Herman Melville

Herman Melville didn't believe in Transcendentalism, because he wittnesses cannibalism and does not think everyone is good and pure. In Herman Melville book "Moby Dick," Ahab the main character is selfish, sacrificing his entire ship and the men on it in order to obsessively find the whale who eat's his leg. Ahab is not pure in mind or innocent, he believes in Dark Romantism.