Dark Night of the Soul

world around her. But the world was too big for her, for her tolerance to the world was only for fine experiences not ones that could break her heart. She then grew wary of the world on the other side of her walls. “So safer – guess – with just my soul Upon the window pane Where other creatures put their eyes –…

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a story of a man who is young in the ways of the world. This man, Goodman Brown, found that men are not all good, and later in the story he became convinced they are all bad. He could not remove the idea of universal evil from his mind. The loss of innocence and faith consumed him for the worse. Paul J. Hurley proposed that the origin of evil from the story was within Goodman Brown. In the story, he walked into the woods by his own will and purposely sought evil.…

who are not. Ernest Hemingway delves into a common reason behind many people’s discontent in his short story, “A Clean, Well – Lighted Place.” The story follows an older waiter as he and his younger counterpart serve an old man in the middle of the night. The younger waiter wishes to go home early, but the elder does not mind the time. Time spent at work is nothing to those who have no purpose other than that, or a person to spend time with elsewhere. Hemingway presents the fight the…

The short story,“The Cask of Amontillado“ by Edgar Allen Poe is a great example, he uses an impressive writing style by creating dark suspense, using a unique point of view, and use irony. The author uses countless amount…

It's like a smoke in the mirror or a string that pulls us closer, and closer every time our minds tries to escape the magnitude of advertisements placed upon us. Therefore, I sat in the dark corners of my room and asked myself, are our minds ever going to find peace and tranquility to think on its own as long as these ads are embedded within us? From the very instant we open our eyes in the morning, these advertisement’s start to find their ways in our brains, “at the rate of about three…

Johnson 's "The Dark Angel", Gray 's "Did we not, darling you and I" and Symons ' "Nocturne", are three poems that can be interpreted as being about breaking the rules of what was socially acceptable at the time. Through allusions, word choices and imagery, these poets discussed transgression and its implications in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. In Johnson 's "The Dark Angel", the speaker addresses said dark angel directly, expressing anguish and torment…

manner. She was cooperated to biting the near by roaming children (Stoker 507). Doctor Van Helsing had gratefully known substantial amounts of knowledge about most of his surroundings and used a great amount of wisdom to come to conclusions about the dark world that most normal people could not understand. No one in Transylvania could have known that without…

the main character is a vampire. Vampires feed on human blood to stay alive and use their fangs to draw blood from the human’s body. Also, considering that vampires are practically nightstalkers they apprehend their victims in the darkness of the night. For a piece of literature to be classified as Gothic, it has to possess three elements: romanticism, fiction, and Goth. All of the elements previously listed make up most of gothicism in American Literature. The origin of goth came from…

DeGroat depicts that sometimes it makes difficult to love certain people because these people are complex and difficult. Some people have personality disorders, some people have addictions, and some are just fools. Also, our own selves make us difficult to love these people. (DeGroat, 12) We are living in a broken world and each of us has an invisible bag behind us. DeGroat argues that by understanding the complexity of people and ourselves, we, as leaders and care-givers, can start caring for…

the biggest fear I had was the monsters lurking in the dark. The monsters that took refuge in my closet and under my bed. It was never a fear during the day; only at night. As I got older I realized those monsters weren’t real, but the perception of them had morphed into real life situations. Why do many of us feel unsafe at night especially in public? For me it was my own personal experiences. What I understand is in the depths of the night we no longer see with clarity. Our senses help us…