`` The Signalman `` : The Old Nurse 's Story, Saki 's The Open Window, And George

In the novel In a Glass Darkly, author Le Fanu expresses perspectives on the supernatural world through the memoirs of Dr. Hesselius, a physician who studies metaphysical illnesses. The first three short stories, titled “Green Tea,” “The Familiar,” and “Mr. Justice Harbottle,” involve separate patients that Hesselius writes on. Through these stories, the novel expounds themes concerning the supernatural’s effect on the real world, the guilty consciences of the haunted victims, and the ambiguity of the spirits and demons supposedly seen.

Music is suggested many ways to cause her problems between Miss Furnivall and her sister, Miss Maude, rather than aid the sisters in a solution. Both sisters “fell in love with the same man, a foreign musician, whom their father had down from London to play music” (Gaskell 26). The sisters develop a rivalry over the foreigner (Gaskell 27). The foreigner is never given a name because it is suggested that he is not consequential as a person, but rather as a problem between the sisters. As he is of lower rank and not British, he is developed to play on Victorian fears, and social

Lyn Di Iorio and Laura Restrepo in their respective novels have managed to provide an overview that how supernatural and mystical powers and entities can change the life and perspective of individuals. Both of the novels entitled as Outside the Bones and Delirium are having a similar theme of conventionality and ghostliness.

In all of Gothic Literature, many strategies are used to give the reader chills during his or her downtime. Themes like Entrapment and supernatural forces are displayed throughout this genre of writing to further portray an overlaying message. Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Horacio Quiroga use Entrapment and Supernatural powers to provide an intense feeling in the reader involving scenarios beyond conventional limitations.

The novel’s protagonists, and by extension its narrator, consider it unnatural for a woman not to be submissive; thus, they depict her as controlling and villainous. In indication of this belief, one of the patients refers to his friends as “victims of a matriarchy” (63). The novel’s narrator, as he has been influenced by his fellow patients, is inherently biased against powerful women; he admits to his bias when he says that the events that he reports are “the truth even if [they] didn't happen” (8). In this quote, the Chief confirms that, while he is accurately representing his own feelings about Nurse Ratched and the ward, he is not accurately recording the actual events. The Nurse can be considered a controlling matriarch or monster from Bromden’s point of view, however, she is not necessarily so from an unbiased

“The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” each depict a personal viewpoint of mentally ill characters, who both differ and are alike in various aspects of “madness.” Edgar Allan Poe’s character denies a presence of madness entirely, yet blames a physical ailment instead. As deeply disturbed as the character seems because of the eye, he abruptly decides to eradicate what he believes is the primary issue rather than considering attempting to heal his own “disease.” Charlotte Gilman’s story differs in the sense that the character somewhat acknowledges her mental instability, but is similar in how she eventually attempts to act upon it. While the character acknowledges her mental problem, the progression of the story shows her problem worsening due to the conditions she is placed in because of her feeling of entrapment. Each character’s “madness” is fundamentally the same, but differs on the basis of how they accept it, and act upon it.

Charlotte Gilman, through the first person narrator, speaks to the reader of the stages of psychic disintegration by sharing the narrator's heightened perceptions: "That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don't care--there is something strange about the house--I can feel it" (304). The conflicting

Pieces of literature often show relationships involving the supernatural. In Macbeth (1606), the supernatural plays an extremely important part in the structure of the plot. It provides a substructure for action, a deeper look into Macbeth’s character and it affects the impact of numerous scenes. In contrast, in Susan Hill’s novel, The Woman in Black (1983), Susan shows how the supernatural can be used in an attempt to make the reader frightened, she attempts to do this through the ghost of Jennet Humfryes who is trying to seek revenge and solace for the injustice that was done to her in her past life and to her son. Once again, the supernatural plays an integral part throughout the story with the ghost of Jennet Humfryes and what occurs at Eel Marsh house. While over three hundred and seventy years separate the two pieces of literature, both explore how the supernatural affects the protagonist’s sanity and both pieces of literature feature the supposed involvement of ghosts which are widely used in plays or novels that feature the supernatural. However, whereas Shakespeare illustrates the destructive effects the supernatural can have on a protagonist’s (Macbeth’s) decision making and how an honourable and well respected man can turn into a dishonourable and largely hated man whom people generally despise. Susan Hill demonstrates the effect of when the supernatural affects a lawyer who doesn’t end up resorting to doing anything dishonourable and who doesn’t deserve the

Unexplainable singularities are inevitable. Society does not have the solution to every dilemma or anomaly that transpires. Undeniably, two fields of study that still has unidentified surfaces are the human psyche and supernatural activity. Scientists and researchers, regarding the psychology of the mind and supernatural happenstance, uncover new data and statistics every day. A psychological disorder can develop at any junction in a person’s life and encompass peculiar behavior in the way a person feels, thinks, and acts. In the novella, “The Queen of Spades” by Alexander Pushkin there are several key elements that provide the reader with enough data to formulate that the main character’s mental stability triggers the manifestation of the late Countess. Conversely, Stanley Kubrick’s movie adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, “The Shining,” demonstrates strong indications of the supernatural.

In the four part short story “Queen of Spades” by Alexander Pushkin this proves the idea that the true message and moral is left in question with a supernatural story.

     As a little girl might be alone in a strange place, Marian is scared. She goes to the nursing home slowly, and pays attention only “vaguely” to what goes on until the climax. Everywhere she goes in the nursing home, she is rushed and shoved and pulled about

The Supernatural, a manifestation attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature (Literary Jewels), examples of that would be ghosts, angels, and gigantic human sized bugs. The story containing supernatural elements may have a religious purpose, such the role of angels and demons in Islam, Judaism and Christianity; or the supernatural elements may portray notions about reality such as issues in social justice, discrimination, or alienation and the sense of belonging. Of course, there are many ways to incorporate supernatural elements in novels and movies, but we will focus on two works that describe the issues and factors of alienation and belonging. Franz Kafka and Bernard Malamud are two talented authors

The thought experiment that we were given is known as the “Trolley Problem” and it is split into two parts. In the first part of the problem we have an empty out of control trolley going down the rail track. If the trolley continues to go down the track it will run over and kill 5 unfortunate people who are tied down to the tracks. You are too far away to get to the track but you do have the power to flip a lever that will change the route of the trolley to a second track. This second track has a single person tied to it. So now you have a decision to make. Do you to pull the lever or do you not to pull the lever? The second part of the experiment puts you in a similar scenario. This time there is only the single track with 5 people tied to it, but this time you and an onlooker are on a bridge above the rail track. The 5 people are going to be run

The very setting of the fireside at which Griffin's guests swap stories establishes an atmosphere with which many of us are familiar. We can all relate to sitting around a fire exchanging ghost stories. By employing this particular narrative frame James encourages the reader to abandon their scepticism and give themselves over to a belief in the ghosts. The reader shares in the eagerness of the guests to be frightened; to be delighted by horror. Upon seeing Douglas' distress at the thought of the tale he must tell, and its "dreadful - dreadfulness", one of the female guests actually cries, "Oh how delicious!"5

In his essay on tragedy, Arthur Miller once wrote "the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing--his sense of personal dignity." This insightful view of the common man 's ability to be a tragic hero is emblematic of the female protagonist, Mrs. Alving, in Henrik Ibsen 's controversial drama Ghosts. In her fight to pull her family together and become the archetypal wife Mrs. Alving learns of life 's tragedies- she loses everything she loves and all she has built in the name of dignity.