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    model to construct your own essay. Write your essay in basic black. TITLE (green) (INTRODUCTION) Interest Technique—Quotation (blue) Background Information (red) Thesis Statement with Body Paragraph Order (pink) (BODY PARAGRAPHS) Topic Sentence (black) Supporting Sentences (orange) Examples (purple) Concluding Sentence (black) (CONCLUSION) Summary (green) Restatement of the Thesis Statement (pink) Suggestion (blue) Cats Are Friends‚ Too! "A dog is man’s best friend." That

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    Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Copyright © 2005 by Mary Ellen Snodgrass All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. 132 West

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    use of romanticism‚ these authors booned their stories/poems with aspects of mood with diction that helps 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;

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    Poe as a Gothic Writer

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    early gothic traditions themselves. Neo-gothic interests greatly sparked the minds of many 18th century writers‚ Edgar Allen Poe being one of them. Poe is classified as an American Horror author of the romanticism era who wrote many short stories and poems of weird‚ gloomy‚ and haunting concepts. The ideas behind many of his stories relate to the minds of many people who have felt like Poe’s stories imitate. In Poe’s famous‚ “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ and “The Black Cat”

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    temptations could worsen and became more severe‚ in which the person develops a lack of self-control with major inflictions and regrets. A clash between good and evil‚ hero and tyrant is a basic foundation to gothic literature where Robert Louis Stevenson brought the internal battle in the gothic story‚ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Gothic setting are critical to any story. Stevenson begins with making a dark‚ supernatural tone of the setting of the story. The vivid detail of doubling symbolisms

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    whole story why he decided to pick Emily Grierson as the protagonist. “A Rose for Emily” allowed me to experience romance‚ misfortune‚ gothic horror‚ and dismay of the antebellum south in that time period. This story was very different from any other story by William Faulkner because it had many elements of Gothicism. Since the short story is filled with gothic elements‚ it made the story even more interesting to read. In “A Rose for Emily” there are several prominent themes throughout the story. Out

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    Similar Gothic Elements in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe are considered masters of American gothic fiction. They used similar gothic elements in their writing and used it to build up a sense of impending doom. Even today numerous readers enjoy‚ study‚ and discuss the gothic elements both utilized in their work. Gothic writing is a style that is concerned with the dark side of society‚ an evil that lies within the self. Poe and Hawthorne

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    The two stories ‘The black cat’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ portrays cases of anger‚ guilt and revenge. In the black cat‚ the man ends up feeling guilty of murdering the black cat‚ and in revenge he ends up killing his wife. This revenge also is what leads to him being sentenced to death by hanging. In his other story‚ Madeline is buried alive‚ and in revenge‚ she comes back to life and kills her sister and the house is made to crack. This paper will exploit how the theme of fear‚ guilt

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    The domestic cat was first classified as Felis catus by Carolus Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758.[1][3] However‚ because of modern phylogenetics‚ domestic cats are now usually regarded as another subspecies of the wildcat‚ F. silvestris.[1][4][33] This has resulted in mixed usage of the terms‚ as the domestic cat can be called by its subspecies name‚ Felis silvestris catus.[1][4][33] Wildcats have also been referred to as various subspecies of F. catus‚[33] but in 2003

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    Good Man Is Hard To Find Flannery O’Connor was one of the most known authors for writing southern gothic short stories. Southern gothic became a style of writing in the wake of the civil war and brought up questions in society like‚ ‘Why is violence such a large part of the south’s culture?’ and‚ ‘How did the South have such a hard time picking itself up after its defeat in the war?’ Southern gothic is usually decayed‚ grotesque‚ or derelict settings and situations and had themes of ambivalent gender

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