What did the archetype of the devil usually symbolize in american romantic literature?

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the first choice "the greed, cruelty, and dishonesty of society"

Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.