Critique___Three_Romantic_Literature_Pieces

Critique : Three Romantic Literature Pieces Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne believed that humans held a large dark side beneath their exteriors. Most romantic writers thought that people were good inside and could eventually reach “godlike” status, either through destiny or good deeds. Hawthorne and Poe, in their short stories, “The Hollow and the Three Hills,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Imp of the Perverse,” trace the effects of secret sin and guilt in their main characters. “The Hollow and the Three Hills” is a story about a woman who has a secret sin and for some unknown reason likes to revisit it. She comes to a witch in a hollow between three hills and asks the witch to allow her to revisit her sin. In “The Black Cat,” the narrator of the story kills his feline friend, Pluto. This devastates him after he realizes what he has done, and quickly degrades his state of mind until he becomes completely insane. Finally, in “The Imp of the Perverse,” the narrator contemplates murdering a man. He thinks for months on a way to do it, and finally reads about a case of a poison candle. He commits narrator, cat, sin, secret, about, woman, becomes, guilt, three, revisit, poe, pluto, place, hollow, hills, wife, thinks, next, insane, goes, finally, comes, witch, way, walls, very, things, perverse, man, kills, imp, hawthorne, guilty, good