Stephen Schwartz

Gothic horror is considered to be an offshoot of literary Romanticism, because of their having many traits in common. Both are focused on emotions and commenced in the 18th century as the objection to the Enlightenment and its significance of rationality. These genres were also inspired by medieval literary works and imported its typical settings, superhuman characters and appearance of preternatural events. Spiritualism, the faith that dead people’s spirits can contact with the living, thrived…

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson was published on June 26, 1948. Some of her other works include “The Haunting of Hill House”, “Hangsaman”, And “The Sundial”. Jackson is known for many things but mostly for her Horror/Mystery stories as they are known to captivate the reader. Shirley Jackson is a very prolific author because she to brings a unique form of writing to her readers. This is seen through her many novels and short stories as the reader is greeted with something new in each one. “The…

Waking up abruptly, covered in a cold sweat, and feeling like an indescribable force has just smacked life in its face may not be the best way to realize that a nightmare has just occured. But is this the same phenomenon that Henry Fuseli thought of when he painted The Nightmare? While Fuseli often made his paintings related to fantastic and gothic themes, but this painting may have had much more behind it. The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli could express secretivity and immorality because of the…

The novel “The Castle of Otranto” is written by the well-known predecessor of the gothic fiction – the author Horace Walpole. He contributed greatly to the Gothic genre and inspired a lot of famous authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Daphne du Maurier. His novel was published in 1529, but it is well-known that it was written a lot earlier, supposedly around the era of the first Crusade. In his work, Horace Walpole attempts to combine Old Romance with New Romance – supernatural elements and…

The Sociology of The Green Mile The Green Mile, directed and produced by Frank Darabont in December 1999 was a movie based on the novel written by Stephen King. The movie starts off in a Louisiana prison taking place on death row. The main character Paul Edgecombe performed by Tom Hanks described how they referred to the death row of this specific prison as the Green Mile because of the faded lime colored floor. Paul talks about how he has encountered many prisoners on death row for various…

The Mortal Instrument: City of Bones is based on the first novel in Cassandra Claire’s six-book young adult romance/ fantasy series. It is a reaction to Stephenie Meyer’s sparkly- vampire- vs. werewolves- with- six packs saga. It is a popular series of young adult sci- fi/ fantasy/ romance novels. It is about the story of a teenage girl who develops paranormal gift to see different symbols that are invisible to normal people. It is a 2013 film based on the book written by Cassandra Claire and…

Chapter two Form the beginning in the movie and the short story we are introduced to Mike Enslin who writes books about haunted places. His books Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted are best sellers, but he internally shows some insecurity and guilt due to his hypocrisy, he believes in the existence of ghost other hand in his books he doesn’t believe in paranormal or in supernatural phenomena. Enslin hates his…

You can’t always make someone do something, no matter how hard you try. There still seems to be those few who honestly couldn’t care less, unlike us good, genuine students. They don’t give a crap about what is going on and are just floating in the ocean, hoping that a wave will come push them to the shore. Often times confused with being lazy, or even just plain stupid, a slacker is his or her own kind of issue. Someone who slacks off doesn’t just not do work . No- a slacker is so much worse…

Review about the movie:- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an amazing and impressive piece of film-making from director Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth. It is a film of hope, where director explains it beautifully how “Hope is a good thing”. Movie shows the ugly realities on life of Prison and its day to day life. There is a lot of scope of learning during free time in prison whether it is art or literature. The film portrays the story of Andy…

künstlerroman written in a modernist style, we see the religious and intellectual awakening of the fictional alter ego of James Joyce named Stephen Dedalus. We see the struggles Stephen are faced with as he grows up and these struggles are his family, morality, religion and nationality. As these struggles between Stephen and the above issues progresses Stephen reaches a point in his life where he decides to reject the different bonds he has with his family, morality, religion and nationality and…