Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

It is a tale with the bold and bright introspection of spectral mysteries that is very much credible to the readers of for its supernatural rapture. Defining supernatural, Coleridge’s comment, “willing suspension of disbelief” is very much applicable here for its…

ever dared to dream before,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe in his Gothic poem “The Raven.” Poe, born in 1809, was an American gothic poet and writer, who penned short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Also among his oeuvre are the poems “Annabel Lee,” and “The Raven,” along with many other works. Poe’s gothic literature is infused with examples of macabre diction and advanced syntax. Poe is known worldwide today for his gothic style…

Baldwin 1 Brittany Baldwin Hensley English 11/second period 27 Februrary 2018 Part 12: Rough Draft#1 Ambrose Bierce short story The Boarded Window is very interesting, when you read The Boarded Window you think that it’s just about a man and his wife that had pass when he was young but it’s very grim at the middle and the end of the story. Bierce new how to get the reader interested in the story. At the end of the story he really threw off the reader, in the short story The Boarded Window…

Poe’s speciality is to leave loose ends and dozens of interpretations, all of them intertwined in the topic of the double. Therefore, the tale is at first a nest of doubles. The madman and the old man are at the centre of this horrible tale in which one is murdered by the other, and the most important aspect of their duality might be there, on the line of the madman’s retelling of the events, since one of the main aspects of Poe’s fiction is the one of the narrator’s unreliability. Should we…

Lord of the Flies (Symbolism) Symbolism is present in the books we read. Symbolism develops the plot of a story and creates depth and detail to the characters. Books include symbolism that is significant to the story and pushes the story further. For example in the book, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the main characters all symbolize a trait. Piggy, one of the main characters, represents intelligence and obedience. Jack, another main character, suggests the character of savagery.…

For example an old foresight, which is commonly dull, inadequate, or frustrating, and connected with the house in a wide open or its inhabitants, either past or show; dream vision or indication of coming events; remarkable animals and events, for instance, inert things awakening; woman crippled by an extraordinary, hasty, or tyrannical man, who asks for the female to achieve something unbearable, are not shown in the novel. Then again other Gothic segments adding to an atmosphere of mystery can…

In Tennessee William’s 1945 play, “The Glass Menagerie” we are provided with many stage directions that help the audience understand the plays important aspects of the setting, as well as its central idea. The narrator and protagonist Tom Wingfield, takes the audience on a journey to a past memory of his life with his mother Amanda Wingfield, sister Laura Wingfield, and Jim O’Conner. In the play we are introduced to memory set in the city of St. Louis were Amanda yearns for her daughter Laura,…

The Fall of The House of Usher, was not a disappointment. The short story was another tale that Edgar Allen Poe captured his gloomy, dark, and unsettling way. At times I am thankful that I left the lights on while reading this story right before bed as I am easily prone to bad dreams. From the beginning, of the first paragraph I was entrapped by Poe’s description of his ride to the House of Usher. His descriptive words make the picture so clear in my mind that I can almost see myself riding…

“The Pedestrian” is an interesting one for me as it is very unconventional, especially when comparing it to the likes of the previous short stories we read, like “The Tell-Tale Heart” or “Marigolds”. In these stories, the plot was outlined, in a way, so that we could identify how the story might end, and why it ended that way. The story uses heavy amounts of imagery to help convey the loneliness and an empty quietness of the town in which the narrator resides. A heavy line which the author…

of Gothic and horror stories. He has wrote many works of mysterious characters and very bizarre plots lines. Of all his morbid works, they all have a commonality in setting, characters, and Gothic elements in The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Masque of the Red Death. Moreover, Poe has written work with similarities in settings. They all compose of a dark, mysterious atmosphere usually during the night and consisting of a natural event happening. They also happened in…