Tangible Reality
Mental problems are disorders involving the way someone thinks, behaves, or acts in a way that is dangerous to themselves or others. Psychological issues are relevant in Gothic literature, whether they are to demonstrate the human capacity for evil or to show another side of reality. Authors utilizes the lack of certainty to demonstrate how far a person’s mind will go to rationalize a situation. In works like Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” or his poem “The Raven” he uses mental issues to express the idea that one’s mind has no limit to the imagination and can drive humans to preform out of the ordinary actions. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs uses psychological problems as a transition to pursue the idea of a different reality and the supernatural. In the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Riggs uses many elements of Gothic litterateur, but the most effective is the uses of a false sense of mental instability. In this work the main character, Jacob, believes he is going crazy after he witnessed his grandfather, Abe, die in his arms. Abe was seen in his family as senile. He would talk about “the monsters, the enchanted island” and how the monsters were “coming for [him]” (Riggs 27) and tell stories as if they were real. The night Jacob saw his grandfather get murdered he began to think he saw something but, this creature was …show more content…
In this story the main character is grieving over his lost lover named Lenore and one night he is awoken by the sound of knocking. He opened a window and a raven flies in; the narrator began asking the bird questions to witch it always responded “Nevermore” as the poem goes on the speaker gets more aggravated and it becomes obvious that he is not sane as he yells at the bird “ get thee back into the tempest and the nights plutonian shore!” (Poe
Mental problems are disorders involving the way someone thinks, behaves, or acts in a way that is dangerous to themselves or others. Psychological issues are relevant in Gothic literature, whether they are to demonstrate the human capacity for evil or to show another side of reality. Authors utilizes the lack of certainty to demonstrate how far a person’s mind will go to rationalize a situation. In works like Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” or his poem “The Raven” he uses mental issues to express the idea that one’s mind has no limit to the imagination and can drive humans to preform out of the ordinary actions. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs uses psychological problems as a transition to pursue the idea of a different reality and the supernatural. In the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Riggs uses many elements of Gothic litterateur, but the most effective is the uses of a false sense of mental instability. In this work the main character, Jacob, believes he is going crazy after he witnessed his grandfather, Abe, die in his arms. Abe was seen in his family as senile. He would talk about “the monsters, the enchanted island” and how the monsters were “coming for [him]” (Riggs 27) and tell stories as if they were real. The night Jacob saw his grandfather get murdered he began to think he saw something but, this creature was …show more content…
In this story the main character is grieving over his lost lover named Lenore and one night he is awoken by the sound of knocking. He opened a window and a raven flies in; the narrator began asking the bird questions to witch it always responded “Nevermore” as the poem goes on the speaker gets more aggravated and it becomes obvious that he is not sane as he yells at the bird “ get thee back into the tempest and the nights plutonian shore!” (Poe