There are many gothic conventions in ‘Dracula’, and this is what makes it an eerie delight for the viewers, as well as making it fit into the ‘gothic’ genre. The movie is cleverly adapted from the book, sharing the same title- that was scribed by Bram Stoker. Some very common gothic elements include the theme of isolation and security. Both of these things can be seen in ‘Dracula’ The theme of isolation is presented by the way Dracula’s castle is shown to the viewers- dark, isolated from any form any other form of civilization in the middle of a great landscape consisting of myriad and secret passageways and being a ruin in itself. The settings presented are also dark and eeire, and Dracula himself lives in solitude with no other companion.
Is this the way the English live?’ to which Gilbert’s annoyance he responds ‘There has been a war. All English live like this’. This room that Gilbert and Hortense will stay in is where they will ‘eat, cook, wash and sleep’. But it is significant that this place is where most of the tension arises with Gilbert and Hortense. This small and confined space makes the reader also question on how Gilbert and Hortense will be able to live with each other as they are two very different characters.
The orphanages are not the only places Jennings experiences alienation and isolation. He is also exposed to it when he is sent to numerous different foster homes. For example, when he goes to stay with the Carpenter family, Mrs. Carpenter either makes stay at a little table or in a cold dark room, either way Jennings is all by himself. He has nowhere to go and has to endure her constant torture until he is sent away by Mr. Carpenter. Lastly he experiences it when sleeps in the zoo at night when nobody is around except for an occasional patrolling guard.
It is also an example of symbolism as rag-dolls are life-less just as Mrs Sweeney is. In this part of the story we also get suspicious of Mr Sweeney as he would not go to the hospital when Mrs Sweeney is taken there because “he told everyone he hated hospitals”. The graveyard Scene is very tense and full of dark and scary images of death. As you read it you will be in suspense as Stanley uses clever and skilful metaphors and contrasting techniques. An example of a metaphor used is ‘a floating pool of light’.
Also, in chapter eight the character Ms Havisham is introduced. Dickens describes her as looking like a corpse. When Pip first meets her she asks him: “You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?” Dickens is portraying Ms Havisham as a supernatural being. This engages the reader because it is not common to meet such a character. Estella is also introduced in this chapter and believes she is better than Pip: “he is a common labouring boy!” When Pip talks about Estella he says: “I think she is very pretty… I think she is very insulting.” This shows she is cruel and a snob as she thinks Pip is less of a person than she is because he is poor, which engages the reader because they know that Pip has fallen in love with her but Miss Havisham has brought up Estella to have a hatred of men and the working class because of her own prejudice against them.
Poverty can have a large emotional effect on many people, and often they become mentally exhausted or depressed. The poet truly emphasizes the hardships of a poverty-stricken life in the second stanza, when he describes the day-time image of the tenement room. During the day, sunlight illuminates everything so that every point and detail can be seen. The author makes this stanza the longest to illustrate how hard it may be for individuals to escape the mental state of poverty during the day. He describes the furniture with a bleak mood, such as the two chairs, “spiritless as
With the image of a family fighting and angry with each other gives a very good example of one's effect with this disease. Depending on the type of schizophrenia a individual would feel very angry, violent and a numerous other symptoms (www.goole.com/health). “Certain doors were locked at night, feet stood there for hours outside them, dishes were left unwashed, the cloth disappeared under the hardened crust. The house came to miss the shouting voices, the threats, the half apologies, noisy reconciliations, the sobbing that followed” (5-11). In the beginning of this stanza there is a good image of people just waiting there for a individual.
Coraline The book Coraline is a very surreal book written by Neil Gaiman. The story is about a young girl called Coraline, who discovers a strange world on the other side on a fascinating door. Neil Gaiman has written a lot of other books, for young readers, such as: ‘Mr Punch’ and his best book ever written, ‘The Graveyard’. In this very spooky, fascinating story, Coraline and her parents move into a new house. After arriving at the new house, Coraline wants to explore the grounds, until some bad weather arrives and Coraline gets bored.
The first five paragraphs of the story are devoted to creating a gothic mood — that is, the ancient decaying castle is eerie and moldy and the surrounding moat seems stagnant. Immediately Poe entraps us; we have a sense of being confined within the boundaries of the House of Usher. Outside the castle, a storm is raging and inside the castle, there are mysterious rooms where windows suddenly whisk open, blowing out candles; one hears creaking and moaning sounds and sees the living corpse of the Lady Madeline. This, then, is the gothic and these are its trappings; one should realize by now that these are all basic effects that can be found in any modern Alfred Hitchcock-type of horror film, any ghost movie, or in any of the many movies about Count Dracula. Here is the genesis of this type of story, created almost one hundred and fifty years ago in plain, no-nonsense America, a new nation not even sixty years old.
Clever, facetious, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. . She is the absolute most random, crazy person Pudge has ever seen outside an insane asylum. The idea of the labyrinth is important to the characters of this book, who interpret the question as being about suffering: “How will I get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”(pg.18). First and foremost, what is a labyrinth?