Comparing Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children And Black Cat

Various authors develop their stories using gothic themes and characterizations of this type to lay the foundation for their desired reader response. Although Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Peter Taylor’s “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” are two completely different narratives, both of these stories share a commonality of gothic text representations. The stories take slightly different paths, with Poe’s signifying traditional gothic literature and Taylor approaching his story in a more contemporary manner.

Gothic literature is a style of writing dating back to 1764, some of the most important elements of this writing style are of an eerie setting and mental decay, stories that made great use of these elements are: “The Raven”, “Black Cat”, “The House of Usher”, and “The Devil and Tom Walker”. The authors use the gothic element of eerie setting so that they can enhance the mood of the story and of mental decay to highlight what the conflict in the characters’ lives is causing.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, a new literary genre sprung up, the Gothic story. In the United States, the most prominent exponent of Gothic fiction was Edgar Allen Poe, whose “horror” tales conjure up the dark side that many of us at least half-believe is hidden just beneath the surface of the most conventional lives. In this paper we will discuss the Gothic in light of two of Poe’s stories, “Ligeia”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and contrast Poe’s story with a somewhat dark tale of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, “The Minister’s Black Veil.” We will also analyze why Poe’s stories are Gothic’s and Hawthorne’s is not.

Gothic literature is a literary genre that began in england in the late 1700’s that “Gothic” refers to medieval buildings, such as castles that were seen typically as dark, dreary, gloomy and mysterious which inspired a mood for many books. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a good of example of gothic literature because it had a gloomy tone commonly found in most gothic literature. This can be found in the first paragraph when the narrator says “ a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit”. This shows“The Fall of the House of Usher” is gothic literature because it sets up a gothic tone in the first paragraph.

Gothic literature has been criticized as being a dreary, dark, and death-involving subset of Romanticism (a literary movement accentuating human individuality, imagination, and subjectivity). In addition, gothic lit incorporates several themes- not all about deathly acts - but includes some emotional and surprising themes such as dreams, nightmares, or hallucinations, and grotesque or bizarre occurrences. Two short stories, both written by Edgar Allan Poe, entitled “The Raven,” and “The Black Cat,” as well as the novel The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, all encompass these gothic elements, found throughout each story.

Within the two works of literature, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, the authors ingrain the gothic element of mystery into the story. Within Riggs’s novel the protagonist, Jacob finds his grandfather in the woods and he has immense

Gothic literature can be produced in many different ways because of the variation of gothic elements an author can use. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, written by Ransom Riggs, the author uses gothic literature to pull out emotions from the reader that are hard to pull in other kinds of writing. Along with Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga, and The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe. All of these literature works use gothic elements such as fascination with the past, monsters, and psychological issues to tug at these emotions that are hard to pull at using other types of literature styles.

Most people feel categorized in some way. For example, if you were a carpenter, but you enjoy writing, then you belong in both of those “worlds.” While reading the books, Cinder, by Marissa Meyer, and the book, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, I found myself asking the question, can you really belong in two places? In the book, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the story is about a boy who wanted to visit the place where his grandfather's old stories took place, but when he got there, it was burnt down, but further inspection he found his way to the house and lost himself in a world before his time, not knowing whether this world, or the normal world, was the right one for him. And in the book, Cinder, it's about a cyborg girl who doesn't know if she should be in the castle or in a workshop fixing up broken gadgets, living as a test subject, or even on a different planet. Thinking further into this question, I pondered how did both Marissa Meyer and Ransom

Through the use of common themes incorporated into gothic literature, Edgar Allen Poe and Anne Rice create universal appeal to their readers. Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven and Dream Within A Dream all create paradoxes whether within the characters self or in society.

Kids always dream of a magical world where they get to do whatever they want and be whoever they want to be. Most of the time, they create these wonderlands to escape reality and the problems that they may be encountering in their real lives. In the films Alice in Wonderland and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, both main characters had a wonderland of their own that helped them cope with the struggles they endured. Alice created hers when she was a little girl. It gave her entertainment, which she did not have in her normal life. Jacob, on the other hand, had his grandfather create the wonderland for him out of all the stories that he was told. After analyzing the films, the similarities they have lie in the knowledge that they

Some parents may approve of their children reading Gothic Literature because it teaches them moral lessons that they may be able to use later on in life. Gothic Literature is a combination of the age of Romanticism and Gothic elements, all tied into one. When parents allow their children to read Gothic Literature, they are opening their children’s minds up and allowing them to go into the dark world and face many challenges and experiences in hopes of overcoming and conquering their fears that they may have once had. Some parents believe that it has a positive effect in children’s minds. They believe that it is used to entertain the mind and teaches children that things are not always what they seem to be. These Gothic novels are said to allow children to escape their own lives, to

Gothic literature has a different way of captivating the reader. Page by Page, gothic themes are present that create mystery and evoke suspense. The Night Circus, a novel by Eric Morgenstern, “The Devil and Tom Walker”, by Washington Irving, and “The Oval Portrait”, by Edgar Allan Poe share two important themes: eerie setting and isolation. All the stories connect through a lesson that passion can become harmful.

“The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe is a fantastic short story, but how does it fit into literature? The story uses elements and techniques that delve into the gothic genre and allows the reader to be introduced to a darker reality. In “The Tell Tale Heart”, gothic elements reveal themselves in the short story through the use of setting and also through the use of characterization. These two elements are key components which demonstrate gothic features and help to classify this story as gothic literature. Murder and the supernatural elements also show that this text can be considered within the gothic genre of literature.

The gothic literary movement is a part of the larger Romantic Movement. Gothic literature shares many of the traits of romanticism, such as the emphasis on emotions and the imagination. Gothic literature goes beyond the melancholy evident in most romantic works, however, and enters into the areas of horror and decay, becoming preoccupied with death. “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe is a powerful example of gothic fiction, whereas James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans serves as the romantic predecessor, illustrating the differences and the similarities between romantic and gothic literature.

Edgar Allan Poe, renowned as the foremost master of the short-story form of writing, chiefly tales of the mysterious and macabre, has established his short stories as leading proponents of “Gothic” literature. Although the term “Gothic” originally referred only to literature set in the Gothic (or medieval) period, its meaning has since been extended to include a particular style of writing. In order for literature to be “Gothic,” it must fulfill some specific requirements. Firstly, it must set a tone that is dark, somber, and foreboding. Next, throughout the development of the story, the events that occur must be strange, melodramatic, or often sinister. Poe’s short stories are