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ABSTRACT Petro Marko is an outstanding personality of modern Albanian literature, a writer of European and global scale. He is a remarkable poetry and prose writer, publicist and translator as well as a warrior in the International Brigades of the Spainish Civil War. One of his most popular works is the children’s novel “The Pirates’ Cave”. The work recounts imaginary events, which the author connects with some aspects of reality and with his hometown events. In the center of the plot, there are…

In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García-Márquez, Márquez uses structure and magical realism to make Santiago’s death inevitable, highlighting the idea that fate is inescapable, and that it outweighs ideals such as truth or justice. In part one, the reader learns that the novel is written from what seems to be the perspective of an old friend of Santiago’s who is piecing together the events leading up to Santiago’s death, 27 years after Santiago has died. The narrator puts…

INTRODUCTION The aim of this essay is to give an explicit overview of the gothic elements in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The main point of interest concerns the haunted house which is a typical feature of gothic literature. At the beginning the readers is introduced to the story through a summary. This will be followed by a general explanation of the gothic genre and its typical features. Furthermore the outer appearance of the mansion and the thereby upcoming unpleasant…

Revenge is a dominate theme throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Cask of Amontillado”. Poe uses symbolism and characterization to develop the theme of revenge that Montresor seeks on Fontunado. This use of symbolism and characterization illuminates the achievement of Montresor’s revenge with the ultimate sacrifice of Fortunado’s death. This revenge reveals a darker side of the human psyche. To reveal this darker side, Poe’s vivid descriptions of his characters allow for understanding of their…

The Fall of the House of Usher is a story written by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe as many of us know was a famous author because all his stories and poems were written in a sense of terror or mystery and that's what caught the attention of many people. As many of us know Edgar Allan Poe wrote his stories in a sense of terror and mystery and "The Fall of the House of Usher" was not an exception. This story also contains romanticism due to the age it was written, at first…

In “The Uncanny,” Sigmund Freud writes about “that class of terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar” (Freud 2-3). “Uncanny” is defined here as uncomfortable, uneasy, gloomy, ghastly, and (of a house) haunted (2). Freud also mentions it as darkness, silence, and solitude (20). _____. The following dream illustrates Freud’s description of the uncanny as being fearful and uneasy. Freud refers to uncanny as being a class of something terrifying that leads back…

Gothic elements are used exquisitely and meticulously in gothic-era short stories to captivate the type of mood the author is portraying for the reader. Examples of this are exemplified in: “The Devil and Tom Walker” by: Washington Irving, “The Feather Pillow” by: Horacio Quiroga, “A Rose for Emily” by: William Faulkner, “The Black Cat” by: Edgar Allan Poe, “Prey” by: Richard Matheson, and “The Raven” by: Edgar Allan Poe. Specifically, are significant because they utilize ambiguity and…

Book Title: The Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the world’s most unlikely holiday destinations. By Dom Joly. Simon & Schuster, United Kingdom, London. 2nd Edition. ISBN 978-1-84739-846-8. 279 pages. Background of author Dom Joly wrote the book, titled The Dark Tourist in 2009. The book was first published and printed by Simon and Schuster in the United Kingdom, London, in 2010. Another edition was published in 2011. Dominic John Joly, also known as Dom Joly, was born on 15th November 1967, who is…

Living house In the story “The Fall of the Usher House” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is insane or dreaming. The entire story is a projection of his mind. In the story the narrator is going to visit his boyhood friend and his sister who are terribly ill, the sister dies and is thought to be buried alive, resurrects as a ghost. When her brother sees his sisters ghost, it scares him to death. The narrator runs out of the house, when he looks back the house rips in half and sinks to the bottom…

Camille Pissarro’s The Banks of the Marne in Winter,1866 challenges the conventions of provincial landscapes through the depopulation and spatial organization of the romantic countryside present in Constant Troyon’s The Marsh,1840. Both Troyon and Pissarro’s large scale works depict provincial French landscapes complete with peasant women and wide reaching skies, however the methods used in the two paintings are disparate enough to bring forward arguments about the inherent modernity in…