Southern Gothic Influences

Southern Gothic literature has many of the same aspects as Gothic literature; Southern Gothic literature, which is a sub-genre of the Gothic writing style, is unique to the American South. It focuses on topics such as death, madness, and the super natural as well has having many mystical, bizarre, violent, and grotesque aspects. Gothic literature has left a deep impression to the people. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor wrote stories filled with grotesque characters, violence, and bizarre situations. They made Southern Gothic unique and attracting to readers. These tools are used "to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South
Like “A Good Man is Hard to Find” written Flannery O’ Connor’s. O'Connor never tells the reader directly whether her characters are good or evil; she wants the reader to make his own judgment based on the characters' thoughts, words, and actions. For example, "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." here, It looks like he's recognizing that the grandmother's final act, for which he killed her, was genuinely good. This implies that it was her
confrontation with him, and with death, which made her good. But if the grandmother only became good at that moment, what does it mean to be good? This left a space for people to imagine.
First of all, O'Connor includes several symbols in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." Symbols, elements in a work of fiction that stand for something more profound or meaningful, allow writers to communicate complicated ideas to readers in a work that appears to be simple. For example, skies and weather are always symbolic to O'Connor, and she often uses such descriptions to reveal a character's state of mind. In "A Good Man Is Hard to find," the sky at the end of the story is cloudless and clear, indicating that the Grandmother has died with a clear vision of her place in the world.
Then, The most important point about the setting is that it is representative of the decay of the Old South; the fact that the children have disdain for the state of Georgia, as well as Tennessee, is held in sharp contrast to the pride that the grandmother displays for her native state. The setting allows for a backdrop against which O'Connor can contrast the old values of the South with the decaying sense of pride exhibited in younger generations.
Finally, O'Connor's writing style is generally plain on its surface, yet possesses an underlying irony, subtle foreshadowing, and surprise.
First and most obvious is the irony between the grandmother and the Misfit. On its face, the grandmother appears to be a "normal" Southern lady who upholds traditional Christianity. Yet, it quickly becomes clear that the grandmother is not necessarily honest or respectful, while the Misfit embodies all of these traits. On the other hand, Readers are introduced to a quirky family and what appears to be a typical family car trip, but the story ends on a more philosophical note when the Grandmother attains a state of grace at the moment she realizes that the murderer is "one of her children." So, I like the plot of the story and
language.
The same concern was also “The fall of the house of Usher,” which written Edgar Allan Poe. There are some elements in his story.
The first, Sanity and Insanity: Poe uses the theme of insanity vs. insanity, and all the nuances in between, in many of his short stories, often charging his insane narrators with the futile task of proving that they are not mad. For example, "True! - Nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" this is very clear description of the theme.
Second, under the Point of View; Told from the point of view of an unnamed first-person narrator, this story does not use the unreliable narrator technique to expose unbelievable or horrific events. Instead, the narrator is more of an observer at first, bringing the reader along as he encounters the gloom and desperation of both the House of Usher and its inhabitants. As he stays in the house, he is drawn deeper into the spell of the house and his nervousness increases, as does the reader's.
Finally, the Setting is very clear in his story. Set in the dreary, woeful House of Usher, much of this story's tone and feeling of claustrophobic nervousness comes from its settings. The action takes place solely in the house in which the Ushers have sustained their illnesses of body and mind, and these close quarters seem to affect all who come in contact with them. So, I also admire his story.
Overall, Gothic literature advocating and exploring human nature which far more than the description of terrorism and bloody. The cycle of life and death to explore the true meaning of this literature has been through in style. In a sense, Gothic literature does not really die. It represents the people want their identity and eager to return to humanity.