The Premature Burial

What is Gothic Literature? Riding a rollercoaster, hydroplaning on a rainy day, or watching scary movies are all instances where fear arises. Everyone has experienced fear or paranoia at one point or another in their life. Fear is a sensation that can cause anxiety, a sense of unease, agitation, and distress. All people have felt fearful at least once in their lifetime. Although fear is a simple word, it encompasses many different emotions. Fear is a difficult expression to explain, all…

death records of the French population (Satzewich, 2015). In Ontario, the Anglican Diocese of Niagara has maintained burial registers from the 19th century, each of which contain information on deaths of residents in the Hamilton, Ontario region. Church ministers held responsibility for transcribing the name, age, cause of death, and the city of residence of the individual in the burial registers. The recording process may appear objective, but it still remains subject to potential biases.…

In the short story,”Usher II,” it helps readers visualize the setting by using allusion from other pieces of literature so that they could connect it to the story. In the story, Mr, Stendahls biggest challenge is to stop the people who are burning everyone's books. As he is talking to Mr. Bigelow about how important the books are for people, Stendahl states, “As of this day beware. The House of Usher is open for business.” (Bradbury 3). This is an example of allusion because he is talking about…

write the things that he did. In actuality, Poe was an author who crafted beautiful, thought provoking stories about the simple reality of life and death. This can be proven true through several of Poe’s works, including “The Black Cat”, “The Premature Burial”, and several others. Edgar Allen Poe did have an obsession with death, but he shared this obsession in an extremely profound and interesting way so that his readers were intrigued by these concepts as well. The tone, imagery, symbolism,…

Bodies that could not be properly buried were either thrown in mass burial graves, or simply tossed in fields, ditches, mill-ponds, rivers, and bogs3. This alone paints a gloomy image of what famine-stricken Ireland looked like. Interestingly, the surviving number of accounts that convey similar imagery by the famine are…

hero of this play is Creon because he does not know that his actions will bring him such fate until the end, while Antigone is fully aware of the consequence of her action from the very beginning. Creon is not aware that his decree forbidding the burial of Polyneices is unjust and that it will cost him the loss of his family while Antigone knows from the beginning that by burying her brother and breaking the state law, she will be punished by death.…

a more pleasant topic for the audience is when she likens the burial place to an abode; she says “We paused before a House…” (17). Here, the audience imagines a youthful woman being let off at her residence by her spouse. Conversely, as the poet goes on to say next, “A Swelling of the Ground-” (18), it serves as a reminder to the audience that it is in fact a burial place that the woman is being carried to. Further, her place of burial is described as a house where Dickinson says that “The Roof…

Once, America wins its independence from England, writers want to break away from the literary influence of Europe. The new era, of transcendentalism shapes society because writers became involved in describing social reform movements, women’s rights, anti-slavery, and they use “logical thinking” and “experimentation” to make assumptions about spirituality, religion, and nature (Johnson Lewis). The Romantic era, brings about new points of view because people do not want to think about the…

employees and employers. This results in a lost of wages and most importantly a lost of work not completed (Colditz, 1992). Findings found that obese employees miss more days from work due to short-term absences, long-term disability, and even premature death (Colditz, 1992). When days are lost or task are not completed, this puts the business at risk to not thrive smoothly and successful which may affect the business on the day, causing a loss in money made. This also affects the worker(s)…

many of Edgar Allan Poe?s short stories, his characters possess this phantom illness. Poe keeps his readers conflicted about how his ?stable? characters possess a questionable mental state.[endnoteRef:1] Stories like ?The Tell-Tale Heart,? ?The Premature Burial,? ?The Oval Portrait,? and ?Berenice,? illustrate the very plague of insanity taking the form of obsession. Each protagonist is infatuated with either an inanimate object or an abstract idea which drives each over the edge. There are…