Dark Carnival

Gothic fiction or Gothicism is a genre or a type of literature and films that is literally a combination of horrors and fictions and even romance at times it also includes death and supernaturalism. It was known to be introduced by a famous Victorian writer Horace Walpole during the 17th century with his famous and well known book The Castle of Otranto also known as the Gothic Story. When he used the word gothic it literally meant something like ‘barbarous’, as well as ‘deriving from the Middle…

Gloomy, dreary, creepy, forbidding, dark, horror, and fear, are all words that describe gothic literature. Gothic literature is something that the writer Edgar Allan Poe has much knowledge about, for he has written many gothic short stories and poems. Such as the short stories like, “The Black Cat”, “Tell Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “Masque of the Red Death”. Also displayed in his poems, “Alone”, “Annabel Lee”, “The Raven”, and somewhat of “The Bells”. To a great extent, Edgar…

Less than a few years after the torrential Black Plague ravaged through central Europe, one of the most influential, and significant time periods in history, The Renaissance, occurred. During this time there were spikes of interest in art, science, writing and poetry, and religion. While many of these interests were significant, the biggest changes were made in the aspects of religion, artistic and scientific, and poetic advancements. Many pioneers were recognized during the Renaissance. A…

Allegories at this time, specifically around the fifteenth century, were a vital element in the blending of biblical and classical traditions into what would become recognizable as medieval culture. People of the middle ages were aware that they drew from the cultural legacies of the older world in shaping their institutions and ideas, and so allegory in medieval literature and medieval art was a prime mover for the synthesis and transformational flow between the world that they were previously…

of suspense and tension in mind, both stories are tied with a common theme of insanity. One of the ways that the two writers create suspense is by utilising the description of the setting and the themes. Dickens reiterates the words “gloomy” and “dark” as well as mentioning that “so little sunlight ever found its way to this spot,” These statements signify the calignosity of the post and that it is in absence of warmth, inducing fear in the reader as the lack of warmth and light is often…

William Herschel was not an astronomer when he discovered Uranus. He was actually a musician and teacher. He looked at the stars as a hobby. However, he used a method different than most star gazers of the time. He mapped out the stars in relation to each other, instead of the traditional grid method used at the time (Smith 2013). He started out by studying the Society papers on natural history and matter theory, after he joined the Bath Philosophical Society in 1780. He also reached out to the…

In the movie Dark knight directed by Christopher Nolan, it is evident that various techniques in the film add to batman being morally ambiguous while portrayed as a vigilante. Costume, design and lighting also contribute to the moral ambiguity as well as blurring the lines of a common stereotype to be real. Christopher Nolan breaks the stereotype of a superhero in the way that batman’s costume is designed. Batman’s body suite is black which has an evil connotation. Whereas the conventional…

Firstly, I would like to use the source of “War on Terror” to point out batman “gadgets” and how he is one of the most powerful men of his world. I would like to bring in the idea that batman has all the financial spending power that other people do not have. I will connect this to the notion of the power that others such as villains wish for, but they cannot have. As a result, batman creates a huge advantage among his competitors or villains. Secondly, I wish to discuss and analyze batman…

Bringing the fiction characters to real-life is the power that every book, novel, comic fans definitely want to have. If I have that such kind of power, the character I want to bring to real-life is Batman, because he is the symbol of justice, a very smart person and dare to break the law and fight the bad guy even they are the government. Every comic and superhero movie fans in general and DC fans, in particular, know that Batman is the symbol of justice. He fights the bad guy who commits…

Transcendentalism Transcendentalism, “began as a movement of ideals that altered society’s traditional beliefs on religion and spirituality” (Characteristics of the Literary Time Period). The characteristics of transcendentalism was that society believed that every single thing in the entire world, was, “a reflection on the Divine Soul” (American Literature Timeline). Other characteristic of transcendentalism is that transcendentalist believed in non-conformity, simplicity, self-reliance,…