Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

enables him to conceive truly and to maintain a proper relation off parts, while the second quality fills up and colours. Both of these traits, have been displayed by Poe with an unique sharpness in is prose works, the last predominating in his earlier tales, and the first in his first ones. Іn hіs talеs, Ροе has chοsеn tο еxhіbіt hіs maіnlу рοwеr whіch strеtchеs frοm thе еxtrеmе lіmіts οf thе рrοbablе іntο thе wеіrd suреrstіtіοn οf unrеalіtу.…

Momento Mori is a short story written by, Jonathan Nolan in 2001. It published in the Esquire magazine and was largely accepted by the audience as well as accredited by the critics. The story revolves around a man named ‘Earl’ who is suffering from a disease known from the acronym CRS. This disease creates a situation of a short term memory loss (which causes Earl to lose his memories within ten to fifteen minutes), described in the story as “backwards amnesia”. Another element which complicates…

James Fenimore Cooper’s, The Last of the Mohicans, is undoubtedly very violent and dark in its nature but underneath all the action lies a deeper meaning. Both articles, “Narrative Structure and Historical process in the Last of the Mohicans,” and, “The Last of the Mohicans and the Sounds of Discord,” are helpful in addressing the gothic stylistic ties within the novel, but differ on their main thesis. The article regarding narrative and historical process focuses more on the initial formation…

Edgar Allan Poe is known as a gothic writer. However, one of his short stories stands out above the rest. That story is the one of ´Ẃilliam Wilson´. It displays many effects of gothic literature. William Wilson inspired many films to follow its tropes that were included. The twist ending revealed that Wilson had imagined ´Wilson´ in his head the whole time and that he had just stabbed himself. You know this because "You have conquered, and I yield. Yet henceforward art thou also dead -- dead to…

The novel is written in a dark, melancholic, and nightmarish mood, having a “black-and-white” air. It is written with an austere style of a monotonous-sounding prose. Overall, the environment is implied as dreary-looking, as seen from Winston’s eyes. As a matter of fact, the plot setting is simply a fictitious version of mid-1950’s geopolitical map. Just as the actual history saw three spheres of influence dominate the world, namely the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was the…

magic(Muhleman).”this adds on to the fact that the Whatley’s are sunned and avoid at all cost because of the ties with santinsim and black magic. The author says that Lavinia is “living with an aged and half insane father about whom the most frightful tales of wizardry had been whispered in his youth(Lovecraft).” Lovecraft uses magic and wizardry to support the theme of terror in the…

¨ True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? ¨ This quote, taken from the story ¨ The Tell-Tale Heart ¨, by Edgar Allan Poe shows a mood of confusion and disbelief because he saying he is not crazy too but he sounds crazy. In the story ¨ The Tell-Tale Heart ¨, a man is asking why they think he is crazy, he had killed a man, he had nothing against him. It was only because the old man had a vulture eye and he hated it. Every night he watched…

Edgar Allan Poe used the literary device of setting to create a dark, threatening tone in his short story “Tell-Tale Heart” by using mood and atmosphere, population,and time/of day. Poe used mood and atmosphere to make the readers feel like if they were in the story. You can see this when he wrote”I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed so no light shone out”(538:2). That is part of atmosphere setting because it contributes to the feeling of…

Short stories are “an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot.” (Merriam – Webster) These can have many differences and similarities. These factors could be the setting, the plot, the characters, point of view, tone, symbolism, theme, language, narrated time, content and more. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he…

Literary Analysis of “Roy Spivey” by Miranda July Miranda July, a film director and author, publishes a fictional work of art that allows her audience to experience regret from a weird encounter, between a unnamed narrator and a famous actor, named “Roy Spivey,” which is an anagram for his real name, and coincidentally the name of the story. Through her short story that was published in The New Yorker, July sparks conversation about quirkiness, adultery, regret, and life. July begins her story…