Southern Gothic

Arjun Srivatsa Chad Hayden 12 October 2015 The Scarlet Letter Essay (2015 FRQ 3) The Scarlet Letter is a novel centered on contrasts. Contrasts between outward reputation and inner guilt, puritanical law and true sin, and intentions and actions, create a dynamic of hypocrisy, a hypocrisy that infects and slowly debilitates all those involved. Specifically, acts of cruelty are used as vehicles through which Hawthorne delivers his indictment of duplicity and hypocrisy. In The Scarlet Letter…

T-rex was a massive carnivore; he was, but despite common theory was only 40 feet long and 14 feet tall (cs3). An encounter with such a colossal leviathan would scare the toughest of men into a state of fear; terrified they will plea to escape from the jaws of death (cs2). Ray Bradbury’s plot really keeps his audience guessing and thinking as to what is to come in the future. The short story, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury uses figurative language, tone, and imagery to create the mood of…

Authors create suspense by explaining the setting, character’s characteristics, and use of phrases in a different way than usual. Authors create suspense in the beginning of whatever they are writing so that they can hook the reader into the story so that they will continue to read on. Explaining things in an unusual way forms suspense because you wonder what is happening and you see that something bad is happening. Authors create suspense in many different ways that keeps the reader reading.…

Denis in France. As discussed by Soltes (2011), although the origins of Romanesque architecture are vague; the Gothic style that followed specifically came about upon the completion of the Chartres Cathedral outside of Paris in 1250. This is the first of the Gothic style buildings in which buttresses were used as a structural element that categorized the overall external appearance of the building. Rather than Romanesque buttresses pushed…

A bold juxtaposition of real and fantastical worlds is at the heart of Guillermo Del Toro’s visually striking, 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth. Through the application of audacious stylistic techniques, Del Toro creates a mesmerising, yet haunting cinematic experience. The lush binding of lighting, camera, and sound techniques are used to morph between eerie fairy-tale escapades and a horrific reality to create a film which expresses the value of imagination. The colour palette and its association…

Like many forms of folktales, Fairy tales serve as enduring classics which ubiquitously permeate our culture. “Pans Labyrinth” or “El laberinto del fauno” by Guillermo Del Toro is a profound 2006 cinematic film which idiosyncratically serves as a spiritual successor to the traditional fairy tale genre. A dark and forebodingly twisted fantasy---Pan’s labyrinth is set in a period of history when the fascist Franco regime was in power. The underlying patriarchal society, the prominent illustration…

“Why should I apologize for the monster I have become? No one ever apologized for making me this way.”- The Joker. So, what makes everyone so captivated by monsters in society, and more importantly, how they became that way? From what I have seen, it’s a combination of many things. It is a combination of everyone seeing a monster inside themselves as well as the desire to see someone fall so far that they are willing to do anything to get what they want. Also, the road from innocence to…

Essay Response: Northanger Abbey The power of the Gothic genre lies in its ability to shock and terrify its audience Whilst the Gothic genre aims to evoke strong emotions from the reader such as fear, shock and terror, its power derives more from the lessons an audience learns than from the simple need to scare. Northanger Abbey differs from Austen’s other novels as it employs gothic elements in order to parody the genre. There is nothing shocking or terrifying in the novel, yet Austen still…

Hellsing Ultimate is a Japanese animated series that has been popularized for ultraviolence and gore involving vampire characters. It is based on the original manga, Hellsing, written by Kouta Hirano, which was published from 1997 to 2001 through Young King OURs magazine, while the collected chapters published by Shonen Gahosha. Hirano published Hellsing: The Dawn from 2001 to 2009, as a prelude to Hellsing to provide additional backgrounds to the original work. Hellsing is the story about…

vaults, internal elevations of multiple stories, rounded arches and thick walls. This was characterized as Romanesque architecture. One day, a man named Suger changed everything. He reworked these ideas introduced to the world the now known Gothic architecture. Gothic architecture was a big role-player during the Renaissance. But everything started when Suger decided to reinvent the traditional heavy Romanesque Abbey Church of Saint-Denis into a free-flowing monastic building. In this essay I…