Distractions from a Hectic Life
To begin with, gothic literature was first introduced in the United States in the nineteenth century; during this time there was a war and people had quite a hectic life. In the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children many gothic elements are present, this is a book written in 2011 by Ransom Riggs about a boy whose grandfather passes away and he is looking to find out more about his – delusional – grandfather’s life during World War II. In the gothic short stories “The Black Cat” by Edgar A. Poe; “Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner; and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the writers wrote these stories during the nineteenth century to escape the hectic life they had. In these stories they fascinatingly used the gothic elements: death, psychological …show more content…
In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily sleeps next to the dead body of her father and her boyfriend. “The man himself lay in the bed”(Faulkner 1074) which in other words shows that she put their lifeless bodies in the bed and she was sleeping next to those corpses. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the narrator is in quite a predicament. Weirdly Jacob (the narrator) thinks that his grandfather’s stories were true and ingrained in him. Evidence of this is that he said: “It was grandpa Portman’s stories that had planted the creature in my mind”(Riggs 43). The parents of Jacob send him to Doctor Golan, which is a doctor that is helping him rehabilitate from his issues. These two stories relate because both the narrators have psychological issues with family members. One is unable to let go of her father’s death and her boyfriend. While the other has acute stress reactions, and deprivation of sleep because of the stories that his grandfather has told him (before his
To begin with, gothic literature was first introduced in the United States in the nineteenth century; during this time there was a war and people had quite a hectic life. In the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children many gothic elements are present, this is a book written in 2011 by Ransom Riggs about a boy whose grandfather passes away and he is looking to find out more about his – delusional – grandfather’s life during World War II. In the gothic short stories “The Black Cat” by Edgar A. Poe; “Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner; and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the writers wrote these stories during the nineteenth century to escape the hectic life they had. In these stories they fascinatingly used the gothic elements: death, psychological …show more content…
In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily sleeps next to the dead body of her father and her boyfriend. “The man himself lay in the bed”(Faulkner 1074) which in other words shows that she put their lifeless bodies in the bed and she was sleeping next to those corpses. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the narrator is in quite a predicament. Weirdly Jacob (the narrator) thinks that his grandfather’s stories were true and ingrained in him. Evidence of this is that he said: “It was grandpa Portman’s stories that had planted the creature in my mind”(Riggs 43). The parents of Jacob send him to Doctor Golan, which is a doctor that is helping him rehabilitate from his issues. These two stories relate because both the narrators have psychological issues with family members. One is unable to let go of her father’s death and her boyfriend. While the other has acute stress reactions, and deprivation of sleep because of the stories that his grandfather has told him (before his