The Omen

From deals with the devil, corrupt churches, and the decaying body of a lifeless baby, Matthew Lewis’s The Monk is the paradigm of the gothic novel. The main setting of the novel is the church, a place of barbaric and inhumane practices. Deep in the dungeons are prison cells for deviating nuns who are starved and tormented by the head nuns. The Monk, title role of the novel, belongs to the main character who is perhaps the most malevolent and cruel. The novel is the ideal example of a gothic…

have with cars. The first lesson is that the vehicles may represent one’s personality. After his mother thought Harold died in a chemistry explosion at school, he realized that he enjoys being dead. Therefore, Harold drives a hearse, symbolizing an omen for death. Later in the movie, his mother gives him a new Jaguar, a small and sporty car,…

How would it feel if everything you had was taken away from you out of greed? I am a Native America from the now called Georgia region near the great mass of water. During the time of harvest the tribe began noticing large amount of white people passing along the area and building many structures, hunting our animals, and running some of our sister tribes away from their lands. My job was to bring fur and meat to the tribe and it was getting scarcer every season. A feeling of being overrun just…

In today’s world gods are seen to be by most as omnipotent and omniscient beings. They are seen to be so intricate that the human mind cannot grasp the complexity of their being. Today the gods of the ancient world are seen to have been ruthless and all powerful when compared to a human. On the contrary, the texts The Metamorphoses by Ovid, and Daphnis and Chloe by Longus show a different view of the gods then what they are known as today. The texts show that in ancient times the gods were…

The culture and tradition of Umoufia rely heavily on the nature based gods that they worship in hopes of gaining protection from weather, bad omens, and bountiful crops. This creates conflict with the white Christian missionary’s concept of one almighty god. Mr. Brown, one of the white missionaries in Umoufia, although attempts to be respectful, is abhorrent to the fact the people of Umoufia are…

The Raven The raven is one of the first poems that was created for the purposeses of horror or gothic purposes. The poem is closely related to the author and his feeling of lose towards his wife Virginia that had only died the year before. The Raven starts off with the narrator in his room with a gloomy setting showing his loss and desperation to his beloved Lenore. The death of Lenore can represent Virginia in the real life of the author.A normal person would not hear about or read that there…

King Arthur was a film made based on the tale of Arthur and his knights. Throughout this story of the great hero Arthur, steps of the common hero’s journey and many literary elements were frequently exemplified. The film focused on the history and politics during the period in which Arthur ruled; a time when the Roman empire had collapsed and battles for power broke out in outlying countries. The Romans were impressed by the Sarmatian people’s fighting skills and in order for them to be spared,…

The Aztecs were ethnic groups of central Mexico who grew to conquer large areas Mesoamerica known as the Aztec Empire. The Incan Empire was a civilization along the coast of South America that conquered neighboring regions through their military strengths. While both the Aztecs and Incas had similar social hierarchies consisting of the elite, government officials, and commoners, the Aztecs had no structured form of government only paying tributes to officials compared to the Incas’ military ran…

ABSTRACT The gothic novel, albeit not considered high literature, counts among the most distinctive literary genres. The literary form was at its prime in late 18th century, although its days of glory have past elements of the Gothic can be found even in contemporary literature. Over the centuries, several sub-genres of the gothic novel have developed, including Southern Ontario Gothic. This branch of the Gothic is characterized by criticism of social attitudes towards race, politics, gender and…

incoming death of the old man. The narrator mentions “He was still sitting up in the bed listening; – just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall” (death watches or beetles, their clicking was thought to be an omen of death) (Backpack Literature 43). This further supports the interpretation, that indeed time was foreshadowing the incoming death of the old man.The bedroom and the bed is another great symbol used in the short story, although it symbolizes…