After reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I found three elements that impressed me the most: the atmosphere of mystery and horror, the unbelievable event of doubling in that century, and the disappearance of hope. First of all, the author put the reader in the scene of the night in London in order to create the setting of mystery. It reminds me of every time when I see a vampire movie, it’s all happen in London. The old buildings, the weather, and the night in London are often being used to make the whole fiction or movie more suspicious. By creating the horrifying setting, the readers can have a feeling that they are also inside the story and watching all these events happening.
The settings presented are also dark and eeire, and Dracula himself lives in solitude with no other companion. The film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ is just as reliant on the conventions of Gothic fiction (a genre that was extremely popular in the early nineteenth century when the book was written) as the novel, making it not only follow nicely in the novel’s footsteps but also proving to be a chilling delight for the viewing audience. Gothic fiction traditionally includes elements such as wild landscapes, eerie castles, darkness, and decay, isolation, security, the supernatural and innocent maidens threatened by unspeakable evil. Stoker has utilized all of the above and consequently, as does this film adaptation. An example of this would be in the theme of isolation as Dracula’s castle is hidden in the recesses of Transylvania, kept away from civilization of any description.
The Devil and Tom Walker Gothic literature was and still is a very common form of literature in which the point of writing is to make people scared or to question their beliefs. It started around the Puritan times and was directly opposed to their views, so it was aimed at them to make them question their beliefs. Gothic literature is usually extremely dark and gloomy with more than a little death and decay throughout the story. It also almost always has some form of supernatural being or event. “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is a perfect example of gothic literature because it has all of the characteristic features of it.
Gothic novels were given a genre of their own primarily because of their emotional extremes and their dark themes. It was full of remote setting, and it was a reaction to the people who had contemporary thinking at that time. It also mixes with perception of the view of reader, and Stoker creates Jonathan Harker as a rational narrator to make the opening chapter reliable to readers. The first chapter introduces the reader to the setting and the character of Jonathan Harker within the format of the book is composed as a diary and journal entry. The reader knows this because the novel is written in the first person and other characters are introduced from Harker’s perspective.
People such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King are all tributes to the original horror story writer, Edgar Allen Poe. Poe's haunting linguistic descriptions, unnerving parallelism between his life and his works, and alarming yet purposeful exploration of symbolism and situations draws the reader into a state of pity and sorrow while at the same times leaving them with a feeling of
The horror genre defies boundaries, invading on what people think are taboo themes. The taboos could be about death, sex, violence, or crime, carrying fourth the current audience of teenagers and adults. As the audience empathizes with the traumatized victims, they feel the fear, and endure experiences unavailable outside the cinema. The central code and convention of the horror genre, the isolation location, in which the victim finds help out of reach, rubs against on the audiences phobic 'pressure point.' According to horror novelist, Stephen King, phobic Pressure points are the fears the audiences share of keynote things, like the dark, spiders, and isolation.
Growled Scrooge, as id that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a Merry Christmas”. B. Scrooge responded in a rude manner to the gentlemen, showing no sense of generosity or sympathy to donate money to the
The reader is meant to be able to identify with the magic and beauty of Christmas whilst at the same time it makes them reflect on their attitudes and makes them think what they could do to be a better person in general, not just at Christmas time. The whole concept of the ghosts isn’t just thrown in for the fact that it is a Christmas tale; the ghosts are key elements within the story. They are actually viewed by some people as an extended metaphor, and could be acting as Scrooge’s conscience which takes him through different stages of his life, which in effect means that the ability to be a nice person was within him all
Vlad was not a good ruler; he was very harsh and killed up to tens of thousands of people. For his very harsh and cruel way of killing he got the nick name Vlad the impalor, which in my opinion is not a good thing to be called and not something to be proud of at all. The author of Dracula, Bram Stoker based his novel about the blood thirsty vampire in Transylvania because that is where the real Vlad Dracula was born and also was a very popular place that many vampire tales and folklore had already been plotted there. Bram has based his character on prince Dracula mainly for seeing that he truly was an evil soul that punished those that did not share the same opinion or disobeyed his rules and laws, and the fact that back when he was alive many feared him just like how people feared the vampire count Dracula. A mythical creature famous at Halloween that is not a vampire that I also adore is a werewolf.
He is advised not go to the room, yet he persists that he will not believe in a ghost until it has physical defiance. Later on the young man is faced with the ghost, and finds out that there is more to the ghost than it first appears. In this essay I will write on the area under discussion of how the two writers of Red Room, and Monkeys Paw create suspense, and tension in each of their short stories. Both Monkey’s Paw & Red Room have similarities, and differences, and are based on the theme of Gothic Horror. Gothic Horror stories are usually filled with horror, and romance, and mostly have interactions with paranormal events.