Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto‚ is acknowledged by many as the first gothic novel. It was the first of it’s kind and many of the conventions used by Walpole‚ which put it in a literary genre of it’s own‚ were continued by authors such as Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. Many of these defining characteristics can be seen within the very first few pages of the text and for the purposes of this essay‚ to identify some of these conventions used and the relevance of this text to modernity I shall
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a travelogue written by a melancholic‚ passionate and expressive tourist. Byron wrote this poem on his travels trough Spain‚ Portugal‚ Albania‚ Greece‚ Belgium‚ Switzerland‚ the Alps and Italy. The hero of the poem‚ Childe (an ancient term for a young noble awaiting knighthood) Harold is a young extremely emotional man who turns away from the regular society and humanity and wanders through life caring the heavy guilt of mysterious vices
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Ever (AG). SUMMARY STATEMENT The Watsons Family which has a mother named Wilona‚ a father named Daniel‚ an eldest son named Byron‚ a middle named Kenny‚ and the youngest child Joetta live in Flint‚ Michigan and go to Birmingham‚ Alabama. The oldest son‚ Byron‚ is a juvenile delinquent¨ and needs the guidance of their strict grandmother‚ Grandma Sands‚ to straighten out Byron. Also‚ when the family heads to the south they realize that there is racial discrimination towards African Americans which leads
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are always doing weird things. The Watson family is made up of five people Mom/ Wilona‚ Dad/ Daniel‚ Big Brother/ Byron‚ Little Brother/ Kenny‚ and Little Sister/Joetta. Byron thinks he is all that‚ and bullies Kenny and Joetta and the rest of the school. He also disobeys his parents and one day went out and got his hair dyed.The bullying gets so bad that Mom and Dad decide to take Byron to Milonas strict mother to shapen him up. The whole family is excited to go to Birmingham in their car AKA The
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whether they like one sex or the other. In the story‚ “Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight‚” written by Alison Baker‚ Zach had spent a lot of years knowing that he wanted to be a woman. Byron‚ a friend from work‚ was not ready to see his friend have a sex change or accept that he was a homosexual. Through the story‚ Byron goes through different emotions and even goes as far as trying to be a little more metro sexual himself. He finds that even though having a sex change is not for him‚ that it could possibly
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later on. Byron wrote Darkness in 1816‚ known as The Year Without a Summer. It was a 3 year weather disaster which occurred when dust from the eruption of Mt. Tambora in 1815 has spread throughout the globe‚ and blocked the sunlight. And thus with no sunlight‚ the years 1815-1817 had no summer. This led to devastating worldwide harvest failures‚ leading to famine‚ and civil unrest which is what the surface of this poem is based on. As being written in the romantic era‚ Byron vividly describes
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prized by keats‚ shelley and Byron‚ all of whom took the technical side of writing poetry extremely seriously. Lord Byron describes a night (associated with darkness) with bright stars (light) and compares this woman to that night. She brings together these opposites in her beauty and creates a "tender light." Not a light like the daytime‚ since he describes that as gaudy (showy in a vulgar way)‚ but a light that "heaven" doesn’t even honor the daytime with. Byron¡¯s diction in this poem is quite
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lines‚ Byron express that the woman walks in beauty like a cloudless and starring night‚ that is‚ the woman is beautiful as a starring night is‚ too. This is the first time that the theme of darkness appears (in night)‚ contrary to the light which is expressed by the stars of the sky. That opposition is repeated along the three stanzas of the poem‚ because the author is talking about the beauty and that opposition is used to express it‚ to compare the opposition with beauty. In that sense‚ Byron feels
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THE 18TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS -From 1775 til 1763 was the American War of Independence. 1780 was an uprising called “The Gordon Riots” in London; they were an anti-Catholic uprising against the Papists Act of 1778. -Then followed the French Revolution. 1789 was the fall of Bastille and 1793 was the Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. France declared war against Britain. 1804 Napoleon was crowned emperor. -Industrial Revolution: James Watt perfected the steam engine and 1776 the first
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