The Grotesque

brand of literature told by Faulkner, Southern Gothic style, which was popular in the nineteenth century. This style emphasized the culture of the south, with hints of post-civil war slavery sentiments and social hierarchies. Faulkner incorporates grotesque themes, such as necrophilia and brings to life odd acting characters with strange behaviors. His protagonist, Emily is no exception in the category of strangeness. The tale is told in an out of order fashion and vacillates between past…

The first important factor that needs to be consider when investigating Jack the Ripper case is the location and background of the community that the murders were found in. The area that the murders were found was in Whitechapel which is in the east end of London. Whitechapel was an area of poverty in London. William Rubinstein writes, “Whitechapel . . . was synonymous with urban poverty and squalor. . . According to Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London, (1891-1903), the…

Laura Evans Dr. Heather McPherson ARH 204 10/30/17 The Great Day of His Wrath During the 19th – century, art evolved into the movement know as Romanticism. The Romanticism movement influenced a determination to achieve freedoms of worship, speech, and feeling. The Romantics sought to express these new found freedoms through imaginative and emotional artworks. A primary element of the Romanticism period was the increased interest in the sublime. The sublime was a product of the dark middle ages,…

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the upper-class is divided into the old money at East Egg and the new money in West Egg, however both the West Egg and East Egg both equally ignore the gruesome living conditions of the lower-class living in the Valley of Ashes. This picture symbolizes the lively and more reckless West Egg, the class and etiquette of East Egg, and the weight that both of them impose on the Valley of Ashes, taking advantage of them with their wealth and…

baby Jesus and St. Elizabeth with her son John the Baptist lying dead on the floor while there are two angels above them. It was produced by Italian artist, Rosso Fiorentino in year 1521. Fiorentino’s representation of the virgin and child is very grotesque that some of the art viewers believe this painting is not considered to be part of high renaissance because the holy figures are not classical idealize. I totally disagree with them because it was created during this era, and also the artist…

Victoria Santiago Mr. Werner American Literary Experience- B Block April 28, 2016 Flannery O’Connor Abstract This paper will analyze the influence that the South Atlantic, specifically Georgia has had on the writing of Flannery O’Connor. The majority of O’Connor’s writing was influenced not only by the geographic aspect of Georgia but the culture and customs and norms of the people that lived there. In theses categories religion plays a very big role, and as O’Connor being a catholic and being…

In contrast to the tradition of post-mortem photography, Serrano's modern interpretation in The Morgue illustrates emotional tragedies experienced by the subject that are portrayed through grotesque trauma. It is evident from the nature of Andres Serrano’s work that he has a profound interest in, or perhaps obsession with, life, death and mortality. There is a tension between his photographic directness and a theatrically baroque stylization of his provocative themes that are characteristic of…

heavily on "rapid movement and growth" which is later contrasted "by sluggishness and greyness that seems to overwhelm the landscape and those within it". The girls believe that Fitzgerald compared the growth of "fantastic farms" to the places like "grotesque gardens". Fitzgerald uses the manipulation of one's mind to believe that we are seeing one thing and then changing the color or the character's behavior to reflect another thing. Blair and Kingsbury argue that many people are "submerged…

The American Dream is universally sought after and coveted, after all the possibility of becoming anything and rising above one 's meeger beginnings is tantalizing. However, the American Dream can also produce destruction and devastation. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the destructive nature of the American Dream through his characters Myrtle, Tom, Gatsby, Daisy, and Wilson and through his symbolic use of dust. Set in the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald’s novel focuses on these…

the description of the houses and “grime of endless mills,” the houses being “...streaked in grime with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks.” There’s no positivity being described here, whatsoever only emphasizing the grotesque looks of these towns. As these images are being brought to the reader’s mind through imagery, the working and middle class is being criticized by…