Gothic Elements Research Paper

Gothic Elements Gothic elements are evident in a wide variety of literary works. Gothic literature writers, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving, as well as modern writers, such as Ransom Riggs encapsulate gothic elements such as revenge, psychological issues, and pain. These elements are demonstrated through the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, and “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs and “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe both use the gothic element of pain. Miss Peregrine, the headmaster of children with peculiar abilities, from Miss Peregrine’s
Revenge can come to one who is deserving of it, or one can inflict revenge onto another. In “The Devil and Tom Walker”, Tom Walker, a greedy, corrupt man who does deals with the devil that hurt the community, is the recipient of revenge. People felt he deserved to be punished so bad they did not feel guilty when “two skeletons lay in his stable instead of his half-starved horses, and the very next day his great house took fire and burnt to the ground” (Irving 332). Tom Walker was such a corrupt person that the community was happy when it was “the end of Tom Walker and his ill-gotten wealth” (Irving 332). On the contrary, in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the children sought revenge on to the monster who kidnapped and abused their headmaster. The children felt they “[had] to hit them before they know [the children] know they’re there” (Riggs 283) in order to make the monster pay for his actions. The children felt the monster deserved what consequences would come for it, just as the townspeople believed Tom Walker deserved the consequences he