transcendentalism movement started to gain representation. The basic philosophy of the movement was a belief in the human’s spirituals essences and their soul’s ability to transcend into the …show more content…
They still referred to nature, but sometimes in a dark, and a bit scary way. Gothic elements of the supernatural as manifestations of truth and human conscience were also common in the writings of the Dark Romanticists.
The Dark Romantics people are much less confident about the notion perfection is an innate quality of mankind, as believed by Transcendentalists. Subsequently, Dark Romantics present individuals as prone to sin and self-destruction, not as inherently possessing divinity and wisdom Mr. Thompson describes this disagreement, stating while Transcendental thought conceived of the world in which divinity was imminent, the Dark Romantics adapted images of anthropomorphized evil in the form of Satan, devils, ghosts … vampires, and ghouls.
In addition, both groups believed that nature is a deeply spiritual force, and that Dark Romanticism views it in a much more sinister light than does Transcendentalism, which sees nature as a divine and universal. For these Dark Romantics, the natural world is dark, decaying, and mysterious when it does reveal truth to the man kind, its revelations are evil and hell. Finally, where Transcendentalism advocates social reform when is appropriate, works of Dark Romanticism frequently shown individuals failing in their attempts to make changes for the
The Dark Romanticism era is primarily characterized by the 19th century literary movement. It is popularly known as a 2th gender of the larger Romanticism Movement. This is because it retains, and exposes several of the characteristics associated with it such as transcendentalism, and romanticism. In the 18th century, and early 19th in America the transcendentalism movement started to gain representation. The basic philosophy of the movement was a belief in the human’s spirituals essences and their soul’s ability to transcend into the …show more content…
They still referred to nature, but sometimes in a dark, and a bit scary way. Gothic elements of the supernatural as manifestations of truth and human conscience were also common in the writings of the Dark Romanticists.
The Dark Romantics people are much less confident about the notion perfection is an innate quality of mankind, as believed by Transcendentalists. Subsequently, Dark Romantics present individuals as prone to sin and self-destruction, not as inherently possessing divinity and wisdom Mr. Thompson describes this disagreement, stating while Transcendental thought conceived of the world in which divinity was imminent, the Dark Romantics adapted images of anthropomorphized evil in the form of Satan, devils, ghosts … vampires, and ghouls.
In addition, both groups believed that nature is a deeply spiritual force, and that Dark Romanticism views it in a much more sinister light than does Transcendentalism, which sees nature as a divine and universal. For these Dark Romantics, the natural world is dark, decaying, and mysterious when it does reveal truth to the man kind, its revelations are evil and hell. Finally, where Transcendentalism advocates social reform when is appropriate, works of Dark Romanticism frequently shown individuals failing in their attempts to make changes for the