Billy was originally walking in the dark when he saw the landlady’s window ‘brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp’. The contrast between the brightness of the window and the surrounding shows that the landlady’s home is somehow odd. Also when he writes about the dead dog Basil, juxtaposition is used to contrast between the warmth of the fire and the hard cold corpse. Juxtapositions point out the unusual things and make the readers anxious. Thirdly, rhetoric devices that Roald Dahl uses in his words contribute to create anxiety.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”, are both excellent examples of Gothic literature and the elements which set this genre apart from others. Each author employs such Gothic elements as metonymy, mystery and suspense, and overwrought emotion to create pieces of writing that have affected the way we tell stories even to the present day. Metonymy is an element that affects the way the reader interprets the scene without knowing it. In Gothic literature, metonymy usually makes for much “doom and gloom.” Blowing winds, howls, moans, sighs, and eerie sounds are all entwined within Frankenstein, illustrating Shelley’s use of metonymy. All of these are used to subtly reference the overall air of darkness and horror apparent in the novel.
The only love that is epitomized in the novel is that of the self, which proved to be perhaps its most gothic aspect. However it does consist of many classic gothic elements. One of its most striking devices is the gothic atmosphere that surrounds the novel on instances such as when Dorian is taking Basil to the room where he hides the notorious painting and the light from the lantern causes shadows on the walls and the wind rattles the windows. Another instance is when Dorian tries to visit the opium den; “A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist. The public-houses were just closing, and dim men and women were clustering in broken groups round their doors.
How does Susan Hill use Pathetic Fallacy to create mood and atmosphere in Chapter 2? In Susan Hill’s book ‘The Woman in Black’, Hill uses Pathetic Fallacy to show the setting of London in the 1920’s. Hill sets the scene with the very first sentence of the paragraph, ‘where it was already growing dark, not because of the lateness of the hour...but because of the fog.’ He describes how it hemmed us in on all sides; this is creating a feeling of entrapment like Eel Marsh House. She then goes on to describe how the fog was ‘hanging over the river, creeping in and out of alleyways...seething through cracks and crannies like sour breath’, this is creating an atmosphere of malevolence. All of these small details that Hill has included in her description
The bird’s darkness matches the morbid and depressing tone of the poem and represents lost love and death and symbolizes "Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. The beginning of this poem largely highlights the elements of darkness and death as Poe describes the atmosphere by employing techniques such as metaphors, alliteration and the use of ironic words to create symbolism. The phrase ‘Midnight dreary’ suggests that it is a dark, cold and wet night and midnight is also related to evil so this indicates that there is evil activity that is about to happen. ‘Bleak December’ symbolizes the lifeless month due to the season of winter which represents death. The metaphor ‘each separate dying ember, wrought its ghost upon the floor’ is used contribute to the mood.
The Use of the Doppelganger in "The Fall of the House of Usher" According to Edgar Allan Poe, “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” In other words, when terror is incited in a person, it leaves a lasting impression. It was for this reason that the gothic style of literature was so popular during the 19th century; readers were fascinated with the emotions that they experienced while reading this style. As Poe stated, the emotional state of horror incited by his portrayal of reality caused people to realize how chaotic life can be. Identifiable characteristics, such as gothic architecture, lackluster landscape, inexplicable sickness, and split personalities helped portray this warped sense of reality to the reader. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe uses the doppelganger, which literally means "double goer” to portray the two sides of a certain element in a story.
In chapter two of The Woman In Black, Susan Hill contrasts the emotions of the leading character, Arthur Kipps, with the pathetic fallacy to subvert the gothic genre. She does this by creating a sense of adventure and inquisitiveness through Arthur Kipps but describing the scenery to be dull and dreary. She portrayed the atmosphere to be flooded with thick yellow fog that “chocked and blinded, smeared and stained” the people of London. Describing the fog to have human abilities is an example of personification as it’s giving the fog, a nonhuman, the capabilities that humans have. By using the words “chocked” and “blinded”, it reflects on how vulnerable and exposed the public are due to this sinister fog.
He knows that what he is about to do is horrifying, which is why he implies all those evil images in the passage. Macbeth’s guilt is also apparent when he recites the line “nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep.” This is the one of many references to sleep in this act, but also one of the most powerful. Nature is normally seen as alive, beautiful, pure, and the quintessence of peace and harmony. When Macbeth says that the world seems dead, it reminds us of the Witches in Act I saying “fair is foul and foul is fair”. This use of chiasmus and
His good looks forced her to say “I’m sick of shadows” and break the curse by leaving the tower, which results to her tearful death. ‘The Lady of Shalott’ includes many magical and mysterious things, like; the curse, The Lady of Shalott herself and the fact the weather reflects the feelings of the lady of Shalott. This makes the poem super natural and it also leads onto the next question, which is the HOW part of the title- HOW did Tennyson make the atmosphere mysterious and magical? (Using the magical and mysterious things) Tennyson used some extraordinary techniques to create the poems atmosphere, the mood of the poem and vivid imagery. Such as: - Pathetic fallary and personification.
The tone is melancholy and is rings of sadness and boredom. The lines “our trim ship was speeding toward the siren’s island, driven by the brisk wind.” are rather dark because a brisk wind implies that the air was cold and coldness is associated with death. Also in the “Odyssey” there is a hint of sorrow when Odysseus could not satisfy his heart fully with the siren song, obviously for the better, “So they sent their ravishing voices out across the air and the heart inside me throbbed to listen longer”. In Atwood’s poem, the lines, “This song is a cry for help: Help me! Only you, only you can, you are unique as last.” Convey sadness for the siren who is portrayed as a involuntary prisoner on this island.