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Comparative Gothic Essay Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart”, Paul Berry’s “The Sandman”and Neil Gaiman’s “Don’t Ask Jack” are examples of the gothic genre. Gothic fiction is created to evoke fear and a mysterious suspenseful atmosphere. In “The Tell Tale Heart” the narrator kills the old man because the old man has a big eye that he doesn’t like and which scares him. The sinister mood is created with words ‘the eye of the vulture’. In “The Sandman” there is a boy in his bed trying to…

Flannery O’Connor is an author renown for her southern gothic works. She writes about violent and troubling things while exploring Roman Catholic themes. One work of hers that has garnered varying opinion of is A Good Man is Hard to Find, which is horrifying in its climax. While subtle, O’Connor creates a feeling of approaching doom that reaches its pinnacle towards the end of her work. Flannery O’Connor uses foreshadowing in A Good Man is Hard to Find to create a sense of foreboding. O’Connor…

In the aftermath of a tragedy people often look towards artists, towards novelists, musicians and poets also, for comfort, the kind of comfort one finds when someone is able to capture an event, or feelings, that you yourself find incomprehensible or unfathomable or inexpressible. For example, after 9/11 there was a rush to proclaim certain kinds of art as speaking for the time[s], and it was then that Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent received a lot of attention, it being a novel concerned with…

The novels Night and Maus are two very different genres of novels. Maus, is a graphic novel, so instead of being mainly just words, it has lots of pictures and words, in comic format telling a story. Night, can be labeled as an autobiography, memoir, or a personal narrative. So it is clearly seen that these two novels are different genres. Even though they are very different, they can still be compared. How will two novels of a different genre be compared? This will be the question answered…

There are authors throughout history that write such unique pieces of literature, that their names are spoken of in all literature-based classes. One of these authors that gained fame by creating works that stand out, is Robert Browning. There are many attributes that brought fame to the Browning name, but his mastery of the dramatic monologue is what defines his style of writing. “Browning exploited the dramatic mode at every period of his career, and is the most ambitious and successful writer…

called Chang Liu to study magic, and changes her tragic life. Bai Zihua is the leader of Chang Liu. He saved Hua’s life when she was young, even though he knew that Hua would bring him disaster. With the help of Bai, Hua becomes his only disciple. Hua falls in love with Bai during her studies, but keeps it a secret. Bai is accidentally poisoned when protecting Hua. Hua steals an ancient artefact to save her master’s life, but gains all the power of the Demon God. In order to protect Hua, Bai is…

David Bergen’s novel The Time In Between emphasizes on the concept of madness through one of the main characters’ Charles Boatman. Charles a veteran of war suffers from the mental ailment of PTSD (Post Traumatic Distress Disorder), however this becomes the significant link to the concept of madness. Madness in Bergen’s novel is depicted as a pathological tension between the rational and irrational, that consequently tears the person apart. Charles simultaneously displays this tension due to his…

“There came a stealthy thief that’s known as Death,/ Throughout this country robbing folks of breath.” (chaucer lines 5-6). These lines are quoted from Chaucer’s epic poem”The Pardoner’s tale.” Death is interpreted differently throughout stories, songs, and poems. Death is personified as a spirit or as a human’s physical presence, friend or enemy, death can be presented as both. The song “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult presents death as a persuasive person. In the poem “Because I…

Fagin represents a time in London that was corrupt, disorganized, and old. Dickens emphasizes the old London in Fagin by connecting him to the streets, he states, “The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch. It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew to be abroad. As he glided steadily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old…

name, but it told me that the world would end in 13 days, right at midnight. I went back home in the morning to firetrucks and ambulances surrounding my house. I see my friend, Melissa, standing beside a tree crying. I went up to her to ask her what had happened. In great relief she hugged me and said that A airplane engine had fallen on my house on the side of my room. After that my parents and brother were relieved that I was not dead. The aviation administration did not know where the…