Poe’s Devices for Heightening the Effect of Terror and Horror in Short Stories (Martynova Ann) Edgar Allan Poe‚ an American poet‚ critic and writer of the XIX-th century‚ is a world- recognised master of the horror genre. Poe’s Tales of Arabesque clearly demonstrate his talent for cultivation of mystery‚ terror‚ and macabre. The process of this horror cultivation is very subtle and complicated. Poe‚ like an artist of arabesque who intertwines and interlaces flowers into an elaborate pattern‚
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power and greed. This tragedy can be classified by one of two theories. One theory suggests that the tragic hero‚ Macbeth‚ is led down an unescapable road of doom by an outside force; namely the three witches. The second suggests that there is no supernatural force working against Macbeth‚ which therefore makes him responsible for his own actions and inevitable downfall. Macbeth is indeed responsible for his own actions which are provoked by Lady Macbeth‚ the witches‚ his ambition‚ and an unwillingness
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a normal priority for children in both the time of Shakespeare and ancient Greece. Found within Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and E.M. Berne’s book Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome‚ there are two specific children whom bore similar childhood experiences and and faced important life tasks once they were of appropriate age. Prospero’s daughter Miranda‚ from The Tempest‚ and Polydectes’s adopted son Perseus‚ from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome‚ face similar life circumstances
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Daniel Defoe tells tale of a marooned individual in order to criticize society. By using the Island location‚ similar to that of Shakespeare’s The Tempest‚ Defoe is able to show his audience exactly what is necessary for the development of a utopian society. In The Tempest‚ the small society of Prospero’s island addresses the aspects of morality‚ the supernatural and politics in the larger British society. In Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe‚ the island’s natural surroundings highlights the subject of man’s individual
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only through the actions of one individual to another‚ but also through the ideals that makes a human suffer spiritually. These types of cruelty is also demonstrated in Shakespeare’s‚ “The Tempest‚” through the dynamic character‚ Prospero‚ who is a duke of Milan that spends
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Ballad‚ with elements of Romance and the Gothic. It draws on elements of the Romantic by its recurring themes of nature‚ extremes of emotion and religion. It also draws on elements of the Gothic as it includes religious imagery‚ bad weather and supernatural themes. The ballad is set at a wedding in reality‚ but the embedded narrative in Part 1 is set in the land of ‘mist and snow.’ This represents the
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Discuss the role of the witches in the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has included the witches in the play for several reasons. First‚ these supernatural beings have an important part in the storyline of the play; without them the play would not be as exciting. Then‚ they are there to thrill and entertain the audience. Furthermore‚ Shakespeare included them to please King James. The witches also play a significant part in the moral of the play: witches are not to be trusted.
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continually drawing the sky‚ the clouds‚ and his native environment. Turner was especially entranced with the force of the sea and said that he had once requested that be lashed to the pole of a boat so as to "experience the show" of a compelling tempest adrift. Romantics trusted that God’s nearness was exemplified in nature and confirmation of His presence. Turner considered light to be an intense radiation and played with it in pictures to bring out that truth. JMW Turner‚ The Chancel and Crossing
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typified by The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole‚ involves a beautiful innocent young woman who is held captive by an older‚ powerful‚ evil man in his large‚ ancient and gloomy residence for his own lustful purposes and who escapes‚ with the aid of supernatural manifestations‚ errors caused by “false surmises and conjectures based on partial narratives” (Hoeveler‚ 1995‚ p127) and a handsome young hero. Walpole ’s novel centers around the tyrant where the female writers in the genre‚ for example‚ Ann Radcliffe
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Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula will forever stand as one of the masterpieces of Gothic literature. The despicable villain Count Dracula and and his Transylvanian castle have become synonymous with horror and vampires‚ to the point that the modern image of the vampire is almost entirely derived from Dracula. However‚ one of this story’s most effective elements is Stoker’s masterful control over the mood of the novel. Stoker primarily influences the mood of Dracula by his use of spooky or wild settings
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