Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

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…

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. An example is the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe creates suspense by explaining in the beginning about a man talking about himself about how he was not a madman and then beginning to explain a story. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard…

colonialism in Africa. As an employee for a Belgian ivory trading company, Charlie Marlow experiences these grisly conditions of the Congo; they help to create the dark atmosphere of the novella. The story achieves this effect in part by its use of grotesque imagery throughout the story, which is aided by the first person point of view of Marlow’s story. This horrid imagery aids in creating the inescapable atmosphere of the work. Another method by which Heart of Darkness creates its bleak…

Each house in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations is made to be like the character that lives within it, to emphasize the personalities and characteristics of each person. When Pip first meets Miss Havisham, he thinks of her as weak and grotesque just like her house. He believes that she is just “a skeleton in ashes of a rich dress” (56); when he tours Satis House he is confronted by a house covered in “a great many iron bars” (53) and on the inside it’s filled with “ominous passages” (55)…

“Who entereth herein, a conqueror hath bin; Who slayeth the dragon, the shield he shall win.” (Poe, 1839) These are the words written by a man who was drawn into the darkness of emotions. Specifically, allowed us for many years to confront our fear of death and life itself. Even though individuals can respond differently to the same piece of literature, it goes to show that gothic literature and elements of the gothic have made their way into mainstream writing. Edgar Allan Poe of the author…

In the short story “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” the author sets the scene for the reader. The author sets a dark and depressing scene for the reader. The choice of words used by the author made the reader feel like the narrator was going to a place that itself was dark and desolate. The first impressions the narrator had seen does characterize the rest of the story. The story was dark and depressing. The author uses multiple elements used to set the scene in the opening passage in the rest…

Edgar allen poe is a very unique writer. He tells stories that have a very scary setting. These stories are meant to be suspenseful. He puts characters in situations that we would only have nightmares about. Hd wrote the Pit and the Pendulum and Fll of the House of Usher. In pit and the pendulum,a man is trapped in a room and has no idea were he is. Its dark and he cant see very well. Using his hands to feel around, he uses a piece of cloth to measure the room. He find…

Like Ann in “the Painted Door” , Arthur Vickers of “One’s a Heifer” suffers life changing consequences because of the isolation of his setting. Because of his isolation, Vickers slowly began to become insane. The clearest signs of his insanity is seen through his eyes. They are described as being wavery and uneasy, alternating between warm and welcoming to “ deep and uneasy eyes “ (Ross 418). The author repeatedly mentions the look of his eyes, and put emphasis on their abnormality. His eyes…

“The Landlady” uses many techniques that identify it under the horror genre; such as imagery, foreshadowing, mood/tone, theme, plot/setting, and suspense. Roald Dahl uses imagery in this short story by vividly describing the events that occur. On page one, line 8, the author states, “But the air was deadly cold…” As a reader you can imagine the wind blowing onto your face, and feeling the bitterness, and the chill of the wind on a dark night. Page three, lines 261-263, show the comfort of the…

What makes you scared? Is it what you see, hear, or feel? While reading a book the author writes to put images in our heads. Once we have an image you can find the mood of the story. Imagery in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Windigo” helped create the mood of fear. In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allen Poe used dark words to create the mood of fear. The first sentence of the story says “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year,…