Gothic fiction

Human nature is the behavioral traits that all humans share and according to William Golding our human nature is a tendency that leans towards evil. William Golding is the author of Lord of the Flies, a novel that was published in 1954. The novel is about a group of boys who's plane crashes onto a deserted island without any adults there to look after them. At first they try to be civil and organized but, throughout the story it shows how the boys bring out their wild sides and become evil…

The major theme in Frankenstein based off of the highly complex relationship that the creature and Victor Frankenstein share. This theme and relationship can be compared to other stories such as The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Both stories include a creator and a creation, though the relationship that the creator and creation share in each book is much different, yet in a way they are similar. Both Frankenstein and The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde share a common theme.…

What makes a person cold hearted? The answer to that question may vary, but when it comes to serial killers, they tend to be heartless. Serial killers tend to be cold hearted because they do not show any sympathy toward the person they are killing. Both Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” are short horror stories that contain horrifying serial killers. Both of these stories contain unusual characters that have dark personalities and…

Paragraph One: This paragraph will be about the changes by look from Dracula and The Vampire Diaries vampires. I plan on researching the the different looks of vampires like the skin, fangs, the face structure, the eyes and the clothes they wear. And also the what peoples think of these features and why they have those certain features.. Paragraph Two: This paragraph will be about the changes in Dracula to the vampires in The Vampire Diaries abilities. I plan on researching the difference…

Poe’s Usher Edgar Allen Poe is known for his Gothic and macabre stories. I chose The Fall of the House of Usher because it is not one of his best known stories or one I had read before. The Raven, Tell-Tale Heart, Cask of Amontillado, and Pit and the Pendulum are all read at different times in high school, but I had never read Usher. In the classic, dreary Poe fashion, the story begins with a narrative point of view in the story. For most of his stories the narrator tells the story in first…

The masque of the red death In the story "the masque of the red death" there are many symbols, the clock, showing life, the masked stranger, showing sickness, and the black chamber, showing death, and many more. poe uses so many symbols in the story to keep the intense, and suspenseful feeling of the story in play. An important symbol in the story is the masked stranger. "the presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before." No one knew…

The “farmhouse” is a crucial setting to my book “The Dogs”. Dark, isolated, dingy, and a discreet place in a small town called Wolf Hollow. One of the main reasons this house qualified for their stay was because it was in a quiet neighbourhood and in midst of a dense cornfield making it hardly visible to transient passerby. Of course, an ideal hideout for a woman who doesn’t want a speculative audience and in particular wants to steer clear of her abusive and promiscuous husband’s company. The…

Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein contains many supernatural elements and fantastical events. However, in addition to the supernatural fears it introduces, it also brings something even more menacing: the danger in human nature. This genre of science fiction is one basically invented by Mary Shelley in which she explores a direction many would not be familiar with. Although seemingly unrelatable, she ties in the innate desires of humanity and twists it into something evil. Suffering from the…

Folklore and mythology are ageless. The two have been a constant throughout the history of mankind, playing pivotal roles in how certain cultures and religions view the world. The action of passing down stories through word of mouth through generations have been used to share cultural and religious beliefs, costumes, and values. Whether it is Christians who believe that sin is attributed to Adam and Eve eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or the ancient Greeks who…

The interior of the small, empty laboratory is only lit by moonlight. Sitting against the wall, the creature silently awaits his return. The play Frankenstein by Tim Kelly exercises many traits found in gothic literature, such as the presence of monsters, characters with abnormal psychological states, and a haunted castle or palace. One of the many traits that Tim Kelly utilizes in the play Frankenstein is the presence of ghosts, monsters or other supernatural entities. When Victor is talking…