Read this Herman Melville excerpt from "Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic."
[I]n the great Sperm Whale, this high and mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified, that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other object in living nature.
Which Dark Romantic theme is reflected in the excerpt?
beauty of the natural world
sinister spirituality
destructive forces of nature
power of the ocean