“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.
Thesis: In Macbeth, a play by William Shakespeare, the use of imagery with the darkness of the setting, night, and blood help to create an ominous atmosphere and contribute to the plot of the play. I. Shakespeare's use of darkness in his setting contributes to the ominous mood of the play. A. For example, the first witch states, “When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” 1.
Shadow of the Vampire Essay Shadow of the Vampire is a post-modern appropriation of the past texts Dracula by Bram Stoker and the silent film Nosferatu. Through omission, subversion and transformation a new text is created for a new context. This is done through both the use of gothic elements and post-modernist techniques. These aspects shape and modify the characterisation, the plot and the setting. The films story line is based around the creation of the silent film Nosferatu, and the director Murnau’s lust for modern-day immortality with an underlying conceit of the traditional vampire who is embodied by Max Schreck.
How do act 1 and 2 conform to the gothic genre in ‘Macbeth’? Shakespeare has structured the play’s first two Acts and their openings in a specific order, to reinforce the gothic mood and emphasise the important themes. In this way, the playwright introduces the witches right at the beginning in Act 1, Scene 1. Establishing the key gothic characters at the start of the narrative is a convention of the gothic genre, as the reader is immediately indicated that there are going to be supernatural elements within the text. Similarly, in Act 2, scene 1, Macbeth goes to murder Duncan.
Macbeth and Jekllyn Hyde both show evil and villainy in different and similar ways. By use different language techniques. One way evil and villainy is presented Macbeth and Jekyll and Hyde is the use of settings. In both texts parts of the play and book take place in the middle of the night. In Macbeth in the first act scene where the witches says “When shall we meet again in thunder lightning or in rain?” This meaning in weather conditions would be hospitable to witchcraft.
Poe uses all the elements of fiction to support the theme. An important element is the setting. The author uses the setting to express feelings brought on by the characters surrounds. This story has two settings. It begins in the late evening at a town carnival “it was dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season” (533) and proceeds to dark damp catacombs under Montressors house.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is both a romantic and gothic horror story that was written in 1823. In this classic novel, we see how Shelley’s ideas and beliefs were impacted and influenced by the Romantic era. Romanticism was mainly a literary, intellectual, and artistic movement that became popular in the early and mid 1800’s. It encouraged an individual to embrace inspiration and to experience life, and rejected rationalization and accepted concepts and beliefs. Shelley embraced these concepts and incorporated them into her novels, especially Frankenstein.
i William O’Neil Dr. James Nutter ENGL 102—Honors 24 February 2015 Romanticism Unshackled: a Study of the Modern Prometheus Thesis: Frankenstein should bear the title of Romantic literature because the novel embodies trademark Romantic ideas, situations, and characteristics throughout the text. I. In an attempt to categorize any novel as Romantic, however, one must first attempt to identify what, exactly, makes a work Romantic. a. A group of poets, including the likes of William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron and—Mary’s husband—Percy Shelley, who are commonly credited as being the ground-breaking authors of the Romantic movement b. Lyrical Ballads moved poetry away from the times of the mythical and fantastical,
How does Carter explore the theme of obedience and Liberty within the two texts? Both obedience and liberty within the set texts of ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’, are dominating themes. Generally gothic literature explores the exploration of obedience and that is prominent within ‘The Bloody chamber’ and arguably within ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’. As Carter mixes fairy-tales with Gothic Literature, the hope of liberty can be made to seem quite small as there is a very gothic approach to the ‘happily ever after tales’. Throughout ‘The Bloody Chamber’ Carter uses obedience to show who has the power.
In this essay I will be analysing and exploring how the use of gothic conventions influence the reader and convey Wilde’s themes of art, influence, beauty and youth through the supernatural, subconscious and conscious, and the use of a gothic villain. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Wilde’s only novel, exploring the interrelationship of art, life and consequence. Gothic literature started to become popular in the 1800s; an important and innovative reinterpreter of the Gothic in this period was Edgar Alan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. Gothic sprouted from the tradition of Romanticism especially in romantic poetry. Gothicism's origin started with the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, then increasing with