Gothic language

intermingle with a lake baptism, half-naked women—some gyrating, cemeteries, and an old roadside letter board that reads God Hates Fangs! This opening sequence to the television series True Blood, created by Alan Ball, is a visual tapestry of Southern Gothic themes and stylization.…

The term, Gothic literature, was a movement in the 18th century that focused on ruin, terror, horror, death, and the darkness of human nature. This writing also combines elements of the supernatural and events that can’t be explained in the natural world. Gothic writing originated with British writers using science, religion, and industry combined with the question of the unknown by using the symbolism of a darker world in caves, castles, nightmares, and fear. With the movement to the new world…

The first gothic novel The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, published in 1764, substantially contained all the paramount elements of the gothic genre. Supernatural, old castles, omens, prophecies, frantic emotions, the air of mystery and suspense, patriarchy and a woman in distress form the basic but essential foundation to this genre. From The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole to “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe to several contemporary works in the gothic genre, we see…

writer, dramatist, biographer, and travel writer. She was born August 30, 1797 in Somers Town, London in the United Kingdom. She was well-known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus. Shelly spent time in Geneva to get inspiration for the novel Frankenstein. Shelly focuses on the influences of history, the elements of the Gothic theme, and the theme of Modern Prometheus. The history of Frankenstein started when Mary Shelly was just a teenager. Frankenstein was written in…

includes many significant elements of Female Gothic while Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” features both Female and American Gothic traditions. Many of these elements refer directly to the major characters, neither of whom have a name that is not preceded by an article. They do not get names, but titles. These characters are, of course, the Creature and the narrator. The Creature in Frankenstein fulfils the role of the Female Gothic heroine; he is basically orphaned, powerless…

Mary Shelley wrote her novel Frankenstein in what can be considered the grey area between the romantic and gothic eras of literature. Because of this, the story functions in a similar transitional fashion, especially through its treatment of nature, science and its relationship with religion and ‘playing God’, and humanity. Throughout the story, nature and location play a scene setting role as well as aids in character development. Commonly, nature in romance literature is used as a sort of…

Peter Kidson sets out to analyze Panofsky’s writings on Abbot Suger and whether they depict an accurate image of the man and his role in the development of the Gothic style. He argues that Panofsky gives Suger too much credit and calls into question the innovations Panofsky brought to the Suger conversation: the Abbot’s connection to St. Bernard and his status as an intellect. Kidson goes on to address these points thoroughly through analysis of Suger’s writings. In the last section of his…

unexplainable with the rational. An example of this is when the narrator attributes an “iciness, a sinking, a sinking, a sickening of the heart” merely to the “combination of very natural objects which have power of thus affecting us”(Poe/”Usher”). The gothic imagery that fills “Usher” reflects a style of literature that had emerged during the later eighteenth century and was flourishing…

Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture Of Dorian Gray Main Thesis Wilde uses several echoes within The Picture of Dorian Gray. This central argument is supported by several examples of Dorian Gray acting as double to not only several characters within the novel but within mythology as well. Wilde merges the Gothic and the aesthetic in the book. “The merger is possible, and inevitable, because of the tendency of Gothic writing to present a fantastic…

addition, the main theme of this genre is mystery, in Austen’s novel she makes it blatant the over exaggeration of events and their nonrealism based on Catherine creating misconceptions about the Abbey. These ideas are an influence of the mystery packed, Gothic novels that were the craze of the time; Catherine yearns for adventure and subconsciously creates her own based on what she reads.”[Northanger Abbey’s] long, damp passages, narrow cells and ruined chapel… she could not subdue the hope of…