Journal 21: Darkness

The dark romanticism is a bit different from the traditional romanticism. The difference between the two groups grants them the name of anti-transcendentalists or dark romanticists because transcendentalists are people who embodies romanticism ideals and dark romanticists are called anti-transcendentalists. Dark Romanticism is often conflated with Gothicism or called American Romanticism. It is a literary subgenre of the romanticism because it is not a huge difference from the genre of the Romanticism style. It has been suggested that Dark Romantics present individuals as prone to sin and self-destruction, not as inherently possessing divinity and wisdom. In The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker and his wife is portrayed as having the vice of greediness. Wife is more greedy than Tom Walker so when she first met the Devil, she never returned. Then Tom, after accepting Devil's deal becoming a loaner with huge interest rate that destroys one's financial stability became filthy rich but the money he earned aren't from a good source. He shouldn't do this because this is a dirty way of earning money. However, because of Tom's greediness portrayed by Edgar, the author, he becomes the loaner. Then, we was taken by the devil because of his bad deeds.