Perfume Analysis Of Perfume

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” This idea is discussed in “What is the Horror Genre” and this essay will analyze “The Tell-Tale Heart” according to the criteria put forth by the author S. Russel. Edgar Allen Poe was one of the most famous horror story writers because he used his life experience and imagination to give us suspenseful characters and events. “The Tell-Tale Heart” provides suspense through the events of murder and disposing the body.

1While the two novels Perfume and Frankenstein have differences they are similar in multiple ways. Both are stories of pain, suffering, non-acceptance, and murder in pursuit of love. Perfume is a story of a boy who is discarded in a fish market, at birth, by his mother while the monster is created with “spare parts” by his creator, Victor Frankenstein. I will attempt to define the lessons Mary Shelly may have wanted us to take from the story of Frankenstein and those that Patrick Suskind offered in Perfume.

In Perfume, Patrick Süskind writes about the life of an extraordinary boy named Grenouille in 18th-century France. The author presents the shifts of existential thinking of his main character throughout the book. The main purpose of living for Grenouille mirrors that of every other human being — to discover the world, with his exception of seeking only the scenting part of it. The series of events in the boy’s life develop his character and the various goals he strives for: survival, odor education, perfume making, peace, own smell, smell extraction, and to die.

As you read or view the movies of these two novels, Perfume, and Frankenstein, you will be able to see how that the two types of murders are the same but different. You would think that a person who kills would have some motivations about it, or a method of why they do the killings, but something they do not. We can start by looking closely at the novels Perfume, The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As you start to read each novel, you can tell that each author had taken the time to put together an outstanding novel. Let’s look at both main characters, in Perfume, you have a child born with the stunning sense of smell and had murdered women in the quest for the best scents that the world has ever smelt. Furthermore, we

Thesis Statement: Gaston Leroux (1910) novel is more in depth as compared to Joel Schumacher (2004) movie adaption of the novel. Gaston Leroux has described and built his characters in a way that it has ranged from a spoilt prima donna Carlotta, to the mysterious Persian from Erik’s past that has been commemorated by numerous memorable adaptations. However regardless of this, it has always managed to perpetuate a strong impact to all literature readers with its remarkable element of Gothic horror literature that feeds off a deeper and darker version than any version that follows.

Throughout the story “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind, Grenouille is presented as an outsider who is a product of both social and moral decay shown through his birth, description of the setting and description of Grenouille’s characteristics.

Gothic tales are dismal and disturbing. “The Feather Pillow”, “Prey”, and “The Black Cat” the main character is broken down by events. The immense pain suffered by each character is intertwined with personal relationship.

Marie de France begins her story by describing Bisclavret, her main character, as well as defining what a werewolf is: “a ferocious beast which, when possessed by this madness, devours men, causes great damage and dwells in vast forests” (de France, 68). She wants to relate the two by allowing the reader to decide what she means by the descriptions and why she would correlate them. De France does a little play and twists the monsters throughout her story. Being a werewolf, Bisclavret may start out as a monster without; and, at first, his wife seems to be so beautiful and innocent, but there lied a monster within her. Later in the story, Bisclavret is no more than a human being, and his wife’s monstrousness shows from within and she transforms into a monster without. The themes gathered from this story are the relationship between love and suffering, justice, and the wife who may be at first likable, but then changes the way that “monsters” are viewed. In order to modify the stereotypes of what a monster is, de France made Bisclavret, a werewolf, the “good guy,” and his beautiful wife, an unforeseen “bad guy.” The wife in the story Bisclavret portrays a trustworthy, loving wife, until she reacts quite differently to him being honest with whom he really is. Her character is the very thing, which makes the reader reconsider the definition of a monster and the truth about monsters within.

Feelings of fear, shock, and utter abhorrence are key elements in Gothic horror literature that have frightened readers since the eighteenth century. American writer, editor, critic, and poet, Edgar Allan Poe became a highly influential figure in the world of literature and is one of the first writers to develop this genre of fiction and horror. In Poe’s popular short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe can be described as a Gothic writer by exploring themes of death and darkness, madness and helplessness, supernaturalism and setting and architecture, in order to reverse the norms of rationality as illogical and unexplainable events generate fear in the reader.

you don't know what he is going to do next, and this creates a lot of

Both of the stories that will be compared in this paper, William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, are very demented novels that contain central premises very estranged to most readers. Though Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a short story, the depth and description contained inside its brief text give it the ability to be compared to a novel such as Frankenstein; primarily it's ability to explain the factors relating to Miss Emily's obsession for keeping her loved ones around after they have deceased. Similarly, in Shelley's Frankenstein, the evil and murderous nature of the beast created by Victor Frankenstein is well described in many angles and shows the prevalent need for the monster to make Victors life

This dissertation will examine and analyse two of the macabre and gothic tales from the English author Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865); The Old Nurses Story (1852) and The Poor Clare (1857). Indicating and demonstrating how representations of mystery and the supernatural are used as vehicles of imagination, expression and exploration into the hidden depths of the female psyche through the use of Gothic fiction within the Victorian era (1837-1901). I intend to delve and explore into the identity of the feminine-self exposing the darker and intimate issues of the female Gothic, otherwise hidden within the oppressive constraints of the female role residing in Victorian society. Applying psychoanalytical examples, I shall discuss themes of the

Suskind creates a narrator with a kaleidoscopic view. The narrator morphs from a gossiper, to reader’s friend, to historian, journalist, and ultimately an accomplice to the murders. With many different personas why does the reader still trust him? There are many sides to the storyteller of Perfume, and the reader may realize too late that there seems to be a fine line between friends to accomplice to murderer.

The novel focuses on a young man named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and the murders he committed. Throughout the novel, he murders young girls for their aroma. In hopes, of accomplishing what he believed to be his life purpose. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the behavior of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille can be analyzed and be linked to that of a sociopath. Although humans are are inherently selfish by nature and choose to cooperate because accomplishing a certain task is in their best interest (John Chapman 2014), no rational human has the mentality of slaughtering another human being for their smell, especially for their own self gratification, like in Grenouille’s case.

As a German writer, the reason for which Patrick Suskind wrote his critically-acclaimed novel, Perfume, in a French setting, about the French, is questionable. However, candidate answers lie in the setting of the novel itself. Mid-18th century France, which is adjacent to Suskind’s Germany, harboured not only a national, but global revolution of politics, economics, and social norms through the French reforms. This had plentiful influence on all aspects of Prussia since the late 17th century (when Germany was known as Prussia) to the present. This stepping stone to a change in practicality lied in the French Revolution and the change of identity that it instilled upon the populace. An exploration of Grenouille and perfume in Perfume reveals their symbolism of the critical transition from religious prominence, to humanistic considerations, to nihilistic extremes that ensued national and global chaos after the French Revolution to represents its influence on Germany and its constituent populace.