English 200 Gothic Literature Spring 2016 Dr. D. Logan
Your name Aulani Little Date: April 12, 2016
Part one. Short answers. 5 @ 10 = 50 points.
1. Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” – discuss the gothic elements by quoting specific lines from the poem:
Setting: The setting was a dark gloomy stormy night. The narrator, Porphyria Lover, states “The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake…”
Character: The primary character were Porphyria and her mysterious lover which was basically the narrator in the poem. The narrator states “Murmuring how she loved me – she Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavour, To set its struggling passion free From pride, vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me for ever.” Porphyria …show more content…
On the journey he encounters many things such as an old man and something he calls the “devil stud”. The knight asked for guidance of the way of the Dark Tower from the old man. Soon to believe the old man gave him inadequate directions he grows angry and even more in doubt the journey can be completed. Roland, the knight, claims “So quite as despair, I turned from him, That hateful cripple, out of his highway into the path pointed.” He is claiming the old man gave him wrong directions but still decides to take it. He then begins to become more positive and tries to process happy thoughts about old friends, but soon becomes just another negative effect because those particular friends were traitors and were killed for being so. This brings in the first gothic element being approach is the disloyal and loneliness he is feeling and trying to disguise it with positive thoughts, but begins to make things more difficult. Another gothic element is the naturalization being compared, he states “A sudden little river crossed my path As unexpected as a serpent comes.” He describes the unexpected river as sneaky snake coming to make matter worst for the adventure. He crosses the river and journey is halfway complete, he then spots a black bird. Just as in the book Rime of The Ancient Mariner the bird was symbol of luck and hope just when …show more content…
But when Dorian looks at his portrait, he sees there is no change—except that “in the eyes there was a look of cunning, and in the mouth the curved wrinkle of the hypocrite.” He realizes his pitiful attempt to be good was no more than hypocrisy, an attempt to minimize the seriousness of his crimes that falls far short of atonement. Furious, he seizes a knife—the same weapon with which he killed Basil—and drives it into the portrait in an attempt to destroy it. Breaking into the room, after hearing some noise and a cry, they see the portrait, unharmed, showing Dorian Gray as a beautiful young man. On the floor is the body of an old man, horribly wrinkled and disfigured, with a knife plunged into his heart. It is not until the servants examine the rings on the old man’s hands that they identify him as Dorian Gray. In my opinion, I believe Dorian Gray knew the price he would pay for “killing” the portrait because his intentions were of good deeds to make things right and was now getting exhausted of hearing his own name. Pg 161 states “Was it really true that one could never change?” He felt the unstained purity of his boyhood willing to give up and not live in terror
Your name Aulani Little Date: April 12, 2016
Part one. Short answers. 5 @ 10 = 50 points.
1. Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” – discuss the gothic elements by quoting specific lines from the poem:
Setting: The setting was a dark gloomy stormy night. The narrator, Porphyria Lover, states “The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake…”
Character: The primary character were Porphyria and her mysterious lover which was basically the narrator in the poem. The narrator states “Murmuring how she loved me – she Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavour, To set its struggling passion free From pride, vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me for ever.” Porphyria …show more content…
On the journey he encounters many things such as an old man and something he calls the “devil stud”. The knight asked for guidance of the way of the Dark Tower from the old man. Soon to believe the old man gave him inadequate directions he grows angry and even more in doubt the journey can be completed. Roland, the knight, claims “So quite as despair, I turned from him, That hateful cripple, out of his highway into the path pointed.” He is claiming the old man gave him wrong directions but still decides to take it. He then begins to become more positive and tries to process happy thoughts about old friends, but soon becomes just another negative effect because those particular friends were traitors and were killed for being so. This brings in the first gothic element being approach is the disloyal and loneliness he is feeling and trying to disguise it with positive thoughts, but begins to make things more difficult. Another gothic element is the naturalization being compared, he states “A sudden little river crossed my path As unexpected as a serpent comes.” He describes the unexpected river as sneaky snake coming to make matter worst for the adventure. He crosses the river and journey is halfway complete, he then spots a black bird. Just as in the book Rime of The Ancient Mariner the bird was symbol of luck and hope just when …show more content…
But when Dorian looks at his portrait, he sees there is no change—except that “in the eyes there was a look of cunning, and in the mouth the curved wrinkle of the hypocrite.” He realizes his pitiful attempt to be good was no more than hypocrisy, an attempt to minimize the seriousness of his crimes that falls far short of atonement. Furious, he seizes a knife—the same weapon with which he killed Basil—and drives it into the portrait in an attempt to destroy it. Breaking into the room, after hearing some noise and a cry, they see the portrait, unharmed, showing Dorian Gray as a beautiful young man. On the floor is the body of an old man, horribly wrinkled and disfigured, with a knife plunged into his heart. It is not until the servants examine the rings on the old man’s hands that they identify him as Dorian Gray. In my opinion, I believe Dorian Gray knew the price he would pay for “killing” the portrait because his intentions were of good deeds to make things right and was now getting exhausted of hearing his own name. Pg 161 states “Was it really true that one could never change?” He felt the unstained purity of his boyhood willing to give up and not live in terror