Stephen King

Gothic literature shares many of the same themes to show a sense of fear, horror, mental state, and paranoia through supernatural beings along with literal and psychological entrapment. This set of themes is exemplified by authors Richard Matheson, Washington Irving, and the forefather of gothic literature Edgar Allan Poe in their gothic short stories. From these stories the theme of supernatural beings is prevalent to provide an indication of fear and horror. Poe deliberately uses this to show…

Gothic Techniques “I became insane, with short intervals of horrible sanity.” Gothic literature originates from Horace Wadpole’s “A Gothic Story” in 1764. The use of the word was intended to be a joke, until Poe picked up the style and made it popular. Some of what Poe used to capture attention was unreliable narrators, macabre, and gloomy settings. In “The Black Cat”, Poe uses unreliable narrators by using the line “For the most wild, yet most homely narrative I am about to pen, I neither…

English 200 Gothic Literature Spring 2016 Dr. D. Logan Your name Aulani Little Date: April 12, 2016 Part one. Short answers. 5 @ 10 = 50 points. 1. Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” – discuss the gothic elements by quoting specific lines from the poem: Setting: The setting was a dark gloomy stormy night. The narrator, Porphyria Lover, states “The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake…” Character: The primary character were Porphyria and her mysterious lover…

Elements of Gothic Literature Many authors incorporate gothic element in their work to affect the reader’s emotions. In the novel Miss. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs and the short stories The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe contain the gothic elements of the supernatural, death/ pain/ blood, and psychological issues to enhance the reader’s reaction. Miss peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children and The Raven contain the gothic…

Introduction Monsters are scary but fantastic! Arguably, the world would be boring if we did not have monsters to scare us and inculcate in us the need to have their power and capabilities. While some monsters are a real cause of fear to people in a society, it is apparent that we need them for coping with our daily fears (Jacobsen, 2016). The horror and terror expressed by the monsters such as the zombies show what human beings wish to become. Their influence makes people secretly aspire to be…

Halloween is time to scare and be scared. But many of the scary pictures that qualify as the World's scariest pictures go beyond scaring. Some create a chill in the mind because of the horrifying true stories that are associated with them. Others are scary because the mind fears impending death or injury. Many are just the photographers reporting the existence of such things. Others are manipulation of mind by the so called cinematographers and artists some of whom are con to create that creepy…

We as a society like to be entertained in all sorts of manner. Most like to laugh, some like to cry, some like to feel the warmth in their heart from love, then there are the few who like to be scared. We like to feel the adrenaline running through our veins our blood pumping, and our heart racing just from being scared. Somehow we find joy in being scared whether it through a scary movie or horror novel that we are currently reading, we have to give thanks to the man who started this genre with…

Task one Horror is a sub-genre of film there are three main sub-genres to horror 1 psychological horror – the story will be about the character’s fear, guilt and beliefs 2 supernatural horror – these films have ghosts and demon’s aliens etc. as the villains with impossible abilities 3 slasher horror – they have a psycho often in a mask killing high school kids in an isolated buildings or towns they often set ate night time to made it scarier. Often the villain will jump out of closets and…

you least expect to find it” (Sachi, page. 148). The speaker of this evocative and telling quotation is the diffident Sachi; this line is uttered when she is confabulating with Stephen alone in her meek house in the village of Yamaguchi after the preceding fire is doused out. After Matsu and Hiro-san go to bed, Stephen sneaks out into Sachi’s garden where she finds her musing upon her sentiments of anxiety. Shortly thereafter, Sachi practically divulges her whole story behind her life by…

(2) Explore the power of fear in the novel. Fear was quite a powerful factor in this novel. It was the root of most, if not all, changes in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Fear caused many things in this book, one of which being the outcome of this book. Fear drove Okonkwo, the leading character in this book who is known for his strength and grit, to take his own life at the end of the novel. Okonkwo knew “that Umuofia would not go to war” against the colonizing Christians (205).…