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.
Fears and uncertainties have always played a part in everyday life. They are inescapable, all consuming and despite the changing times, universal. The Gothic genre is a style of literature which is intended to invoke a sense of terror while examining the dark side of nature. But the way Gothic literature commands its impact is through confronting society with its deepest uncertainties and perceived social threats. Therefore, the Gothic cannot exist or be valued without the sublime and contextual fears as they are universally understood conditions.
Isolation, as defined by Macmillan Dictionary, is “the state of being separated from other people, or a situation in which you do not have the support of other people” (www.macmillandictionary.com). In Plato’s allegory, the prisoners are isolated in the cave and refuse to leave and face reality. They are convinced that the shadows and their world within the cave is what’s real and are afraid of what else is out there in the world. One can certainly relate to this feeling of isolation and Plato was trying to show us how a human being can feel alone and prefer to stay in the unknown rather than going out and facing what is really happening. In Faulkner’s story, Emily is completely isolated within her home.
The language techniques that Shelley uses in the novel represent the genre of the gothic and also portray the fears and concerns about the era in which it was written. The aspects that can be taken into consideration when analysing the novel is the influence of Shelley’s personal life on the novel, the attitudes of people and family in the era and the character of Frankenstein. Chapter 4 starts immediately with a main feature of the gothic. Pathetic fallacy is a technique that Shelley uses well throughout this chapter as it creates an atmosphere and the reader can emphasise the setting. ‘It was a dreary night of November.’ Where Shelley describes it as a dreary night the reader gains an understanding of the setting of the scene and it is always in the back of the mind.
Self created or felt from another persons doing, this separation of ones being must be dealt with. Life comes with its misfortunes. Isolation and abandonment alongside poverty; all battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the memorable heroes. Mary Helen Washington, a novelist and a critic, quoted that in reading the story, “A Jury of Her Peers”, written by Susan Glaspell, possess “a tremendous sense of…isolation” (Penfield 87). This short story offers a real sense of its dramatic dialogue, describing the very nature of isolation and its eerie sense, dwelling in several scenarios throughout this story.
To do this they exercise disciplinary power in a concentrated and pure form. Goffman (1957) suggested that prisons act to preserve social isolation and to classify prisoners as abnormal through social segregation. Even though Foucoult and Goffman do emphasise different intentions of imprisonment they do agree that prisoners are socially isolated with no independence and are given a forced structure of living. Jewkes & Johnston (2006) stated that imprisonment is painful due to the frustrations and deprivations that prisoners have to experience and suggests that it is imperative for us to recognise them. Goffman (2009) stated that an inmate’s moral career is a personal process that an inmate goes through in prison, relating to how they think about themselves and significant others.
Addie's genuine character as a living human will be a mystery; a few may view her as someone who was playing with the devil and others might see her as someone with admiration because she was one to believe that actions speak louder than words. The different characters throughout the novel and the difficulty stream-of-consciousness method all work together to create a novel that is open-ended and a matter of understanding. There is no intent truth to the narrative any more than there is any ideal certainty to the events that happen in it. The way that Faulkner uses the multiple narrators serves the purpose of trying to figure out what is the truth of these events that took place throughout the story and this is what makes this novel such a success. Faulkner desires to enchant his audience and grasp their mind.
The camps were described as “a dehumanizing existence that involved a struggle for survival against a system designed to annihilate them.” Prisoners were forced to exist in conditions described as “dehumanizing” believing that the camps took away their human rights. Living in such harsh conditions takes away the feeling of being a human. Prisoners were fighting for their own survival in these camps. They understood these camps
Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing. Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs. Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed. Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed. Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
However “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” is seen as largely as a tragedy and “Far from the Madding Crowd” is seen more as a comedy, mostly because of their very different conclusions. The novels have lots of twists and turns that affect both the women emotionally but also economically and socially within the eyes of the other characters in the books, and also within the minds of readers. The way Hardy writes these two characters allows both the women’s personalities to develop; both Tess and Bathsheba can be seen as strong willed and akin to nature - part of their natural surroundings - as if Hardy sees women as being part of nature, and all which is beautiful within nature. A noticeable thing within both novels it that the heroines seem to go against society’s rules for women at the time. Hardy seems always to be making a point about society and the way it treats women.