I Heard A Fly Trespasses Analysis

In gothic literature, it is a known act to search and creep around to find out secrets. One component which comes with the searching is trespassing. In the novel Dracula, the protagonist Jonathan Harker trespasses into forbidden areas and in the story “Berenice,” the protagonist, Egaeus, trespasses into the unknown. In the poem, “I Heard a Fly Buzz,” a fly trespasses by invading the narrators last few moments. In the movie The Conjuring, the Perron family moves into a house in which the former owners feel as if they are trespassing on their property. In the novel Dracula, the protagonist Jonathan Harker trespasses into forbidden areas and in the story “Berenice,” the protagonist Egaeus trespasses into the unknown. In the novel Dracula, Jonathan Harker is attempting to assist Count Dracula in his move to London. During his stay, Jonathan Harker becomes very concerned about his safety and what kind of secrets the Count was keeping. Therefore, he decides to trespass into his host’s room deliberatly. In one of Jonathan Harker’s letters, he states, “If I could only get into his room! But there is no possible way. The door is always locked, no way for me. …show more content…
The narrator in the story is close to death and there is nothing but silence, until a fly trespasses the space and silence and interrupts the narrator’s peaceful death. “I Heard a Fly Buzz” states, “and then it was There interposed a Fly - With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -Between the light - and me -And then the Windows failed - and then I could not see to see” (Dickenson 1). Before the fly imposes, the poem discusses the silence and the simple atmosphere. Because of the fact that flies do not know the situations in which they fly into, this trespassing is not deliberate, but it is brought in a straightforward way because the narrator comes right out and discusses how the fly imposed on the silence before her