Gothic fiction

November 2016 Gothic Themes in Frankenstein Known as one of the most popular gothic novels of its time, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has various types of eerie vibes. There are many different examples of the gothic theme in this story. “Gothic is known as an English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting.” (Dictionary). In the book, there are three primary examples of the gothic style…

The fiction of McCullers focuses on the portrayal of physically distorted bodies. In particular thecharacters from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Café represent a variety of physical anomalies. McCullers’ grotesque characters depict the loneliness of man and his incapacity to love each other. She portrays a dark and somber world devoid of sympathy, care, love and closeness in these novels that have no even a single normal character. This paper will also stretch the scope…

The Raven presents several elements of traditional gothic literature. Poe starts the story off by presenting the gothic element of mystery. It starts with the strange tapping on the door, but when the narrator checks, “darkness there and nothing more” (Poe line 24). The poem only gets more mysterious from the point on. When he opens the…

As stated in Catherine Wynne’s book entitled, Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage, it was said that “Simple characters in adverse circumstances; the trials of temptation; the triumph of good over evil; emotional tumult, sacrifice, reconciliation and finally redemption” were distinguishing factors of Stoker’s Dracula that…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has many interesting but different interpretations. It had been interpreted as a Gothic horror tale, a semiautobiographical account of a mental break down, and as a symbolic presentation of the effects of social and economic oppression on women. There are many aspects of the story of why these three interpretations work. For example, the first reason why it can be a Gothic horror tale is how the narrator gradually becomes insane. At first she seems smart and analytical…

Hellboy, Pan’s Labrynth, and the Devil’s Backbone, was able to create a romance film set in a haunted castle? Del Toro sets out to create a gothic romance complimented with shades of horror. Therefore, when you judge it as a gothic romance, you have one hell of a film. Many of the elements in this film will prove to you that this movie is in fact a member of the gothic romance genre. To get a sense of the story, after Edith’s father is brutally murdered, Edith and Thomas marry and return to…

Union fell devotedly under the flag of their fathers” (Digital Collections for the Classroom). As for slavery literature, it has been known to this day to be, “the form and themes of some of the most celebrated and controversial writing, both in fiction and in autobiography, in the history of the United States” (Slave Narrative American Literature). Slave literature has been known to been written about major points of what has happened on plantations of different slaves, or even the viewpoints…

While gothic novels such as ‘Dracula’ and sensation fiction based on gothic tropes like ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ are both presented in a modern society, the plot, underlying symbolism, and settings allows the past and present to persist as a central trope of the gothic. In the early stages of the gothic, the genre ultimately provided a representation for domestic fears and anxieties amongst the cultural shifts within society. The tension between the past and the present existed within gothic…

Jekyll and Hyde story is considered as a Gothic novel because of its strange and mysterious theme that evidently presented by the sign of supernatural along the story. The definition of gothic is pertaining to a style of literature characterized by a gloomy setting, grotesque, mysterious, or violent events, and an atmosphere of degeneration and decay (Oxford Dictionary, 2009). In this story, it discusses about the oddities investigation of Hyde’s strange incident since the first chapter. It…

instance, inert things awakening; woman crippled by an extraordinary, hasty, or tyrannical man, who asks for the female to achieve something unbearable, are not shown in the novel. Then again other Gothic segments adding to an atmosphere of mystery can be found in the book. One of the regular features of Gothic novel is its dialect. It uses the misery and disdain. A critical number of them appear in depicting the key of her night in the Abbey, when she found the organization: However, it is…