Genre Cycle of Horror

Fear specifically is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Throughout the history of man, fear has remarkably had a prominent effect on the actions of many: used by dictators as a tactic to control, used in politics and religion to manipulate people’s positions. Fear materializes to the world in many forms; basic fears akin to those of spiders or heights, to more complex fears that are deep-rooted, like…

Horror as a literary genre is written with the aim of instilling feelings of terror, dread, disgust, or some combination of these emotions in its audience. This literature does so by capturing in its climactic scenes a fear found in all humans and centering action on the fruition of this fear. Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia focuses on the return of the fair Ligeia from the grave, an unnatural occurrence that shocks and horrifies its audience, but it is particularly shocking to the narrator of the tale…

message stronger. With advances in television broadcasting, the Vietnam War was unlike any of it’s predecessors. The Vietnam War was heavily documented by American news outlets, with battles recorded and broadcasted back in America. It showed the horrors of war in ways that many people have never seen or imagined before. Every major American news source at the time scurried to gain footage of fighting in Vietnam. Upon seeing the death and destruction of the war through the recordings, it…

Particularly in the comedies written by Aristophanes, many were combined with layers of sadness and tension. Bearing in mind the roots of Theatre of the Absurd, the fact that it only rose to prominence in the 1950s serves as a point to infer that the horror of World War II (1939-1945) was a major instigation for…

Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the darkest Romantic writers of his generation. He made several notable mystery tales and was the creator of the crime detective genre. He did not get his inspiration from other literature nor his surroundings. He used his own personal experiences that were known to be horrible and miserable such as the loss the loved ones. Poe expressed his personal feelings and thoughts into his own work. Some of his writings were short stories and poems such as…

likewise. This reveals a feeling of seriousness as they warn people that they have rights however, those rights aren’t fully applicable. The vocalist pauses various times while he sings creating suspense and an eccentric feeling as if you’re watching a horror film where the people are the victims and police are the evil antagonists. The song overall, including vocals and sound together portrays a dark, hazardous message against police and the government, and how everyday rights are being denied…

Harriet Ann Jacobs was a slave abolitionist and author who was born into slavery. She wrote Incidents in the life of a slave girl as a narration of her time as a southern slave girl. The books falls in the genre of being an autobiography when it comes to the literary genres. The novel was written in the 1850s and first published in 1861, New York but has been revised through the years. Jacobs wrote this book to let people know that no slave story is an exaggeration and to highlight the many…

Train Wreck Honestly, I was trying to envision the absolute state of wreckage (pardon the redundancy) my country now finds itself in as something apart from my daily exile experience… when the whole story turned more personal than I’d have expected: A nice woman I know has found herself pregnant during the panic wave surrounding pregnancies in the mosquito-stricken Brazil of these last few weeks. We have been discussing this, and Alan advised me, if I ever wanted to write about it, I should do…

Edgar Allan Poe’s dark outlook on life and love can be seen as the main source of inspiration to many other horror writers, but the influence expands much farther to writings not commonly perceived as dark such as The Great Gatsby. Typically viewed as the optimistic message for the American Dream, F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby shares the characteristics of Dark Romantic literature by involving death, the pain of lost love, lies, obsession, and the sorrowfulness of reality. These topics…

reads, “opiate addiction was not a criminal activity in which addicts focused on satisfying a craving for increasing levels of chemically-induced rapture through their opiates. Rather, continued use of opiates was driven by hopes of avoiding the horrors of withdrawal (p.181). Keys provides a solution to opiate…