Gothic literature has been around for centuries (starting roughly around the 1760’s). They consist of darker elements, typically incorporating the supernatural, grotesque violence and the madness of others. As well as using the imagination to create a very vivid and lively story that grips the reader. Its elements can be seen in present day novels. In the works “The Devil and Tom Walker” and Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children, a common gothic element within the two stories is supernatural abilities. In “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the Devil presented many supernatural abilities. After Tom meets the Devil for the first time, the Devil ended the conversation by “[turning] off among the thicket of the swamp, and seemed, as Tom said, to
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In “The Black Cat”, the narrator is very sinister; he abused and killed both of his cats and his wife. Just to prove how belligerent he is, the narrator came home drunk and his cat--Pluto--scratched him so he “took from [his] waist-coat a pen-knife, opened it… and deliberately cut one of its eyes out” (Poe 2). Another situation where he displayed extreme violence was when he and his wife got a new black cat (much like their original cat--Pluto). They were heading down to their subterranean cellar when the new cat ran passed the narrator and he tried swinging a hatchet at it. “But this blow was arrested by the hand of [his] wife” (Poe 4). In a fit of rage, he “withdrew [his] arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain” (Poe 4). Given these points, in Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children, Jacob (who is the protagonist) was the one receiving the violent acts. After entering the time loop, Jacob returns to his motel. Only to be encompassed by vile, malevolent patrons; accusing him of being a german spy. The owner of the bar says “[we’ll] get the truth out of ‘em the old-fashioned way. With a rope” (Riggs 129). When Jacob fled unscathed from the motel, he sought refuge within an outhouse. But upon exiting the outhouse he was confounded with a “blade to [his] neck, [his] assailant pushed [him] against the outhouse wall” (Riggs 131). Even though gothic literature is an old form of literature; its’ influences reach all the way to todays’ writings. Being a very popular form of writing, gothic elements will likely continue to live on. And hopefully find their ways into writings hundreds of years from now as
In “The Black Cat”, the narrator is very sinister; he abused and killed both of his cats and his wife. Just to prove how belligerent he is, the narrator came home drunk and his cat--Pluto--scratched him so he “took from [his] waist-coat a pen-knife, opened it… and deliberately cut one of its eyes out” (Poe 2). Another situation where he displayed extreme violence was when he and his wife got a new black cat (much like their original cat--Pluto). They were heading down to their subterranean cellar when the new cat ran passed the narrator and he tried swinging a hatchet at it. “But this blow was arrested by the hand of [his] wife” (Poe 4). In a fit of rage, he “withdrew [his] arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain” (Poe 4). Given these points, in Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children, Jacob (who is the protagonist) was the one receiving the violent acts. After entering the time loop, Jacob returns to his motel. Only to be encompassed by vile, malevolent patrons; accusing him of being a german spy. The owner of the bar says “[we’ll] get the truth out of ‘em the old-fashioned way. With a rope” (Riggs 129). When Jacob fled unscathed from the motel, he sought refuge within an outhouse. But upon exiting the outhouse he was confounded with a “blade to [his] neck, [his] assailant pushed [him] against the outhouse wall” (Riggs 131). Even though gothic literature is an old form of literature; its’ influences reach all the way to todays’ writings. Being a very popular form of writing, gothic elements will likely continue to live on. And hopefully find their ways into writings hundreds of years from now as