Gothic fiction

human condition along with it dramatic stories that was first told through the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood in 1985 and then 13 years later in a fantasy-comedy movie titled Pleasantville directed by David Ross. These two very different works of fictions allow the authors to share their views on different social and political problems.The forms of oppression are powerful and cruel in both stories. Oppression is imposed upon the weak by the more powerful and it can also be dictated into the…

The Spectral Obsession: Love Transcending Mortality Victorian ghost stories written by female authors are laced with themes of revenge, spectral figures of all shapes and manners, and cleverly incorporated commentary on society during the time period of special importance seems to be the dynamic relationship between the ghost and the haunted. In the novel Wuthering Heights and the two short stories “Over the Wires” and “Oke of Okehurst” an individual is haunted in one form or another, but…

Prejudice is defined as, “An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.” The majority of humans tend to judge others by appearance rather than personality Prejudice and appearance is prevalent in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein as well as today’s culture which has major effects on others through race, age, religion, etc. In Frankenstein, the monster is a hideous, vicious being of large stature that has the potential to cause injury, so he is…

Introduction One of the vital challenges which mankind has always faced is alienation. The nineteenth century gothic novels, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1845-46), artistically demonstrate the never ending cycle of being an outcast in society and share the common point in presenting the character’s sense of disjunction and alienation. Frankenstein is the petrifying account of a brute which was given life and fabricated by Victor Frankenstein and…

Romanticism, originating in Europe around the 18th century, is a period of art and literature that was created in retaliation against intellectualism and the rigidity of social structure during the Enlightenment. Romanticism was characterised by specific features directly countering the ideals of The Enlightenment including, celebration of the individual, awe of nature, interest in the common man and strong senses of emotion, all these of which I believe analyzation is necessary. Although all…

Story Modern Times depict Chaplin in his Tramp persona as an assembly line laborer utilized on a sequential construction system. There, he is subjected to such insults as being forcibly fed by a breaking down “bolstering machine” and a quickening mechanical production system where he screws nuts at a consistently expanding rate of bits of apparatus. He at long last endures a mental meltdown and runs wild, tossing the industrial facility into disarray. He is sent to a healing facility. Following…

I argue Lady Audley’s portrait is crucial to the movement and culmination of Braddon’s novel. Its symbolic implications are multivalent: as Lynette Felber writes, ‘[the portrait] protests the power and authority of the male gaze; it anatomizes fetishistic desire; and it raises questions about the construction of women and their sexuality in Victorian society’. Structurally, the portrait heralds the fate of Lady Audley by revealing her dual nature, by implicating a significant secret, and by…

During the year 1817, Mary Shelley wrote the book Frankenstein, taking her over seven months to write. The story takes place in Germany where Victor, the main character of the story, is determined to create life. Once he creates life, his hopes and dreams become his worst nightmare. As the book became a best-seller, filmmakers began to produce films of the book. In 1931, the first movie over the book came out. The book and movie have their own way of telling the story and as result of this,…

This poem has a type of association with a specific kind of connection or filter, since the word sieve infers partition by a screen, like a colander. Dickerson's choice to use the word leaden can be strange, since lead makes one associate it with rust and rot, while giving a heavy and overwhelming feel to the title; a heavy sifter may be an allegory for a broken channel. The title can be seen as something that filters something cold and obscure. The following is the paraphrasing of the poem: It…

Symbols a) Kino’s hand represents impulsiveness. In the first chapter he crushes the scorpion in his hand, and throughout the story anger and panic lead him to smash his fist into the doctor’s gate, stab a man, kill a man, and finally assault another man. Kino has so much responsibility, so much pain and anger, and so much at stake that his instincts are one step ahead of his common sense. His hand is the thing that takes their situation from bad to terrible and the thing that brings out the…