Literature 8 August 2012 Gothic Literature: The Fascination with Terror People have an intrinsic fear of the dark and the unknown. While each person’s level of anxiety and object of terror are different‚ the fascination to reveal them has inspired Gothic authors such as Mary Shelley‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ Stephen King‚ and Stephenie Meyer for three centuries. Subjects of these classic tales include vampires‚ reanimation of the dead‚ ghosts‚ murder‚ witches‚ and love. These stories and poems can terrify
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Gothic literature‚ writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery‚ startling‚ and melodramatic narrative devices‚ and an overall atmosphere of exoticism‚ mystery‚ and dread‚ was an extremely popular genre and still is today. It was so popular that authors like Flannery O’Conner and William Faulkner tried to imitate Gothic literature in his stories. Faulkner’s short-story‚ “A Rose for Emily” is disputable when it comes to fitting in with Gothic literature‚ but here’s why it clearly does. The
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The movie Psycho‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ is a classic horror film which combines many gothic elements into a deep and intriguing story. One of the gothic elements in the film is the masculine gothic theme. The son‚ Norman Bates‚ is the perfect representation of the masculine gothic theme incorporating things such as a male being dominated by a woman and victimizing the heroine. The classic gothic theme of murder is also incorporated into the film. Norman Bates mother murders are heroin in
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Farah Khawar Professor Brown English 131- Section 12 24 November 2014 “The Story of an Hour” Literary Analysis Essay Kate Chopin had many great works that many readers enjoyed reading because of her distinctive use of literary elements that would capture her reader’s attention instantly throughout the story. Amongst many of Kate Chopin’s most impressive works is the short story titled “The Story of an Hour”. Her short story portrays the importance of using literary affects to convey an overall astonishing
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Kathryn Ryan CFII/Brosh Cloisters Paper Medieval Art is characterized largely by the use of both Gothic and Romanesque architecture. As Christianity was highly significant to the middle ages‚ much of said architectural design is exemplified in the cathedrals of the time. Romanesque and Gothic architecture differ greatly from one another‚ as is displayed in a comparison of a Gothic chapel and a Romanesque chapel. The Cloisters Museum and Gardens: the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted
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Female Characters in Gothic Texts Gothic fiction has become a popular area for feminist studies. Many commentators have noticed how females in Gothic fiction often fall into one of two categories: the trembling and innocent victim or the shameless and dangerous predator. However‚ others have noticed how women writers have often used the Gothic to explore aspects of femininity and sexuality. The mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre has become a key symbol of Gothic feminism. The persecuted maiden
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term ‘gothic’? How far and in what ways is ‘Frankenstein’ a gothic text? Gothic literature‚ which is sometimes referred to as Gothic horror‚ is a genre that links horror and romance into one tale of ‘transgressing the boundaries’. Gothicism was unheard of until the late 1700’s‚ this movement into a new genre of literature. This was pioneered by the English author Horace Walpole‚ in his famous fictional book ‘The Castle of Otranto’‚ or as Walpole alternatively titled it ‘a Gothic story’. Horace
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GCSE Choices Booklet September 2015 R ainham M ark G rammar S chool O:\Booklets\GCSE Choices Booklet 2015.doc 1 Choices for GCSE‚ Years 10 - 11 Moving into Year 10‚ from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4‚ is an important stage in your educational career. This is the first time you will have had the opportunity to exercise some choice over your programme of study. Before this‚ everything you have studied will have been determined for you. Now you will have a chance to select some elements in your programme
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Gothic Elements in The Cask of Amontillado By: Harshul Jain The Cask of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known for using Gothic conventions in his stories which mostly includes the atmosphere of mystery‚ oppressiveness to create terror but interestingly he subverts the Gothic conventions by having having human beings‚ instead of a supernatural element‚ create most horrible deeds. Poe tries to achieve that horror via the capabilities of the humans. Poe uses unreliable
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