Essay On Gothic Literature

In many of Poe’s and other authors poems throughout history, they created a particular style of writing: romanticism. With the use of romanticism, these authors booned their stories/poems with aspects of mood with diction that helps convey darker themes. The elements of Gothic Literature in the short stories the “Black Cat,” “the Devil and Tom Walker,” and Sharp Objects create a morbid mood through the usage of grotesque scenery, psychological issues, and death.
To begin, in the “Black Cat” and Sharp Objects death is taken lightly with the characters standoffishness towards deaths they heard of or murders they committed; before this happened these characters were psychologically abhorred due to past experiences, which evidently took place in Sharp Objects where Camille was exposed to very gruesome objects during her childhood. For example, in the “Black Cat” after murdering his wife, he nonchalantly thinks about doing things
Provided anathor example, in “the Black Cat” he tells himself of how he is “wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere humanity, and a brute beast”(Poe 5) while saying in another way that “Evil thoughts were my sole intimates--- the darkest and most evil of thoughts”(Poe 5) truly showing the extent of his psychological afflictions and how deeply they affect his being. In Sharp Objects, she most clearly states that “as a knife-wielding first grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh”(Flynn 60) representing that she recognizes those issues that string so deep, but yet she in some ways denies the existence of this atrophy. Wrapping up this paragraph, it's is safely decided that through the use of psychological issues assimilate morbid mood is heavily represented and well used throughout this example of Gothic