Comparison Between 'Night Circus And The Black Cat'

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Creative Title Everything that happens in the world happens for a reason. Most of the time it isn’t asked for but depending on how it is used can either create positive or negative consequences. The many lessons learned throughout the book and stories are created from the way the characters handled the situations thrown at them. The Night Circus and The raven share the gothic element supernatural. For example “The gears float back to the watch, setting into place, until the watch is complete again, hands ticking forward as if nothing happened”(Morgenstern 18). The abilities shown in this quote by the girl Cecilia are not normal and make Prospero interested in his newly found daughter’s abilities. Another example that connects the two stories …show more content…
“I took from my waist coat pocket a pen knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by its throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from its socket”(Poe 2). The man’s anger was slowly boiling over and finally he was set off. Similarly “Her father only gave her moments of rest before slicing each of her newly healed fingers again” (Morgenstern 34). In both stories the use of violence is used many times but it sees that it starts to slowly increase in the way they happen and how many times they happen throughout the story until the end when it comes out of nowhere and a huge twist in the plot cates you by surprise. Furthermore The Night Circus and the Feather Pillow share the element mystery. “She has great weakness which I cannot explain. And there is no vomiting, there is nothing” (Quiroga 1). The doctor didn’t know why she was dying or how long she had left, it was a mystery to everyone. “It was something that needed to be explored” (Morgenstern 61).The gothic element of mystery displayed in these stories make the reader want to keep reading. In both stories being compared the element of mystery is being drawn out throughout the whole story until the end because the authors want to keep surprising you with every

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