Brian Barros Mrs. Neshan English 3 19 September 2014 Washington Irving Mood Analysis Washington Irving is a very mysterious and suspenseful writer as is evident in “The Devil and Tom Walker” and in “Sleep Hollow.” In both stories Irving writes with a very gloomy, melancholy mood. Most of his stories are mystifying, infused with a bit of horror and fantasy. Irving uses elaborate language in his work to make the stories mood seem extremely dark and eerie. In the excerpt of Sleepy Hollow you can infer the movie will be very mysterious and dark. In the beginning it shows Ichabod Crane riding his horse threw a foggy, ominous forest, similar to the one described in “The Devil and Tom Walker.” When reading Irving’s story and reading all the adjectives he uses to describe the setting, it makes you think of a place as you see in Sleepy Hollow.
This passage characterizes Marlow as being harsh because of the way he is describing this man. His descriptions are very vulgar for describing a man who has died. This quote adds to the motif of darkness in that it shocks the audience by the way Marlow is speaking of the helmsman. On page 66, Marlow says " The vision seemed to enter the house with me--the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between
The next morning, Jaguar Paw wakes from a nightmare to see strangers enter the village and set the huts on fire. The raiders, led by Zero, attack the villagers. Jaguar Paw slips out with his pregnant wife and his little son Turtles Run, lowering them on a vine into a small cave to hide them. Jaguar Paw returns to the village to fight the raiders but is subdued with the rest of the tribe. A raider whom Jaguar Paw attacks and almost kills, the vicious Middle Eye, slits Flint Sky's throat while Jaguar Paw helplessly watches.
Hill continues to describe the fog “ It was a yellow fog, a filthy, evil-smelling fog, a fog that chocked and blinded, smeared and stained” The word “choked” personifies the fog and makes it appear as a murderer. Furthermore, the fog suggests that Arthur Kipps vision of the future is blurred and little does he know what may happen when he sets off for Eel Marsh House. In addition, the gothic element is another theme which illustrates fear and isolation in the novel. Hill re-works this element of having a woman in distress who is usually being threatened by a cruel male, however in contrast, we read about Arthur Kipps in distress, threatened by the oppressive woman in black. She is portrayed as the more dominant and powerful one because of the effect she has on his emotions, for example, “for a moment I was as near to weeping tears of despair and fear, frustration and tension as I had ever been since my childhood” (p.125).
This is evident in Shelley’s Frankenstein where she uses the description of a “dreary night” when horrifying events are about to occur. There is also a sense of mystery involved through this description of Heathcliff’s heritage, the use of ‘storm’ demonstrates to the reader that he is perceived as not being human. This again is reminiscent to Frankenstein’s creature who had no clear heritage and was incidentally born during a storm. The similarities with Gothic monsters and Heathcliff does not end there. In Stoker’s Dracula the vampires are refered to as the “children of the night”.
The night had been unruly; th’wind strong. I heard i’th’air, strange screams of death and prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events; th’king’s death. By whom you may ask? Well, actually by the king’s own guard, as it seemed. Their hands and faces were all covered with blood, so were their daggers which, unwiped, was found upon their pillows.
Stage I of Pip's Expectations: Ch. I to IX Chapter I 1. How does Dickens use setting to convey the mood right at the opening? Charles Dickens uses the imagery of a bleak, unforgiving Nature in his exposition of "Great Expectations" to convey the mood of fear in Chapter 1. The weather is described as "raw" and the graveyard a "bleak" place.
Bronte uses ‘desolation’ to highlight Heathcliff’s emptiness, therefore enticing the reader to discover why Heathcliff is so hollow. The Gothic setting that is Wuthering Heights only adds to the unnerving atmosphere. Mr. Lockwood clarifies Wuthering as the ‘significant provincial’ thus Bronte is using Pathetic Fallacy to build up the Gothic imagery, creating suspense. The ‘vast oak dresser’, the ‘huge fireplace’ all build up a description, generating an image of Wuthering Heights as a grand, machismo piece of architecture; the morbid coldness of the heights is personified through Heathcliff and his suspicious ways. He uses words like ‘grotesque’ to portray the gargoyles on the wall and uses ‘villainous’ to describe the ornaments that are around the living room.
The tree where Major Andre was killed, the Van Tassels party, and where Brom Bones dressed as the Headless Horseman and chased Ichabod Crane are in both the story and the movie. There are other examples like these, but the many differences seem to make the movie into its own story. Ichabod Crane was two different characters. In the story, he was a school teacher from Connecticut. He was greedy and naïve, tall and lanky.
The plot begins to build around this scene, as the men begin to collect parts of bodies all around the village. The viewer finds himself asking, “What are they going to do with all these dead bodies?” This is the gothic writer’s way of building the suspense, and keeping the viewer on edge. The suspense is built upon later, when it is found out that the monster that has been created, gets away from Dr. Frankenstein’s castle, and is now terrorizing the townspeople. The atmosphere is extremely suspenseful at this point, because it is found out that the monster has killed a small child, and all of the people’s lives are in danger. The townspeople decide to go on a search for the beast with hundreds of torches blazing in the dark stormy night.