In Edgar Allen Poe’s, “The Man of the Crowd” and “Ligeia”, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, “Young Goodman Brown,” there is a constant presence of darkness throughout each text. The darkness displayed in these works allude to the ongoing theme of the ambiguity of sin. Both authors, Poe and Hawthorne, are considered to be Dark Romantics because they both center their works around the conflict between good and evil in every individual and showcase the dark side of human nature. In using elements from Dark
