“Its style tends to be ornate, unnatural” (Carter 134). This is very true about Poe’s writing, his writing has a sense of flow to it and is ornate in its descriptions, but it is a dark ornate like something grand that is only a shadow of its former glory. For example, in “Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe describes the mansion in ornate detail, but using words that left the grand image in your mind but as a rundown macabre shadow of what it once was. Poe unquestionably works within the Gothic Mode; it can be identified in almost all his writings with the exception maybe being “The Bells” but even in that poem, Poe writes about funeral bells. One of his most well know stories, “The Raven” is a prime example of his usage of the Gothic Mode.
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.
At the end, he unintentionally calls the Devil and is whisked away by The Devil ending the story. Another element of gothic literature that can be found in “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a gloomy and depressing setting. The setting in gothic literature is often cold, dark, and gloomy. The setting in this story is one of the best possible settings use as example of gothic literature because it has all of these elements. “The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks, some of them ninety feet high; which made it dark at noonday,
In chapter five of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature is given life. The opening paragraph makes excellent use of pathetic fallacy, using the weather to set the scene. The first lines of the chapter “it was a dreary night in November” and “the rain pattered dismally against the windowpanes” make obvious use of traditional gothic horror scenery. Victor Frankenstein seems to have mixed emotions at the time of the creature’s birth. He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil.
In her novel Frankenstein, she creates her own gothic novel by the classical elements of a dark setting, the use of a villainous character, and the mysterious tone. Initially, Mary Shelley uses a dark setting to portray Frankenstein as a gothic novel. The dark setting pushes the plot and creates the essence of many of the scenes in this sinister story. Once Dr. Frankenstein decides to sneak into an uncanny cemetery and steals a body, the setting allows the exposure of his ominous fascination. He looks down at the lifeless body and his instruments "on a dreary night of November" and "the rain pattered dismally against the panes."
They also notice "the gloomy curve of the moor" and "the jagged and sinister hills" in the distance. When Sir Charles and Watson arrive at Baskerville Hall, they think it is very gloomy, with its iron gates, the ruined stone lodge, and the long drive with dark trees hanging over it. The Hall has two Gothic looking towers, which are covered with ivy, and inside, the main parlor is darkly paneled. The dining room is also very dreary, and is decorated with intimidating portraits of stern ancestors. In the night there are frightening sounds.
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.
Lady Macbeth’s Suicide Note My dearest partner in heinous crime, the dark has come. Hell enshrouds me. I am like a child afraid of the dark. I must keep the candles lit at all hours. My childhood eyes see in the darkness the “painted devils.” (Act 1 Scene 2) My ears hear the “owl scream” and the “crying crickets” and the “croaking raven” (Act 2 Scene 5) - all rob my sleep.
Poe describes being buried alive as a complete distress. The imagery Poe uses is the unendurable oppression of the lungs, the suffocating fumes from the damp earth, the clinging of death garments, the rigid embrace of the narrow house, the blackness of the absolute night, the silence like a see that overwhelms, and the unseen presence of the Conqueror Worm. 2. According to the narrator, one is saved from premature interment and has been previously subject to catalepsy, and by the non-appearance of decay. 3.
Brady Dittmar Bennett Honors American Literature 25 March 2015 Literary Analysis of “The Fall of the House of Usher” Literary techniques come in many forms and Romantic authors use them in different ways for different reasons. These techniques like foreshadowing, allusions, imagery, parallelism, and symbolism are very important to any piece of writing. Edgar Allan Poe used these methods in his writing, especially in his short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Poe uses literary techniques to makes the tale more interesting and meaningful to the reader. Those literary practices are what crafts “The Fall of the House of Usher” into the vividly horrifying story that it is famous for being, and Poe uses symbolism, foreshadowing, which coalesce to create a dismal tone to fulfill this purpose. Poe includes a multitude of symbols in his writing, and “The Fall of the House of Usher” is no exception to this.