Romantic Elements Of Gothic Literature

In many of Poe’s and other authors poems throughout the 1700’s and beyond, created a particular style of writing: romanticism. With the use of romanticism, these authors manage to create aspects of mood with different feeling and emotions that 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
As an example, as Tom enters the swamp it becomes quite apparent how sickly and overgrown the swamp is as he describes it as “---where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire”(Irving 322) showing exactly how corrupt and sickly the swamp sounds and looks, adding very much to the mood of the Gothic text. Another example would be the Irving’s further description of the swamp, saying “It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed the traveler into a gulf of black, smothering mud”(Irving 322) also showing the desperation of the swamp and the people who mistakenly emigrate forthwith into what seems to be a swamp full of things unexpected. The use of this morbid scenery helps surmise the mood of sickness and desperation, which helps towards the morbid mood of Gothic
For example, in “the Black Cat” he tells of 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 Literature.
Concluding, with the extensive use of psychological issues, death, and grotesque scenery throughout the three stories, a morbid mood is created in these examples of Gothic literature as the authors used brilliant diction and function within the works of which helped create this morbid