Dark romanticism

The descriptions in Edgar allan Poe’s story the fall of the house of usher are visual and can easily be adapted from words into mental images. He uses a method of gothic imagery which can be defined as, literature that focuses on human emotions such as terror and guilt. Gothic literature usually includes elements of an atmosphere of gloom, terror, and mystery. In the story Poe immediately introduces this theme, “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my…

Since Poe was trying to represent the mentally ill both in person and mind he utilized a gothic style and a depressive fearful mood to express the common view of them. The gothic style is characterized by representing the supernatural, having an aura of mystery, and high possibly conflicting emotions. The supernatural elements of the story such as Madelina returning from the dead are used as a call back to when mental illness was believed to be supernaturally induced. Throughout the story the…

Poe’s speciality is to leave loose ends and dozens of interpretations, all of them intertwined in the topic of the double. Therefore, the tale is at first a nest of doubles. The madman and the old man are at the centre of this horrible tale in which one is murdered by the other, and the most important aspect of their duality might be there, on the line of the madman’s retelling of the events, since one of the main aspects of Poe’s fiction is the one of the narrator’s unreliability. Should we…

written work with similarities in settings. They all compose of a dark, mysterious atmosphere usually during the night and consisting of a natural event happening. They also happened in an old, distinct house. For instance, in The Fall of the House of Usher, the plot sets in a grey sky. Later in the story, a heavy storm surged through the already torn-down house of Usher. Similarly, The Masque of Red Death also occurred in a dark, dank night and outside their walls, is the disease called the Red…

The Gothic literary genre is composed of many different titles, mostly focused on the abnormal idiosyncrasy of ruin, decay, and chaos of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many awarded and highly praised Titles such as The Castle of Otranto; 1764, and Frankenstein; 1818 were contributions from Gothic movement novelist. A few articles to discern when assessing gothic literature is the fall of house of usher by Edgar Allen Poe and the Crucible by Arthur Miller, and although both…

Of course, many beautiful stories show how humans go to considerable extents to survive. The tale of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” displays this by condemning the narrator to death. The sense of emotional morality exuded by the narrator leads to a sense of increased urgency in the story and power of the mood. This tale is valid proof that Humans will sacrifice unimaginable things to stay alive. Through out multiple experiences and hardships one can persevere. Initially, the Narrator observes that…

Gothic literature can be defined as a writing that creates an overall atmosphere of terror and dread; but the genre is a subcategory of the Romantic literature genre, a writing style that emphasizes emotion. Although, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ballad, Rime of the Ancient Mariner borrows elements of multiple genres, he enhances the elements of gothic literature. The supernatural elements not only create a terrifying mood but, also an attitude of forgiveness and love. Coleridge’s supernatural…

Gothic literature perpetually creates suspense and tension in the form of both tradition and contemporaneity. Both forms of gothic literature share a theme insanity that helps the writers to create suspense. In the traditional gothic literature ‘The Signalman’ written in 1866, Charles Dickens successfully builds suspense by writing in first person with numerous imageries. In addition, suspense and tension are well-developed through various techniques, such as third person point of view and…

The Cask of Amontillado is a horror tale that has many gothic stories in it. They include the underground chambers, dark imagery and a lot of violent revenge to share Poe’s stories. Poe is known for using the world of the gothic literature to bring out terror and external worlds to the psychological environment. He can create a world in the mind of the reader using gothic tradition. This world conveys the terror needed using irony, puns, double entendre and foreshadowing among other features of…

Symbolism in “Trifles” Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is set in the early 1900’s. Throughout the course of the story, the main setting is in the kitchen. This would not sound so bad if we were not informed of other characteristics of the house. The kitchen and the house is described as gloomy and the overall sense of the house is just depressing. The first stage directions describe it as, “The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen” (Glaspell, 772), and It is…