... how is it perceived differently? Evil is profoundly immoral and/or malevolent and occurs when someone knows what they are doing is wrong and continue to do so. Dark Romantic authors like Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne use gothic elements in order to portray the dark and gloomy undertones of the psyche of the stories' characters, and through the characters ... believes that all of human nature is seemingly immoral and malicious, where Hawthorne believes that human nature is not necessarily all bad, but there are dark aspects to it. Both authors use Dark Romantics to establish st...

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