Gothic language

“A deeper understanding of disruption and identity emerges from considering the parallels between Frankenstein and Blade Runner.” Compare how these texts explore disruption and identity. Frankenstein and BladeRunner both explore disruption and identity through the creators who have created life unethically and through the characters who were created and were abandoned. Shelley and Scott present the responder with a disrupted world where the relationships between nature and science and…

He admires his appearance, character and health. He describes this in the opening pages through his letters to Elizabeth by saying “I must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of little darling William. I wish you could see him, he is very tall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eyelashes, and curling hair. When he smiles, two little dimples appear on each cheek, which are rosy with health”. This could therefore mean he wants William dead? He is jealous of Williams’s…

Emotional destruction, brutal sport fields and blurry vision are just some of the moments that sum up the first four paragraphs of acclaimed novel, The Chocolate War. This novel is a basic story, however usage of techniques such as metaphors, similes and verbs have changed my outlook on the book. I now see a complex, dramatic piece of literature. There are many themes and ideas displayed in these passages which challenge a variety of thought. Firstly, this quote looks at sport being compared…

the protagonist, Emily, poisoned her lover and had been sleeping and cuddling his corpse for more than forty years. What Faulkner has illustrated here is called necrophilia, which is the erotic attraction to corpses. This here is an example of the gothic genre, which is a combination of horror and romance. In the story, the narrator does not take any sides and just tells the story as it is. Everything that we know about Emily is told through the gossip of the townspeople. He uses a…

In the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, we are faced with a pallet of characters, all whom are very dynamic and have clear ambitions. Up until Chapter 6, we are given the idea that Dorian Gray is a generally normal man. He shows no sign of abnormality, he is simply a man with rather good looks and he has an immense interest in Lord Henry’s philosophical way of thinking. The first real event in which the reader can either justify Dorian’s actions as good or bad is located in…

The gothic movement during the late 18th century fixated on horror and gore, turning away from the social norms; the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, a pivotal contributor to gothic literature, perfectly embodies the essence of the movement. Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is from the perspective of a crazed narrator that kills an old-man in order to rid himself the torment of looking at his eye. Poe’s “The Black Cat” is another short story where the narrator commits murder, killing his cat…

Many people tend to believe in rumors spread by others instead of learning the truth about a person’s life before judging them. Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley has always been a person of interest for Scout. He lurks in the dark and is a shroud of mystery, the only information learn about him is through rumors. As Scout develops and matures, she realizes that Boo Radley is not as he seems, and learns a lesson from her prejudice of him. Through the novel, To Kill a…

American Gothic Literature American gothic literature is a genre that appears in western literature from novels and horrifying things. American gothic literature is packed full of images of Hell, devils and demons, and also full of magic and mystery. Gothic Literature shows the mixture of good and evil. “Gothic representations of extreme circumstances of terror, oppression and persecution, darkness and obscurity of setting, and innocence betrayed are considered to begin with Horace…

There is good and evil in everyone, but Dr. Jekyll takes it too far as he turns the two into separate identities. There is no perfectly good human in this world, they will all have flaws with some being worse than others. With good balancing out bad, people are able to control themselves to not go after every pleasure they may desire. However, if one were to separate the two it would result in a completely different person with no control over their unvirtuous actions. This is what Henry Jekyll…

Mirroring in “The Fall of the House of Usher” In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe, the ambiguous narrator confines himself to helping an old friend which leads to the despise of both men. Roderick Usher, who is mentally sick, requests the narrator to stay with him in his sinister looking mansion with Roderick’s sister Madeline. Concurrently the house Roderick is living in is falling apart like Roderick’s health and family. Roderick himself seems parallel in…