This sub-division of Romanticism reinforced inner darkness as heroes experienced diverse horrors like “perverse impulses, nightmarish terrors, obsessions” (Campbell, 2014) exposing a psychological turmoil within the human mind already collapsing between an irrational state and inevitable madness. In the same way, the emphasis was in causing terror upon the mind by portraying dark atmospheres, introducing supernatural elements, and the depiction of shadowy landscapes and sinister castles (Gottesman et al., 1979). In similar fashion, other characteristics included macabre events difficult for the protagonist to comprehend, with isolating settings in both space and time, and situations in which a supernatural manifestation seems to cause problems the protagonist because distrusts the evidence of that manifestation (Campbell,
This sub-division of Romanticism reinforced inner darkness as heroes experienced diverse horrors like “perverse impulses, nightmarish terrors, obsessions” (Campbell, 2014) exposing a psychological turmoil within the human mind already collapsing between an irrational state and inevitable madness. In the same way, the emphasis was in causing terror upon the mind by portraying dark atmospheres, introducing supernatural elements, and the depiction of shadowy landscapes and sinister castles (Gottesman et al., 1979). In similar fashion, other characteristics included macabre events difficult for the protagonist to comprehend, with isolating settings in both space and time, and situations in which a supernatural manifestation seems to cause problems the protagonist because distrusts the evidence of that manifestation (Campbell,