Autumn has come, and the leaves are falling. Unfortunately, "The Notting Hill Murderer" has escaped and is in the area. He is especially known for his brutality, and is possibly insane. While Watson and Sir Charles are traveling to the hall, they drive through "drifts of rotting vegetation" and a "valley dense with scrub oak and fir." They also notice "the gloomy curve of the moor" and "the jagged and sinister hills" in the distance.
He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil. The author shows this with the quote “with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony”, again this really brings out the gothic image using pain and suffering to make sure the reader realises the full extent of the horror that Frankenstein has unleashed on the quite country around him. When the creature is finally brought to life Frankenstein’s
The house of Wuthering Heights is introduced into the novel in a storm. This pathetic fallacy gives an insight into the main feel of the Wuthering heights manor and also the darkness it will bring later on in the novel. The house itself is an old stone building that seems daunting to the reader and very uneasy, the words that are used to describe the house are of a cruel and conficting nature, “kitchen was forced to retreat altogether into another quarter”. Furthermore, Wuthering heights could be seen as having an effect on the people that live there, for example its depressing nature and desolate location could have effected that characters behaviour, making them more cruel, maybe due to their isolation. This could also be suggested through Heathcliff and Catherine as it was only when they were away from the house and roaming the moors together that they truly are able to be themselves together.
The Road How does McCarthy create a sense of place in the opening of The Road? (p1-35) Cormac McCarthy‘s tale of a post-apocalyptic America The Road tells the story of a father and his son making their way south through a landscape where the land is burnt black, forests defoliated and the sky perpetually grey. The opening of The Road immediately captures the dark mood of the novel. “Nights dark beyond darkness and days more gray each one than what had gone before.” This sentence suggests the desolation of the world the father and his son reside. Additionally, intense descriptions of the landscape further reinforce the precarious image of the environment.
The harsh, gloomy characteristics of the land are reflected in the human characters. In Frankenstein, Victor’s country house near Geneva is described as isolated, dwarfed by massive, snow capped mountain ranged and hunted by the emptiness of a calm lake. Victor also describes it as "an unusual tranquillity"(page 27) This effect of isolation and tranquillity leads directly into the dreary element of mood. Victors apartment at the university also conveys a feeling of dread with its piles of books, scattered equipment, dust and unkemptness. Shelley’s novel takes us on a tour of the wildest, most isolated geography in Europe: the Swiss and French Alps, the Rhine valley, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Russia and the Arctic.
He knows he is heading down a road, which will leave him scarred for life. Brown meets the devil in the forest. He tells the devil “Faith kept me back a while”. This is Brown’s way of holding on to this premature faith a little longer before he sells his soul to the devil. “As nearly as could be discerned, the second traveller was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features.” This line from the story proves that Brown was relating to the devil in his dream.
Victor lived in a gothic area, Europe – Switzerland and Germany with old buildings, dungeons, towers, dark laboratories. It sure was an element of mystery and gloom. Shelley had Frankenstein wandering the streets of Ingolstadt and the Orkney Islands looking for body parts. That is awful and revolting. In preparation for his monstrous experiment Victor scours charnel houses, places for vivisection and graveyards, for these parts needed to create his new Adam or modern Prometheus, which is the novels subtitle.
At first glance, the title of the book gives you a feeling of mystery and wonder. In the first chapter we are given a description of the fear of vampires and the horror of what they exist for. This chapter makes us think something strange is going on. As we get further in to the book Peter meets Sophia and learns of his father’s past and more about hostages. When Sophia and Peter visit the graveyard attempting to find some hostages themselves where things go wrong and all the dead and buried come back as hostages from their graves.
The mystery and malevolence of the residents are clearly reflected in the foreboding, cold dark house in which they live. Wuthering Heights is situated on top of a ruthless hill on the moors, the terrain is rugged and risky to the unfamiliar traveler. Throughout the novel it is described during the most wretched of times, dark snowy nights, oppressive rainy days, and the cacophony of barking dogs. The reader is impressed by the wind rattling the hinges on doors and the buttress of windows beating against the walls of the house. The mood of despair is obvious to the reader.
As the four remorsefully glared at a stone that read “Son, Brother and Friend”, the deafening silence was pierced suddenly by the deathly shriek of a darkened crow. “Ahhh!” exclaimed the silent Delia. Again it shrieked, and again! Frightened Skye grabbed Delia’s hand while Ivan was holding Maia. The unending fog hung on the stones of the dead like a heavy, suffocating sheath, casting relentless misery on all who trespassed through it.