I chose to read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, and within the story of the book, the author uses many Gothic style themes. Some themes such as mystery and magic can be related back to many other passages I’ve read.
Such common themes can be found in The Night Circus, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga. Mystery sneak itself in in each peice, almost more specifically in The Night Circus, but “The Feather Pillow” has a mystery as well. “ “I don’t know,” he said to Jordan in a low voice as he was going out into the street, “she has a great weakness which I cannot explain…” ” (Quiroga). Jordan’s wife had come down with a type of illness, but whenever a doctor was called, they couldn’t find out the cause was. It eventually drained her entirely and killed her, leaving everyone in a sorrowful mystery of how she died. While in The Night Circus the mysteries are not as sad, they are even more intricate, such as “ “They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence.” ” (Morgenstern 504). This piece of an open-ended statement ion dialogue adds the sense of mystery as to what can happen in the world that many choose not to think about. …show more content…
“ “The pitting of our respective students against each other began as simple tests, though over time they became more complex. They were always, at the heart, challenges of chaos and control to see which technique was the strongest.” ” (Morgenstern 501). The spite and drive of the two competitors from long ago turned dangerous, not only to those competing, but even bystanders outside the complex tests. While in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, any chaos and danger is limited at first to the group, but then grows to whatever the experimentee’s could
Such common themes can be found in The Night Circus, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga. Mystery sneak itself in in each peice, almost more specifically in The Night Circus, but “The Feather Pillow” has a mystery as well. “ “I don’t know,” he said to Jordan in a low voice as he was going out into the street, “she has a great weakness which I cannot explain…” ” (Quiroga). Jordan’s wife had come down with a type of illness, but whenever a doctor was called, they couldn’t find out the cause was. It eventually drained her entirely and killed her, leaving everyone in a sorrowful mystery of how she died. While in The Night Circus the mysteries are not as sad, they are even more intricate, such as “ “They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence.” ” (Morgenstern 504). This piece of an open-ended statement ion dialogue adds the sense of mystery as to what can happen in the world that many choose not to think about. …show more content…
“ “The pitting of our respective students against each other began as simple tests, though over time they became more complex. They were always, at the heart, challenges of chaos and control to see which technique was the strongest.” ” (Morgenstern 501). The spite and drive of the two competitors from long ago turned dangerous, not only to those competing, but even bystanders outside the complex tests. While in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, any chaos and danger is limited at first to the group, but then grows to whatever the experimentee’s could