Dark Romanticism in the Black Cat

I thought that the story was disgusting, while at the same time interesting. In the story the main character gives in to his the darkest urges within him. By doing this he essentially makes himself seem insane. At one point he says the he went “into a rage more than demoniacal”, at which point he slammed an axe into his wife’s head.

The Black cat shows how Dark Romanticism disagrees with Transcendentalism throughout the story. The story tells the tail of a man giving into the evil inside him and going insane. The Transcendentalists don’t believe in evil or insanity. They believe that people are pure and without fault. At one point in the story the main character, upon being bitten by his cat after he had grabbed it violently, proceeded to “deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!” I’d say that that would be pretty evil and possibly insane, thus illustrating how Dark Romantics disagree with Transcendentalists.