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The Dark Romantics Challenge to the Transcendentalists A Dark Romantic View Who Were the Dark Romantics? Who Were the Transcendentalists? Differences Between Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics Similarities Between Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804–1864) Hawthorne’s short stories and novels reflect Dark Romantic views of humanity. In “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” four people drink a magical elixir and choose the foolishness of false youth over the wisdom of age and experience. In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” a Puritan minister decides to wear a black veil for the rest of his life to represent the universality of sorrow and secret sin. The novel The Scarlet Letter tells a story of sin and redemption and explores the evil of hypocrisy. Herman Melville(1819–1891) Herman Melville’s short stories and novels also reflect a Dark Romantic view of nature and humanity. In the novel Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab doubts whether there is any real truth or meaning behind the appearances of nature. In “Bartleby the Scrivener,” a lawyer watches his copyist withdraw completely from the material world. Edgar Allan Poe(1809–1849) Poe’s masterful short stories told tales of madness, revenge, and tragic fate. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the mad narrator takes deadly revenge on a man who insulted him. In the classic horror tale “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the narrator barely escapes a horrible death in a dark dungeon. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a man commits murder and is driven to confess by the imaginary beating of the dead man’s heart. The Dark Romantic Legacy Dark Romantic themes still appear in stories, books, movies, TV shows, and comic books. Present-day horror stories and movies borrow images and themes from the original master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe. The conflict between good and evil and the effects of guilt and sin are major themes in current literature, popular writing, and television. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of th