Kelli Vogel
November 4, 2016


To start class today Mr. Rivers brought up what we learned in class yesterday which was Dark Romanticism. To refresh your memory Dark Romanticism is when the author takes the ideas of romanticism and presents them in a negative tone. A great example of this would have to be Tell Tale Heart by Edger Allen Poe. After refreshing our memories about Dark Romanticism we began analyzing Tell Tale Heart. When we were analyzing we worked with our tables to find positive and negative tones using the Romantic characteristics. For example a negative characteristic in Tell Tale Heart would have to be characteristic number one because there was absolutely no logical reason to kill the old man. Although characteristic number one is negative it can be positive too, for example the man was going with his gut, feeling and reasoning to kill the poor old man. After discussing with our tables we opened it up to the class and had a huge discussion about how one romantic characteristic can be both positive and negative. Although this clip is very creepy and sort of long it helps you understand the dark romanticism of Tell Tale Heart.
  https://youtu.be/wDLLHTdVSgU