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    race. Instead Ultron comes out to be a robot the wants to destroy humans for their way of living, and by not having a perfect live but instead making a worst environment to live in. In the movie the Byronic Hero is betrayed as Tony Stark, of some characteristics that but the elements of a Byronic Hero and Tony Stark have in common are that both have a set of beliefs which he would not let anybody change his mind about them, in addition how he has inner conflicts that he pounders and wrestles with

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    analogy between Maxim de Winter and Bluebeard is that both characters hide a dark secret . 37 4.3.4. Psychological Thrills: Obsession Rebecca as a reflection of its era's literary fashion includes many psychological elements. All the main characters has a psychological struggle and repressed fears which turn to psychological diseases like obsession. Obsession leads to many gothic associations like half madness-state, illusions and even nightmares. Starting with the nameless heroine, who comes to

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    What is the meaning of the notion Gothic? This word is generally used in relation to dark elements. In the Word Histories and Mysteries From Abracatadabra to Zeus is stated clearly that: “…Gothic is related to the name Goth used for one of those invading Germanic tribes. The word Gothic, first recorded in 1611 in a reference of the language of the Goths, was extended in sense in several ways, meaning “Germanic”, “medieval, not classical”, “barbarous” and also an architectural style that was not

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    What Characters Do We Meet in The First Four Chapters of Jane Eyre And What Are They Like? First, we meet Jane, she is a smart, quick-witted girl who seems to be on a journey of becoming a strong willed young woman. She lives with her aunt and cousins who spend their time oppressing Jane. Aunt Reed seems to see Jane more as a nuisance that has been laid on her by her late husband. John Reed seems to be one of the main oppressors along with his mother, he both physically harms Jane and verbally abuses

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    Jane Eyre is the typical little girl, except she has one special circumstance: she’s an orphan. Living under the roof of her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her three cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana, Jane is often mistreated. One day, at Gateshead, the name of her residence, John Reed punishes her by throwing a book at her and hitting her head. Jane yells at him, and tells him how wicked and cruel he is (Bronte 15). Mrs. Reed comes in and disciplines her for acting out by sending her to the red room, the

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    Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is written as a satirical mockery of gothic novels, ridiculing the shallow plot of the genre. In order to parody the genre, Austen includes different Gothic elements into the story. The first element that Austen includes is the suspenseful and dramatic feeling of Gothic novels. Another important component in the novel is the young and innocent heroine who encounters a villain. The third element, the setting, has a feeling of gloominess, and everything looks to be decaying

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    Examine the Gothic Elements in the Novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë Gothic literature originated and was very strong at the time of the Romantic Writers Movement. They were very popular and had authors such as Horace Walpole who wrote “The Castle of Oranto”, and novels such as “Frankenstein” and “Dracula“. Gothic novels all had a similarity between each other. They always had typical Gothic features which alleviated the novel in one way or another. For example, most Gothic novels involved

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    Blanche Ingram: Villain?      Blanche Ingram is the most important woman, other than Jane Eyre, in the novel. Arguably, she is the most important antagonist in this book. It is difficult to fathom how an absolutely horrid, conceited, venal, apathetic creature could be so vital to the book; but take her away, the motivation, conflict, and character itself crumbles.           Consider this synopsais: Jane Eyre has not yet come

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    How do Jane’s experiences at Lowood contribute to her development? Before arriving at Lowood Jane lived at Gateshead, with her aunt and three cousins. She was unloved and treated badly, and had already developed a determination to stand up for herself and fight for her independence. The young Jane had baffled Mrs Reed, who could obviously not understand “how for nine years you could be patient and quiescent under any treatment, and in the tenth break out all fire and violence”. At Gateshead

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    Gothic Fiction: The Representation of Evil in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel written by Horace Walpole. It is regarded as the first Gothic novel, initiating a new literary genre which became extremely popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Gothic literature’s desire to explore the unknown, the unexplainable, inexplicable and the terrifying can be seen as a reaction to the Enlightenment’s emphasis on the rational and knowable. The

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