The Romantic Period: “The Cask of Amontillado” and “Young Goodman Brown” ENC 1102 The Romantic Movement, which originated in Germany but quickly spread to England, France, and beyond, reached America around the year 1820. Romantic ideas centered around art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth. Art, rather than science, Romantics argued, could best express universal truth. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young …showed first 75 words of 1242 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1242 total…see them. He now hides behind his belief that all of humanity is evil, and that “evil is the way of the world.” Not all stories from the Romantic Movement will contain components from the three categories of the Grotesque, Gothicism, and Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. However, in order for the writing to be considered a Romantic writing, it has to contain at least one device from those three categories. [Word Count 1,262] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**