Abstract
A child in Romantic literature is not just a character but a subject which stimulates common interest because of its ambiguous associations, stirring curiosity and, often, anxiety. These emotions are caused by the enormous potential of meanings imprinted in the symbolic functions of such a character. A Romantic child is clearly ambivalent: sensitivity, innocence, naivety, purity, life, hope (and other) are counterbalanced by the features that give rise to anxiety. A child may have demonic features, a death stamp, a hidden sickness, or it may be cursed. All that should remind the readers about an inherent ambiguity of human nature. A child in Romanticism may be an emanation of diabolic forces, which are difficult to recognise, but which people often succumb to. In numerous texts of this period, a child is an alter ego of adults, showing a dark side of their lives, and unwanted truth about human nature.
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