Gothic language

born. Gothic architecture began in the midst of France during the Medieval period and through this emergence a series of cathedrals were born under the strain of Notre-Dame. One of the most fascinating is the divine Chartres Cathedral of Chartres, France, dedicated to the Virgin Mary (3). Noted as holy, feminine, and secretive the Chartres has been a fabrication of nothing short of extraordinary (2). The Chartres Cathedral is perhaps one of the most exquisite compositions of French High Gothic…

Hyphens, he uses hyphens in many different places , one is ‘I proceeded -- with what caution -- with what foresight’ when we read it we realize that the narrator is jumpy and he had a crazy “like” state of mind. This adds to the tension and suspense in the story. Poe also uses Rhetorical Questions this challenges the reader and then makes the reader ask themselves the question, because it is hard to find the answer; ‘ How then am I mad?’ When the narrator asks this question you don’t know…

A Short Story Analysis on C.P. Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper The short story entitled, “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a gothic horror tale that was later viewed as a story utilizing symbolism to demonstrate repression and disapproval of Victorian patriarchy. This short story made her particularly important in this certain genre of story-writing (Meyering, 4). When the narrator was diagnosed with neurasthenia, which is the chronic mental and physical depression,…

Mockingbird In “ To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee emphasizes the metaphor of a Mockingbird as in the title. She creates themes of innocents being destroyed, social inequality, and importance of a moral figure in a child’s life while using the southern gothic genre. It’s set in a tired old town in Maycomb, Alabama in 1933 during the great depression.Throughout the novel, it addresses the growth of maturity in Atticus's children intelligent, tomboyish girl Jean Louise Finch also known as Scout…

The setting of a story is the place, time, or language that describes where the primary events take place. The setting of a story essentially sets of the basis of the story. It creates limits for the events of the story based off of where they take place, in the aspect of both time and date. Throughout the years, in not only America, but around the world certain types of pieces become very popular for short periods of time. Some of these will come to be known as eras, others just phases in…

In Edgar Allan Poe’s works of gothic literature, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Tell Tale Heart”, “The Raven”, and “Annabel Lee”, Poe uses suspenseful and morbid diction and syntax along with verbal irony to create an eerie mood.First of all, Poe uses…

Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King use literary elements to create horror and suspense. In the novel We Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson masterfully uses multiple literary elements throughout the course of the book. Jackson uses language, word choice, gothic elements, and ideas of mental illness to create a work of subtle suspense and horror and a message that extends beyond the Blackwood mansion. An aspect of horror shown in this novel is the unreliability of the narrator, Merricat,…

Curiosity Killed The Cat! (Close Reading for Frankenstein) Mary Shelly’s gothic novel explicates how the thirst of excessive knowledge and curiosity combined can lead to the demise of the person, not only the person, but the whole society can be put in danger as well. The attainment of a limited amount of knowledge is not considered to be perilous; however if the limits are crossed anything can happen. According to Frankenstein, Victor’s curiosity of perceiving excessive knowledge results in the…

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – first published in 1818 – surely had an influence on Bram Stoker 's 1898 novel Dracula. Both novels are important works of Gothic horror fiction, and both depict monstrous creatures that have become iconic over decades. Each work has similar themes and similar characters. No two are more alike than the titular characters – Doctor Victor Frankenstein and Count Dracula. Looking at the two novels from a psychoanalytic perspective, the parallels between the two are…

Poe usually does this through a first person narration by a young man who mourns the death of his beloved. “To Helen” has been called one of the most beautiful love poems in the English language. Written in first person, the narrator compares his love Helen’s beauty to the classical glory of ancient Greece and Rome: “Thy Naiad airs have brought me home / To the glory that was Greece, / And the grandeur that was Rome” (“Helen” 8-10). Poe’s…