American science fiction writers

contexts (Historic)and symbolism in which the stories were written, which explains how it impacted their creation and their featured themes. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is typical of the macabre themes for which Poe became popular. The book is part of the American Gothic Literature which was characteristic of the 19th Century and focused on the human existence through supernatural horror, madness, irrationality, and guilt. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” on the…

and incongruous dialogue to express the obvious absurdity of man’s existence in which French writers like Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were unable to find the logical purpose for human life hence they used the term absurd for this inability (“Theater of the Absurd."[DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft…

demonstrated flighty conduct with brutal upheaval. Poe is well known for his American Gothic ghastliness stories, for example, the Tell-Tale Heart and the fall of the House of Usher. "The Black Cat is Poe's second mental investigation of abusive behavior at home and blame. He added another component to help in bringing out the dim side of the storyteller, and that is the heavenly world." (Womack). Poe utilizes a large number of the American gothic attributes, for example, passionate force,…

The necklace is a story written with the intent of the combination of greed, vanity, forbidden desire and wealth. It was written by a famous writer named Guy De Maupassant. The talented writer was born in 1850 and died in 1893. Because of his unique style, he was considered one of the best and most famous writers in the 19th century. Mr. Maupassant succeeded in writing 30 volumes, 300 stories, traveling books, articles and poems. Today, I felt fortunate to have read one of the many short stories…

Rip Van Winkle, a short story by Washington Irving, displays elements of the American Romanticism, as the author depicts the natural landscape associated with fantasy. The supernatural is a very prevalent theme in Romantic literature, and so is the love for the natural landscape, in opposition to the modern life in the city. These elements help isolate Rip Van Winkle from society, in a way that when he returns from his fantastic 20-year sleep, he becomes “the local storyteller, demonstrating the…

Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, was a realist writer born in 1878. He endured many hardships in his life, which led to him becoming a complex person. He based many of his characters off of himself. This caused his works to be filled with complex characters as well as critical views of the capitalist American society. These traits of realism are prominent in Sinclair’s writing and life. Upton Sinclair suffered through an unstable childhood as well as independence at an early age,…

There is always something that bothers us in life, whether it’s others or even our own consciousness. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator has a difficult time following through with his cruel act of killing an old man due to his “evil” eye. This occurs because a part of him knows it’s truly wrong, and his guilt was haunting him soon after. Throughout the story, his crimes bring more tension between him and the readers. Suspense is created by the narrator’s every move,…

human comprehension. According to Robert Tally Vonnegut’s critique of ‘old-fashioned storytellers” is really a critique of the mistaken view that life has ‘a beginning, middle and an end.’ That is why Vonnegut objects the storyline of reality by writer, who ought rather to acknowledge that life just happens. Vonnegut even describes in the first chapter how his novel will be structured: It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent…

The short film Gould Meets Gould is an example of seamless realism. This short film opens with a black screen and white letters showing the film’s title, Gould Meets Gould. It is literally about Glenn Gould, who argues with himself about the roles of artist and audience. Gould Meets Gould is a film written by Gould in which he interviews himself. Since seamless realism tries to disguise the illusion of realism, this film is an excellent example of the form. In the film, Gould is…

Life is like a rosary, it’s full of mysteries. This motto relates to these stories who was written by Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Stephen King. Firstly, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator hates the eye of the old man and decides to kill him to be free of it. Secondly in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator suffers from depression and has been isolated in a room with a yellow wallpaper with different patterns that made her think that there was a woman behind it who is trying to…