Southern Gothic

Court Case Mr. Smith The killer, Mr. Smith has left the court wondering if he was sane or insane at the time he commited the murder of Mr. Johnson. Mr. Smith stated that he can hear many things in heaven, earth, and hell and that the madness has driven his senses further. A typical sane person would not state that they can hear things in heaven, earth and hell and try to convince people that they are sane. Mr. Smith is showing the court that he is clearly insane by stating that madness has…

“The Bride” Director: Svyatoslav Podgayevsky Genre: Horror/Mystery/Thriller Screenplay: Svyatoslav Podgayevsky Producers: Vladislav Severtsev, Dmitry Litvinov, Zaur Bolotayev Starring: Victoria Agalakova, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Alexandra Rebenok, Igor Khripunov, Lada Churovskaya and Victor Solovyov. Synopsis: The new Russian horror movie “The Bride” from the director of “Estate 18” and “The Queen of Spades: The Black Ritual” unravels the terrible traditions and rituals that used to…

Meredith Gentry is a series of novels featuring the lead character Meredith Gentry, authored by Laurell K. Hamilton a bestselling urban fantasy fiction writer. The first novel of the Meredith Gentry series of novels featuring the character was the 2000 published A Kiss of Shadows. Meredith Gentry otherwise known as Merry Gentry is a fairy princess turned amateur sleuth in a fantasy world where fairies are fashionable and popular. She lives in Los Angeles in California and hides from her family…

Killer is the third in the series Pretty Little Liars. It was written by Sara Shepard, and was published by HarperTeen on June 30th, 2009. This book can be classified as a mystery, drama, crime-fiction, or suspense book. It contains a total of 321 nail-biting pages. This is the third book I have read in the series out of 16 in all. I enjoy reading this series because I never have a boring time reading them. The writer's purpose for composing this book is to bring down the rate of children that…

Fagin represents a time in London that was corrupt, disorganized, and old. Dickens emphasizes the old London in Fagin by connecting him to the streets, he states, “The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch. It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew to be abroad. As he glided steadily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old…

Narrator: As I’m in bed sleeping, around midnight, I wake up hearing a voice, a deep, raspy voice. It takes me to the top of a mountain, where I encounter a man with a clown costume. It never said its name, but it told me that the world would end in 13 days, right at midnight. I went back home in the morning to firetrucks and ambulances surrounding my house. I see my friend, Melissa, standing beside a tree crying. I went up to her to ask her what had happened. In great relief she hugged me and…

lor Professor Brenda L. Escudero English 2327-106 7 October 2017 Damsels of Death: An Analysis of Death and Women in Edgar Allan Poe’s Literature We are what we know. That statement couldn’t be any truer when describing Edgar Allan Poe. To understand this uniquely grim and tragic man’s literature you’d have to understand the pieces of his life that resurface time and time again in his work. Almost like a ghost, there are themes within his works that seem to haunt his settings and characters;…

A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine was written by the author Mike Jay and tells the story of James Tilly Matthews. The story provides us with a vivid picture of the psychiatry, political and social aspects of the late eighteenth-century and shows the importance to present incidences of madness, conspiracies, mind control and manipulation. Matthews was introduced to the audience reading the book by interrupting a debate in the House of Commons. He…

Another one was his short stories mostly about mystery got very popular and he got known for his poems and short stories. Also he introduced the new genre, gothic and made it okay to write about it in poems because most of his poems were about that. Introducing an okay way to write gothic themes in poems inspired many other poets to write about gothic themes and they were very thankful for Poe. Conclusion: I think Edgar Allan Poe is considered an important historical figure because he had…

“His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world.”(Austen, p.8) “His appearance was greatly in his favor; he had all the best part of beauty, a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address.” (Austen, p. 54) In “Pride and Prejudice” two men of stark contrast in character, weave their way into the life of young, charming Elizabeth Bennet. The first, named Mr. Darcy, presents himself as a rich snob. The second, Mr. Wickham, flaunts his amiable…