Tenets of Dark Romanticism

•Rejected the use of scientific and technological advancements.

•Individualism: the spirit of the individual has a set of laws unto which they set upon themselves. It is important that the individual fought for their noble cause rather than to win.

•Gothic themes: the use of dark elements like the supernatural, mystery, horror and death.

•Focus on the tragic

•Attentive towards the mysterious

•Reverence for the darkness of human nature and its struggles

•Imagination or ones intuition over logic

•Folktales

•Large belief in sin and evil