Gothic fiction

Text Analysis How should you feel after you kill a man, could you go on, stop and think about your actions, either regretting or forgetting. Or just lie there thinking about every possibility, every scenario, even going to the point of imagining unconfirmed facts to ease the pain you feel. In the end it doesn't truly matter what you do then, because it's matters how you deal with it later in life. Tim O’Brien emphasizes the action of killing a man and the repercussions it tolls on…

Is Grendel Evil? Grendel is comparable to the people under Hrothgar’s control. The more Grendel needs to relate to the people the more lonely he feels. Gardner isolates Grendel progressively by not allowing him to communicate with his mother or the townspeople effectively. Morality comes into question when one describes what evil is. Does the feeling of loneliness cause Grendel to become evil or does society force him to become evil? Grendel is not evil because society forces him to be this way…

An important aspect of communicating the truth is through an author’s use of literary elements such as humor and laughter. Diction and phrases such as “literary elements” and “humor” indicate the tone set for the book. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken, Kesey humor is used to define characters and the society they live in. For example, the Chief says, “They don't bother not talking out loud about their hate secrets when I'm nearby because they think I'm deaf and dumb. I'm cagey enough…

Light Yagami is the protagonist of the anime called Death Note. Light Yagami is a 17 year old high school boy living in the Kanto region of Japan. He lives with his mother, father (who is a detective) and little sister. Yagami is a highly intelligent person who can usually come up with possible scenarios and find solutions or them--he is also at the top of his class in both college and high school. Yagami is a very serious character who is often depicted in his school uniform or in a suit.…

Popular Romantic writers of the 1800s focus on many facets of human nature in their works, both benevolent and malevolent. However, three aspects of human nature are key to Romantic literature: those being madness, the forces of good and evil, and the result of guilt after sin. Hawethorn’s The Scarlet Letter incorporates all of those aspects, and various works of Poe’s do as well, creating clear parallels in their stories. The first comparison of their works is in Usher in “The Fall of the…

During the 1700’s poetry was primarily focused on politics & religion. Writers wrote about their personal issues and how they viewed subjects and relevant topics such as the government, slavery or any political issues that they found relevant enough to write about. In comparison to the early 1800’s writers moved away from religious and political writing and more toward writing about culture and life at home. As the 1800’s progressed you began to see a distinct change in literature, by the time…

There are always reasons for events that occur in a person’s life. For example, someone takes an object of yours and won’t return it to its rightful owner, therefore the owner’s reaction will be furious and troubled. The gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is filled with anguish and heartache. Not everything goes to plan for two individuals, and their rivalry gets stuck between each other. In other words, if they resolved some issues, they wouldn’t be in the predicament they’re currently…

that forces them to compete against each other. A romantic tale, that shows a strong sense of emotion between the two lovers. In “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe there is a similarity between the two dealing with ghosts in both Morgenstern and Poe’s gothic stories. The quote that best supports this claim is when it says “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word Lenore” (Poe 438). This quote is portraying how Lenore was shown as a ghost, which was haunting the man. Also, lots of…

In the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the Cherokee Myth, there is compared evidence of duality supported by the ideas that good and evil exists in everyone, appearance creates identity, and giving into temptation allows for weakness. There is the duality of good and evil, right and wrong, happiness and sadness. Robert Stevenson creates the idea that every character has two sides to them: good and evil. Similarly, there is duality between Dr.…

In this pre-rational, I’ll be exploring the Gothic genre in regards to its history, development, the key elements that classify certain literature as Gothic and the authors that made this genre successful. Next, I’ll examine the themes and content of my chosen text, Dracula and how it classifies as gothic literature in regards to the key elements. I’ll also discuss a handful of adaptations made based on Stoker’s Dracula over the centuries and how well they did regarding their interpretation as…