Moral Corruption In The Devil And Tom Walker, And The Black Cat

What kind of morals do you have, Good or bad? A quote from H. L Mencken, “Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told”, these are good morals. Now, not all people have good morality; others do not have good morals but corrupted ones. Moral corruption is when someone is not good, bad, or evil to the core. Romantic Literature is nothing about romance, passion, or anything about love. Around the 18th and 19th century, Romantic Literature was more gothic They were meant to be more gloomy and suspenseful. They can also be haunting and depressing. In these three stories, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “The Devil and Tom Walker”, and “The Black Cat” all have the Romantic Characteristic of Moral Corruption. One of the characters or more can be morally corrupt depending on how. To first start off with, Ichabod Crane has a bit of moral corruption, Around the beginning of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, Ichabod talks about the girl he likes young girl name, Katrina. He also talks …show more content…
To begin with, Tom got home after visiting the devil. He told his wife that the devil offered him a deal of a hidden treasure. “All her avarice was awakened at the mention of the hidden gold, and she urged her husband to comply with the black man’s terms and secure what would make them wealthy for life. However Tom might have felt disposed to sell himself to the devil, he was determined not to do so to his wife, so he flatly refused out of the mere spirit of contradiction”(Irving 233). In the story, the couple doesn't love each other like they used to before; except she hates him more than he hates her. She’s basically telling him to sell his soul, so she can have the money to herself. Do you know anyone that's seriously that bad from the core like that? To summarize things up,moral corruption can be found in the story of “The Devil and Tom Walker”. Tom Walker’s wife is proven to have moral