Hawthorne Stories
In “The Artist of the Beautiful,” what does Owen Warland spend most of the story trying to create?
A mechanical butterfly
Romanticism values this over logic and reason.
Emotion / imagination
What single word does the bird repeat in “The Raven”?
Nevermore
This branch of Romanticism focuses on human sin, guilt, and evil.
Dark Romanticism
“And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain…”
The Raven
In “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” what is unusual about Beatrice?
She is poisonous / immune to poison / has been made toxic by the plants.
Romantic writers often emphasized the importance of this over the group.
The individual
In “The Black Cat,” what crime does the narrator try to hide?
Murdering his wife / hiding her body in the wall
Gothic literature often includes these elements: terror, death, and the ________.
Supernatural
“There was one shrub in particular, set in a marble vase in the midst of the fountain.”
Rappaccini’s Daughter
Which characters in “Rappaccini’s Daughter” become suspicious of Beatrice’s true nature?
Baglioni and Giovanni
Romanticism often celebrates this as powerful, wild, and beautiful.
Nature
In “The Devil in the Belfry,” what does the devil-like stranger do to disturb the town?
He changes the clock / rings thirteen
Dark Romanticism emphasizes this about human nature.
Human imperfection / the shadow side
“I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.”
The Black Cat
What major theme is explored through Owen’s butterfly in “The Artist of the Beautiful”?
The value of beauty, imagination, and art over practicality
Romanticism rejected this 19th-century trend of factories and efficiency.
Industrialization / modernity
What emotion drives the speaker in “The Raven”?
Grief / sorrow over Lenore
Poe’s works often use madness and guilt to explore this idea.
The darkness of the human mind / moral failure
“To speak plainly, the fellow had, in spite of his grinning, an audacious and sinister kind of face”
The Devil in the Belfry
What from Hawthorne’s life influences his writing about human guilt and flaws?
His Puritan history/ his family’s connection to the Salem Witch Trials
What Era (of art, literature, thought, culture, etc.) does Romanticism follow?
Enlightenment
What theme connects “The Raven” and “The Black Cat”?
Madness, guilt, obsession, or psychological deterioration
Gothic literature is deeply connected to what seven letter word?
Macabre
“He would drive me mad were I to meet him often. His hard, brute force darkens and confuses the spiritual element within me”
The Artist of the Beautiful