Beacon Hall Cautiously walked I towards the grand old mansion‚ where I read the name aloud ’Beacon Hall’. The vulgar and vile house had the look of an old run down Gothic church with arched stained glass windows. The doors and windows reminded me of a church I once visited called ’El Monumental’ in Barcelona. I breathed in deeply smelling wet oak wood reminding me of winter fires and roasting chestnuts. The area was in an old abandoned town by the forest and the old lake‚ as I went into the house
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design today. The enduring values of medieval art and architecture can be split up into five major styles‚ early Christian‚ Byzantine‚ Islamic‚ Romanesque and Gothic. The most influential period was the Gothic‚ which is known for its significant change from classical architecture; this change from classical architecture aided in the Gothic era’s transformation to its own identity. The Medieval period is known for its constant warfare and battle‚ and most people feared death and eternal damnation;
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Women were valued very little by nineteenth century society. The treatment of these women was also extremely negative; they were expected to stay home and fulfill domestic duties. Literature of this time embodies and mirrors social issues of women in society. Henrik Ibsen uses Nora Helmer in A Doll House to portray the negative treatment of all women throughout society during the nineteenth century. Many women characters throughout American literature reflect the same conflicts and attitudes of Nora
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unfortunate reality many college students face on college campuses‚ an environment that is supposedly a so-called safe place. The general public tends to play stalking off as not being that bad‚ and that the victim deep down really loves the attention their perpetrator shows them. But how do the victims of stalking feel about their experiences? Do they feel like they have been violated in some way? Research conducted by Dr. McNamara and Dr. Marsil indicate
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horror story; Society at the time did not understand its true meaning until later on in history. Gilman‚ the author of “The Yellow Wall Paper”‚ never intended his story to be Gothic Horror‚ but with the story being focused around the mental illness of a woman‚ many viewed it as just that. This story proves the statement “women have been socially‚ historically‚ and medically constructed as not only weak‚ but also sick” (Suess). The narrator’s husband is a doctor at the local hospital and insists on
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Unit: “Clothes/Fashion/Style”. Theme: “Fashion victims”. Problem: Factors that make people buy things they don’t need. Factors that make people to look ordinary‚ like anybody else. Idea of the project: If someone wants to change the world by buying clothes it doesn’t work. It’s better to change his/her personality to be in harmony with others. While trying to be fashionable‚ people loose themselves and become fashion addicted (so called “fashion victims”). It’s better to dress in the way they like
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To what extent do you agree that obsession is a significant element in the gothic writing you have studied? The word obsession means the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea‚ image or desire. With this in mind‚ both Faustus and Frankenstein show symptoms of monomania in relation to academic obsession. Similarly‚ in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ the characters that experience obsession are also male‚ however they are driven by a different obsession: sexual desire. In the prologue
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GOTHIC INTRODUCTION g The origin of gothic subculture Gothic subculture originated in eighteen century‚ where the gothic literature took place. There are a couple samples of the literature of gothic‚ such as the book‚ which wrote by Horace Walpole in year of 1717 and in 1797‚ whilst people actually believed the gothic started‚ when the first single song of Bauhaus in 1979 released‚ which called “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” THE DEFINITION AND SUBGROUP OF GOTHS According to the statement of the sociologist
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Rape Culture and Victim-Blaming According to the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime‚ victim blaming can be defined as “a devaluing act that occurs when the victim(s) of a crime or an accident is held responsible — in whole or in part — for the crimes that have been committed against them”. It can appear in forms of negative social response from authoritative organizations (lawyers‚ police‚ etc.) or from the victim’s social circle (friends‚ family‚ school‚ etc.) towards the crime that
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GOTHIC LITERATURE The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole‚ whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that constitute the genre. Walpole’s novel was imitated not only in the eighteenth century and not only in the novel form‚ but it has influenced writing‚ poetry‚ and even film making up to the present day. It introduced the term "gothic romance" to the literary world. Due to its inherently supernatural‚ surreal and sublime elements
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